Brian Merritt on WNYC. So if you're a regular listener, you know that each year we invite you to send us the best photo you took this year near the end of the year. That's just been sitting on your phone.

And when we first started doing this, phone cameras were fine, serviceable. Now they're

sophisticated enough that you can capture some truly extraordinary images, as you all know.

And as we've done in recent years, we've invited professional photographers to help

us look through the hundreds of photos that you sent in and choose their favorites. And as always,

the results say something not just about photography, but about intimacy and attention to detail

and the poetry of our visual world and maybe even what images are relevant in the particular year.

So today we're going to talk about the three winning photos that we've chosen for this year.

You can see them as we discuss them.

Just go to brianlarrowshow.org or wn yc.org.

Click on Brian Lairor Show.

And you'll find today's episode page,

easiest way, Brian Lairashow.org.

And we'll also post a gallery of the top photos, our judges, selected from all the

submissions we received this year, not just these top three.

So joining me now are our judges, Dave Shelley, co-founder and creative producer at Photoville,

and David Gonzalez, journalist, photographer, and co-founder of the photo collective, Seis del Sour.

Dave and David, welcome back to WNYC.

You have the double Davids today.

That's right.

It's Dave and David Day.

So Dave, Shelley, before we get to the photos, just remind our listeners about Photoville,

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