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    Cindy Murray lives in the mountains of North Carolina, where she enjoys witnessing wild-turkey parades and firefly spectaculars. She took this month’s cover photograph at an ice-cream shop in Zakopane, Poland, where she volunteered as a language tutor for high school students.

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    Laura Ferraguto works in copyright licensing in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She enjoys listening to eighties music, wandering through meadows, and experimenting with alternative photographic processes. Her cover photo is of a cinnamon fern fiddlehead. (lauraferraguto.com)

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    Kennon Guerry took this month’s cover photo, in which her son is pictured on a playground blacktop. She is a lover of good light and good dark—both of which are plentiful where she lives in Portland, Oregon. (kennonguerryphotography.com)

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    Benjamin Margalit took this month’s cover photo of an osprey while hiking the Legacy Trail in Sarasota, Florida. After a career in commercial photography, he now enjoys long barefoot walks on the beach and biking on trails with a camera or two in tow. (margalitgallery.com)

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    Jayanta Roy is a photographer based in Kolkata, India. During monsoon season he took this month’s cover photo from the banks of the Ichamati River, which serves as a natural border between India and Bangladesh. Instagram: @jayantaroy_.

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    Nizar Ajanovic took this month’s cover image during a barn dance at the Double Staple Ranch in Patagonia, Arizona. The dancers are married horse trainers and barrel racers. Like the country he was born in, Ajanovic has two first names. He’ll tell you the other one if you buy him a cortado.

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    Cole Thompson took this month’s cover photo at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park in California. It’s from a series exploring the nature of solitude called “The Lone Man.” (colethompsonphotography.com)

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    Teronica Yvette took this month’s cover photo at Dearborn Park in Atlanta, Georgia. She has pursued photography ever since her aunt, the head cheer coach, bought her a disposable camera after a failed sixth-grade tryout to be the school mascot.

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    Mark Montgomery took this month’s cover photo in December 2023 outside a market in Dolores, Colorado, during a snowstorm. The dogs, Midge and Frank, are French mastiffs.

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    Robert Gyori is a photographer and retired architect. He took this month’s cover image on Pine Street in San Francisco, as people waited for a bus.

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