Shooting Challenge: Use Your Smartphone

Shooting Challenge: Use Your Smartphone

A new wave of smartphones is here, with a new wave of powerful optics behind them. (41 megapixels, anyone?) And to both celebrate and document the new wave of phone photography, we want to photos that have been shot and edited on nothing but your phone.

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8 Skeletal Celebrations Of Día De Muertos

The Day of the Dead celebrates, not only those who’ve passed, but our own mortality. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you adopted its powerful symbol: The human skull.

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Shooting Challenge: Día de Muertos

Shooting Challenge: Día de Muertos

We’re all going to die one day. And no holiday celebrates our fragile mortality with as much gusto as Día de Muertos (Nov 1st-Nov 2nd), when Mexico (and increasingly, the world) remembers friends and family with alters, marigolds, poetry, food, and of course, skulls.

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10 Amazing Jack-O-Lanterns, Carved By You

We’re just a few days away from Halloween, which means many of you spent the weekend Dexter-ing a perfectly innocent pumpkin in the name of tradition.

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Shooting Challenge: Jack-O-Lanters

Shooting Challenge: Jack-O-Lanters

Halloween is upon us, which means all of us must face two truths: 1.) Yes, you are too old to dress up in a sheet to score free candy. 2.) Luckily, you’ll never, ever age out of carving Jack-O-Lanterns.

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11 Photos Of Delicious Fall Foods

Fall isn’t the time for delicate cooking to protect svelter waistlines. It’s roasted and sugared fruits and fats. Winter is coming. But so is dessert.

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Shooting Challenge: Fall Food Porn

Shooting Challenge: Fall Food Porn

A lot of people celebrate the foods of spring—the first green things that sprout from the ground after a thaw. But if spring is about revitalization, autumn is about comfort—sweet and savory spiced foods that fatten you up for winter and pair perfectly with a nap.

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6 Photos Of The Government Shutdown

What happens when the United States is closed? We asked you to show us—to capture both areas shut down by the government and just random things you found abandoned, rusted, and closed. And from here, the US looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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Shooting Challenge: Government Shut Down

Shooting Challenge: Government Shut Down

We’ve all heard, the U.S. government is shut down. And to celebrate the absurdity, we’re going to photograph things that are closed, abandoned, and if you’re really clever, shut down specifically because of the government.

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8 Photos Of Still Life Amidst Turbulence

The world goes by in a blur, but somehow, we keep our composure in the middle of it. This week’s Shooting Challenge participants celebrate that. And race cars. Plenty of race cars.

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