Top 10 Wired.com Reader Portrait Photos, Decided by You

We challenged our readers to give us their best portrait photos and vote on which ones they liked best. Here are the results.
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Photographer's comment:"Just a simple portrait of my younger daughter.”
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This man stopped by while I was visiting with my friend, Sajid. I remember that he was a building contractor (and a rather busy one considering the 2005 earthquake), but I never caught his name. This is just one of those faces you absolutely have to photograph. Fortunately, my friend was able to translate posing instructions for me, since I don't speak Pari or Urdu.”

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"On the streets of Houston."

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"She's wearing a really soft Russian rabbit hat."

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"A smoker in a pub doorway, in Dublin."

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"My friend kriss and I were hang'n out and she was in need of a light …. This photo was taken using the natural light emitting from the molotov.. no added light from another source ... 1/80 f./5 1600 iso shot with a canon 20D in my driveway."

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"Nikon Digital"

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"I took this image of Raphael, my nephew. We were quite bored, and decided to take some photos. The little guy is so photogenic."

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"A photo project for JieXin, the dancer you see in the photo. Somewhat of mid-night dream sequence. Colours by Lightroom. No photoshop. Nikon D300, 50-mm 1.8, natural light."