This week has been a wonderful whirlwind for the Your Shot community. We published our first ever yearly round up of your best photos of 2018 and on that same day we published our 150th story!

This week’s edit features a handful of striking portraits that came through uploads that immediately struck me. Then I started to worry, “what if the edit is portrait heavy?” Then I remembered a really lovely thing Maggie Steber said during her Not Just a Face assignment she ran on Your Shot this past summer: “You can make a portrait of anything.” That has stayed with me since the moment she said it.

I think photography can frequently be restricting