For almost 13 years, you have been sharing your photos with the Your Shot community. Our mission is to tell stories collaboratively with our photographers while harboring an educational and welcoming community for you to improve your photography. These 70 selections were curated from over 1.2 million photo uploads in 2018 from photographers around the world who are just like you. Our photographers always display an impressive variety of photographic styles and it all starts with picking up the camera closest to them. So, what are you waiting for? You can make these images, too. We’ll see you in 2019.
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Your Shot photographer Aya Okawa captured this image of a long exposure of the San Francisco city skyline emerging from the fog at sunrise.
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Environment
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History & Culture
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Science
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