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A conductor sells tickets to passengers aboard a Mukachevo-Lviv elektrichka, regional electric trains in Ukraine. Today's daily shot is a submission from Artur Abramiv's journey undertaken in 2018, where he photographed commuters who typically take the trip to return from Carpathian Mountains. He describes the atmosphere as "unique," as riders quickly get comfortable with each other and indulge in dining, drinking and playing a game of cards.

Artur Abramiv

It takes two hours and 40 hairpin bends to reach the plains of Pollachi from Valparai. Mohan Dravid took the route last August and captured the scenic vistas of Aliyar dam and Anaimalai Hills tucked in Tamil Nadu's Western Ghats.

Mohan Dravid

Pradeep Rama often stopped by New York on his business trips to Seattle. During one such trip in October 2012, he decided to tour the Statue of Liberty. En route to Liberty Island, he clicked a photograph of an inbound ferry and the iconic monument in one frame.

Pradeep Rama

As Susnata Majumdar set out to capture the historic Eden Gardens from outside, he was rewarded with the city's famed yellow taxi acting as subject instead to his frame.

Susnata Majumdar

On an evening stroll past Willingdon Island in Kochi, Gaurav Paul photographed a boat ferrying a crowd of office-goers back home.

Gaurav Paul

An afternoon walk through the streets of Kyoto led Soumyadeep Mukherjee past a candid moment between a rickshaw-puller and his passengers.

Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Anupam Dhote's photograph of the famous Shivneri bus on the scenic Mumbai-Pune Expressway is our entry for today's daily shot.

Anupam Dhote

Monika Chauhan watched transfixed as a group of trishaws brightened up the famous Bugis Street in Singapore with their rhapsody of colours.

Monika Chauhan

A bus ride from Delhi to Kaza will always remain special to Anshul Gusain as it took him to a destination from where he would see the Milky Way for the first time.

Anshul Gusain

From the edge of a canal in Hoi An, Rohin Bakshi watched colourful lanterns lighting up the night, as boats carrying groups of tourists made their rounds.

Rohin Bakshi

Before hopping aboard a boat in Dawki, Suvasis Pyne photographed a deep blue Umngot river from a vantage point.

Suvasis Pyne

A poster for a dating site tints the window of a subway train on line 2 of the Paris metro. Sebastien Durand, who captured today's daily shot in August 2019, was fascinated by the contrast as seen between busy commuters and the need for social relations expressed by the advertisement.

Sebastien Durand

Kolkata's yellow taxis are as iconic as the city's Howrah Bridge. Soumyajit Dey photographed the two in one frame on a November morning in 2018.

Soumyajit Dey

Anujit Sarkar photographed an arch on the underside of a footbridge during a gondola ride across Venice's canals in the summer of 2015. The result was a dramatic shot of tourist-filled boats and a couple romantically engaged in a wedding photoshoot.

Anujit Sarkar

On her trip to Hungary in November 2018 with her husband, Meenakshi Kothari photographed a cruise boat across the Danube river with the grand Buda Castle in the backdrop.

Meenakshi Kothari

At Thailand's Maeklong Railway Market, you'll hear the train long before you see it. During his trip to the country last February, Gopikrishna Narla was most fascinated by how the tents of shops folded as if they were rows of falling dominoes making way for the train, and sprang right back up after it passed.

Gopikrishna Narla

Manash Mahanta's submission of a boat man ferrying a shikara in search of passengers in Srinagar's Dal Lake makes the cut for today's daily shot.

Manash Mahanta

Aboard a launch that ferries passengers between Mumbai's Gateway of India and Elephanta Caves, Debmalya Das watched seagulls gawk and glide over the Arabian Sea.

Debmalya Das

Tathagata Ghosh set out on a morning photo walk at a riverside in Guskara, West Bengal. He photographed a bus, the town's main public transport, crossing a bridge.

Tathagata Ghosh

Himani Shah Manek’s photograph of New York's Times Square captures its frenzy and frames the city’s iconic yellow taxi, making it our pick for today’s daily shot.

Himani Shah Manek

Wasim Salim's photo of a hand-pulled rickshaw in Kolkata, one of Bengal's oldest transports whose numbers have reduced through the years, is our entry for today's daily shot.

Wasim Salim

Shashwat Narain spent his honeymoon in Moscow attending the FIFA World Cup 2018. In between matches, he and his wife used the city's iconic tram network to go exploring.

Shashwat Narain

Standing by the ghats near Guwahati's Sukreswar Temple, Chayan Das watched a wooden boat ferry passengers as the rays of a dipping sun danced off the Brahmaputra.

Chayan Das

On the last day of his trip to Shimla in March 2019, Mainak Biswas paused to capture this scene of a train pulling into the railway station.

Mainak Biswas

After years of planning, Suraj Padhy took a trip to Kerala in April 2018. He spent an evening cruising in the backwaters of Allepey on a kutta vanchi (bowl boats), watching the sunset and listening to tales narrated by the rower.

Suraj Padhy

From the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge, Gourav Ghosh took this photo of ferries crossing the impossibly blue waters, and the regal Opera House.

Gourav Ghosh

Vigan in the Philippines boasts of a confluence of European and Asian architecture. On a November morning, Sirsendu Gayen waited at a junction to capture a shot of the city's motorised tricycle.

Sirsendu Gayen

On his visit to Italy last October, Priyanjit Biswas was most fascinated by Venice's waterways. He captured an overhead shot of the city's iconic gondola ride carrying tourists through colorful canals.

Priyanjit Biswas

While strolling through the historic neighbourhoods of Lisbon in February 2020, Soumya Tapadar decided to hop on to the Elevador da Glória, for a short but delightful funicular ride past walls covered with graffiti.

Soumya Tapadar

Mumbai's BEST buses are as iconic as the city's heritage buildings. Sumeet Naik captured the two in one frame, as he hopped on and explored the city's landmarks by bus.

Sumeet Naik