It's been a difficult choice, the submitted images evoke such a wide spectrum of emotions, from hilarious to profound.
Honourable Mentions in no particular order:
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Markus, the breviary, a lifetime of prayers is in this little book, this image should be seen in the context of the gallery it is published in.
![](https://pbase.com/image/114691826/medium.jpg)
Flo, the young soldiers that are not coming back. Will the world ever learn...?
![](https://pbase.com/image/162311402/medium.jpg)
Nature's bounty has to be kept somewhere.
![](https://pbase.com/image/170718347/medium.jpg)
Vijay, why wait until it is over...? One of many excellent images in the New York Under Siege Gallery.
![](https://pbase.com/image/163895701/medium.jpg)
Paul, it is really funny in a perverse way.
Three top places, a coin toss between the three images:
![](https://pbase.com/image/148929696/medium.jpg)
3rd place
Paul again, delightfully politically incorrect, we need more of it, PC makes the world so predictably boring.
![](https://pbase.com/image/111694481/medium.jpg)
2nd place
Another image by Flo, it is simply hilarious.
![](https://pbase.com/image/148499085/medium.jpg)
1st place
David, despite the tragedy and devastation of the material world the human spirit is stronger. Witnessing the unfolding tragedy in Ukraine, we need to remember this.