The sun glints off the hood ornament on an old Dodge truck in Taos, New Mexico.

Susan Birr of Carpentersville

I was driving along a rural road in central Illinois just after a late afternoon storm. When the sun came out the light was just amazing.

Tom Nicol of Geneva

A monarch butterfly on rests on some zinnias at the Chicago Botanic Gardens.

Deb Marak of Arlington Heights

An image used for a birth announcement of Kathryn "Katy" Maag using the natural light from a picture window as she lays in a shell shaped bowl.

Jessica Maag of Des Plaines

An early morning shot of the moon over a pond in the Barrington Lakes Apartments.

Rick Reeves of Hoffman Estates

A sunflower glows as the sun shines through it in a garden at Sylvan Lake.

Mike Trahan of Mundelein

A shadow of a seagull's webbed feet are visible on a table umbrella as he peers over the edge at Sheerwater Restaurant's patio in the Hotel Del Coronado near San Diego.

Erika Bauserman of Green Oaks

A majestic scene of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Montana last June.

Amy Amend of Lake Villa

This is a Skipper Moth that landed on a Zinnia.

Linda Bowman of Roselle