My favorite photographs make me feel something. They stimulate my emotions and bring me closer to the moments in the scene. Sometimes a photograph can elicit joy, understanding, or a sense of intimacy that helps the viewer relate to it on a level invisible to the eye.

Intimacy isn’t always about physical proximity. Intimacy can emerge in a photograph of a father and his children talking while roasting marshmallows or a fluffy gosling cuddled into the safety of its mother’s feathers. It can even be found in the disconnected intimacy that appears in cities where thousands of strangers are next to each other.

Each week as we select images from the daily edits on Your Shot, I’m