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A tour group travel by camel in the early evening before the sun sets in the Merzouga sand dunes in the Sahara Desert, Morocco on March 10.
Roberta Edmonson of Mount Prospect
A pug named Merlin enjoys the warm sun on a chilly winter afternoon in Schaumburg during January of 2012. He has since lost a long battle with blindness and diabetes.
Craig Hobday of Schaumburg
Kayaks wait to make their way from Bearskin Neck around Cape Ann in Rockport, Mass. in June of 2012.
Kelley Dorner of Grayslake
Three-year-old Mirella Anzalone of Mount Prospect makes silly faces into the Bean at Cloud Gate in Chicago. She was celebrating a chilly start to spring break on March 27.
Kirsty Anzalone of Mount Prospect
Holding a computer tablet with colorfully manicured hands, a woman takes pictures during the Buffalo Grove High School graduation on May 31 at the school.
Drew Kapinos of Buffalo Grove
Red-winged blackbird sits on a branch on April 14th at Half Day Forest Preserve in Lincolnshire.
Sue Matsunaga of Vernon Hills
This "smiling" frog was very cooperative when I wanted to take his portrait, remaining in place for several minutes. The photo was taken this May at Cantigny Park's Idea Garden in Wheaton, IL.
Mike Weimer of St. Charles
I took this photo of a Duesenberg automobile at the Volo Auto Museum. You can see the leather wrapped shock absorbers inside the front wheels. Elegance shows from every vantage point.
Milton Hoskins of Hampshire
Three flamingos compose themselves perfectly at Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.
Tom Crawford, from Carol Stream
This is an unaltered picture with no special effects or editing whatsoever. It was shot on the spur-of-the-moment, out of a hallway window. The sun was skating across the surface of our pond and, without any intent at art, I pushed the lens as far as I could against the window screen so I could see what I was shooting. The sun and the screen created the picture.
Ed Bulak, from Naperville
I photographed this Iguana sun bathing on a pile of rocks at Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.
Tom Crawford, from Carol Stream
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