In July, TIME asked readers all over the world to take pictures with their phones and post them on Instagram with the tag #TIMEwireless. We received 31,429 submissions, from more than 120 countries and all seven continents (including a few from Antarctica’s McMurdo Station).
Here, for your viewing pleasure, TIME’s photo editors single out our fifteen favorite pictures submitted for this project — you can see 288 of them on this week’s cover of TIME.
