ITHACA, N.Y. — Last week, The Ithaca Voice solicited pictures from local photographers to provide a view of Tompkins County as they saw it this year, the type of work that wouldn’t usually appear in our articles.

The response has been massive. Dozens of people have submitted their pictures from life around Ithaca and Tompkins County in 2023, from landscapes to performances to life downtown to local wildlife.

Here are submissions from the first 20 photographers, roughly in the order in which they were submitted. A second article is available here with galleries for the remaining pictures submitted to avoid overwhelming our website with the images.

You can click any image in any gallery below to enlarge it and navigate the gallery that way. Each gallery is listed under the name of the person who submitted the pictures. The Ithaca Voice would like to express our gratitude to every person who contributed to the first year of this experiment.


Nate Cowles

Barbara Adams

Emily Kennedy

James Sharpsteen

Kathryn Grabenstein

Robert Grant

Christi Golden

Roger Langley

Edna Brown

Randi Millman-Brown

Lisa Skrubis

Jenai Rossow

Kris Altucher

Laura Kozlowski

Carol Whitlow

Larry Baum

Zach Ulibarri

Sarah Flenders

Harry Durgin

Mark Syvertson

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Matt Butler is the Editor in Chief of The Ithaca Voice. He can be reached by email at mbutler@ithacavoice.org.