Your best photographs of the year

We invited you, dear readers, to share your BEST photograph of the year.

We have been flooded with e-mails. Thank you for your overwhelming response! We look forward to many more photographs.

I saw 'our man' looking through a broken door during one of my visits to an animal shelter with my daughter. We were moving around feeling like a Pied Piper, petting and hugging the inmates following us, when I turned and saw this one looking at me with hope in his eyes for the warmth and the goodies we were sharing with the others buddies," says Nupur Kohli of this photograph.

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Share your UNIQUE, ORIGINAL, ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME photographs. They can be FUNNY, they can be TOUCHING or just PLAIN WEIRD -- your BEST SCENES that are captured on a lens for posterity.

Simply e-mail your photograph to getahead@rediff.co.in (Subject line: My best photograph of 2013).

Please mail us ONLY ONE photograph that you think is your best.

Also make sure to include a brief write-up of where and when you clicked the photograph and what makes it your best/favourite photograph of the year.

We will publish the best entries right here on Rediff.com and India Abroad.

NOTE: Mails with multiple photographs will not be considered.

Disclaimer: The photographs featured in this series are, to the best of our knowledge, original entries submitted by readers. Rediff.com does not assume any responsibility for their originality

Sacheen K's shot of Horseshoe Bend, Page, Arizona.

"The vantage point is quite dangerous as it is not fenced and one has to get to the very edge of jutting rocks to get a good picture of the full landscape. I setup a tripod at this very edge and took a few pictures with different exposures and then combined these pictures into one using one of the HDR softwares. The attached picture is the result of that," he says.

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Pratyush captures this amazing sunset at Kausani, Uttarakhand.

"It was really fascinating, watching the sunset against the backdrop of the mighty Himalayas," he says.

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Sumit Kumar has titled this pic shot at Girgaum Chowpatty, near Marine Drive, Mumbai: Posing Pigeons

"It is one of my best pics as it captures the sheer innocence in their eyes," he says.

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Ajaykumar Kulkarni's shot of the Eniyar temple complex, Aihole, Bagalkot district, Karnataka.

"This is a beautiful sculptural work involving a complex of eight temples. The lighting and shadow effect makes the picture more beautiful," he says.

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Abhishek Peeyush's shot of a rickshaw puller in Patiala, Punjab.

"I was bowled over by Shanty Singh's outfit and also by the joy with which he was riding his rickshaw," he says.

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Siddharth Bartakke captures this tranquil scene at Bamnoli Lake, Satara, Maharashtra.

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Rajashekar's shot of Jog Falls, Shimoga, Karnataka.

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