This shot of Kenann Thompson, of Takoma Park, Maryland, was taken while she was exploring a cave in Barbados while wearing her two-year-old daughter in a baby carrier on her back.

The quality of photos sent in by readers with their letters to the editor seems to have improved markedly over the last few years.

Here’s a stunning shot from the new November-December issue of reader Erin Riggio, of Tacoma, Washington, taken by her brother in Assisi, Italy, as she was breastfeeding her son.