3. SWANSEA (March 5) -- I visited the former Swansea Mall for an installment of my "As I See It" column, on dying malls. Will Saint-Ilme, a pastor, and his congregation have established His Providence Church there in what used to be a Macy's. Here, before a service, he reads the Bible. I ignored Christ on the cross, and got down on the floor with an ultra-wide angle lens and a very slow shutter speed to get everything from the pastor's hands to the original Macy's skylight in focus. I put the camera on my chest, stopped breathing, prayed, and repeated the same mantra I always recite in my head: I am a human tripod. -Stan Grossfeld
4. NANTUCKET (February 13) -- This is the Brant Point Lighthouse on Nantucket during a snowstorm. The wind whips sideways, and tears drain into my viewfinder. My nose is running quicker than the tide and my toes are freezing. I want to run to the nearby car where the motor is on and the heat is set to Equator, but I am thinking about my Globe colleague, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Craig Walker. He has the fortitude of Job. He would stand there for two hours, a human icicle, waiting for an extra something -- a bird to fly by or a ferry to round the bend. I curse Walker, the perfectionist, out loud. On cue, a seagull glides into the composition just as the lighthouse twinkles. Thank you, Craig Walker. -Stan Grossfeld
5. PROVINCETOWN (July 18) -- During Bear Week in Provincetown, I found myself at the highly anticipated Solid Gold Tea Dance at the Boatslip Resort & Beach Club, a beachfront hotel and local institution. Jason Purcell was impossible to miss -- towering close to 7 feet tall in his gold platform boots -- as he kissed his husband, David. I loved discovering that their story had begun at a Bear Week in Spain nearly a decade ago. -Erin Clark
6. BOSTON (July 4) -- I was photographing the crowd at a 2024 Boston Pops event when I spotted this powerful moment between Andrea Dacosta and her 4-year-old son, Jeremias. There was something so genuine about how she beamed with pride and her little boy's pure joy as they danced together. -Erin Clark
7. LEWISTON, MAINE (October 3) -- Lilian, 2, and her sister, Anna, lost their father a year before I took this photo to commemorate the anniversary of the horrific shootings in Lewiston, Maine. It claimed 18 lives at Schemengees Bar & Grille and the Just-In-Time bowling alley on October 25, 2023. But to me, this photo also speaks to hope and possibility: Lilian appears to be floating in the clouds while autumn leaves fall around her. When I look at it, I wonder: What does her future hold? -Craig F. Walker
8. CONCORD, VERMONT (January 4) -- Lynda Bluestein was a Connecticut woman with terminal cancer who wanted to end her life on her own terms. She had successfully sued the State of Vermont to allow out-of-state residents to access medical aid in dying there without having to first establish residency. Lynda and her family allowed the Globe and a small documentary team to be with her during the last months of her life and, ultimately, her death. Being there as her family gathered around her bedside to say goodbye was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to document, but I leaned on the knowledge that Lynda, who was an absolute force of nature and a lifelong activist, wanted her story told. I knew it was my responsibility to do her story justice while being as compassionate and respectful as possible. Lynda had said, "You don't grieve unless you love someone," and that love is evident in this image. -Jessica Rinaldi
9. QUINCY (July 26) -- Reporter Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio and I met this family of six from Haiti, who had been dropped off at the Wollaston MBTA station because shelters had reached capacity. In this photo, the mother was walking back and forth with her sons, trying to keep them occupied as the father was making phone calls trying to find them a place to sleep for the night. "I don't like to sleep in the street. I like to sleep at home," the youngest, a 5-year-old boy, told us. They couldn't afford a hotel and ultimately decided to take the T back to the airport to seek shelter in the terminals. After this story was published, we received an email from a reader who said it had spurred her and her husband to volunteer to temporarily host families in their home. Receiving an email like that was incredibly powerful, and made me feel that we were doing important work. -Kayla Bartkowski
10. BOSTON (April 26) -- It was my first night covering the pro-Palestine encampments at Northeastern University. I was supposed to go home around 3 a.m., but there was talk of an incoming police raid. Sure enough, just before dawn, reporter Alexa Coultoff and I saw officers putting on riot gear in a nearby parking lot. Around 7 a.m., they started detaining the protesters. I found a spot behind the barricade and took this shot. -Andrew Burke-Stevenson
11. DEDHAM (May 6) -- This was taken on day five of the Karen Read murder trial, during a break in the cross-examination of a Canton police lieutenant. The family of the victim, John O'Keefe, is in the gallery behind Read, but she often seemed oblivious to their presence. Over her shoulder, you can see O'Keefe's brother, Paul, watching her. -Pat Greenhouse
12. BURLINGTON, VERMONT (April 8) -- I lost a lot of sleep planning to shoot the total eclipse. I had been driving around the Burlington, Vermont, area all day, trying to find a perfect vantage point. I ended up going with everyone else to Lake Champlain, because I knew I wanted people in the frame to show the wonder of the whole experience. -Danielle Parhizkaran
13. DORCHESTER (April 8) -- Rare earth events are major gifts to photojournalists. But finding a frame and a decisive moment in a setting such as this is a lot of pressure. I didn't know where, in the course of the partial eclipse, there would be the most emotion and tension, so I was on high alert the whole time. (And yes, I also had low-level anxiety that one of the kids would look at the sun without their eclipse glasses on.) I was drawn to this 4-year-old boy, Kingston Dubusson, because he had much more excitement animating his face than the older kids around him -- the viewer's eye goes right to the little boy's big emotions. -Suzanne Kreiter
14. CAMBRIDGE (April 10) -- This was a bee that pollinated orchids. It's impaled inside a specimen tray at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, one of 7.5 million insects in the collection. I set up a little bug studio at the museum over several days, doing little bug portraits lit as if they were little business executives posing for their annual reports. I used a macro lens, which can magnify tiny objects, bringing you to a place you can't really see with the naked eye. Each new bug I photographed would surprise me when I first looked at it through that lens, revealing shiny, hairy details I didn't know were there. Business executives should be so colorful. -Lane Turner
15. WEST MONROE, LOUISIANA (August 30) -- This was a story on a troubled Steward Family Hospital, Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, Louisiana. I photographed the hospital, city, and family members of victims lost. The loss of a hospital affects the entire community, no matter your age, faith, or cultural background. With this picture, I was trying to offer our readers a slice of that community and a sense of place. -Craig F. Walker
16. MALDEN (September 22) -- Gerrilee Thou rinses off her 2-year-old son, Ace, at the kitchen sink in their home. Thou, a mother of six, is struggling to make ends meet while her husband, Vibol, is detained by immigration authorities. -Erin Clark
17. AYER (August 30) -- This was the last day before Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer closed, a casualty of Steward Health Care's bankruptcy proceedings. Some of the hospital emergency room staff had asked us to come in on their last day of work. I took a small, noiseless camera because management didn't want any media present in the hospital. We were asked to leave, but not before I took this portrait of emergency room nurse Kelly Miller. -David L. Ryan
18. BOSTON (June 17) -- Celtics guard Payton Pritchard has become known for making incredible buzzer-beating three-point shots from half court. This time, I zoomed out to include the crowd's reaction when Jayson Tatum entered the frame, leaping for a celebratory chest bump with Pritchard. -Barry Chin
19. BOSTON (June 17) -- I was able to gain access to the Celtics locker room thanks to my editor, Kevin Martin, and because I knew it was a struggle to get inside I was anxious about messing it up. The Celtics had just won an NBA championship, so I was jostling with the TV cameras and other photographers. We were all elbowing each other as Jayson Tatum had his time with his trophy. -Danielle Parhizkaran
20. FORT MYERS, FLORIDA (February 14) -- I have covered Red Sox Spring Training off and on for over 30 years, so on my first day of camp I saw this new drill setup. I was immediately drawn to the stark white board, the red uniform and the X marks the spot targets. It reminded me of a giant Tic Tac board. -Barry Chin
21. BOSTON (June 8) -- I've covered the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park for decades. But only now can I finally say I photographed a baseball game that was totally entertaining throughout every inning. I wasn't shooting the Red Sox, but the scrappy, sophomoric Savannah Bananas, an exhibition team turning baseball into zany, high-energy theater. A sold-out crowd of 37,000-plus fans watched as they played against the (even scrappier) Party Animals. The game at times took a back seat to ballet, a Rockettes-style kick line, and some breathtaking acrobatics. I shot more frames than I would have at a dozen Sox games. -John Tlumacki
22. CAMBRIDGE (November 23) -- Harvard vs. Yale is a football rivalry so old they just call it "The Game." In one of the key plays of this year's game, Yale's David Pantelis makes a 45-yard reception in front of an incredulous Yale bench. Yale ultimately produced a 34-29 upset. -Barry Chin
23. BOSTON (March 17) -- I liked this scene of a Boston Latin hockey player after they defeated Tewksbury in a division championship as opposed to the rest of the team celebration because it's just a nice solitary moment for this one player. You know his teammates are on the ice with him because their gear is thrown about, but this was just his moment he was taking in for himself. -Danielle Parhizkaran
24. MARBLEHEAD (January 12) -- The Marblehead Fire Department lit a stack of spent Christmas trees for its annual Christmas tree bonfire and, as they went up, the sparks began to fly toward the crowd. I saw Denarii Reynolds out of the corner of my eye. He was dancing and cheering as the embers flew, so I sprinted over to make a frame. He was so enthralled that I really don't think he noticed I was there. Sometimes at an event like this what you're looking for is the person who will echo what the whole experience feels like. Denarii was definitely that person. -Jessica Rinaldi
25. JAMAICA PLAIN (April 13) -- The Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain removed the offices of their rectory and built apartments for those fleeing violence in Haiti. Here Yzael Telemaque Alfred, 3, plays with his mother, Angeline, in one of the bedrooms. The families make community meals and the place is immaculate. In Haiti, they used to hear gunshots and have death-threats. In Jamaica Plain, they heard laughter and love. And, this story has a happy ending: the dad got a job and the family found a permanent home in Lynn. -Stan Grossfeld
26. MASHPEE (July 29) -- These women are my sheroes. The Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage (OLAUG) are clearing Cape Cod's ponds of beer cans, bottles, and God knows what, making it safer for people and turtles and other wildlife. After an exhausting hour of searching, there is a scream and the women bring a toilet to the surface. Then there is another scream. A full-sized eel who was making its home in the bowl escaped by slithering between founder Susan Baur's legs. She joked about it. I would've set a new land record for crossing over the Sagamore Bridge. -Stan Grossfeld
27. NAHANT (July 14) -- This was a fun assignment, made better by the participants at the Nahant Tennis Club actually dressing up in period outfits and taking it seriously. I wanted to show just how old the sport is, with it being the 150th anniversary of the first lawn tennis game in America. Only their sneakers show this is actually present day. -Danielle Parhizkaran
28. BOSTON (April 9) -- On Opening Day of the 2024 season, Red Sox infielder David Hamilton flubbed a single hit by Cedric Mullins of the Baltimore Orioles. It may have been an omen: The Sox would go on to lead the American League in errors this season. I often think that great sports photos are made with prepared luck. It was the eighth inning, and Mullins had hit the ball to the left on previous at bats. So, I pre-focused on the shortstop, hoping to catch a diving defensive play. I was prepared -- and I got lucky. -Matthew J. Lee
29. BOSTON (May 18) -- For years, maybe even decades, I would see the masts rising above the boats at the Savin Hill Yacht Club from my car window as I drove down Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester. Each time, I would say to myself, That scene needs a person. That moment finally came on a cloudy day this past May. I promptly made a U-turn and took some pictures. -Jonathan Wiggs
30. BOSTON (June 15) -- At FAN EXPO Boston, I stumbled upon Gumby having what looked like an existential crisis by the window of the Hynes Convention Center. I couldn't tell where he was looking through his massive cartoon eyes, either taking a snooze or staring directly at me while I just powered through some frames. -Erin Clark