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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at DePauw chapter.

As a travel enthusiast, you’ll often find me in a new city on my tip-toes, or lounging down, film camera in hand trying to obtain the perfect angle to capture a singular moment in time. While I love getting the perfect picture with my film camera, that later develops into the most beautifully grainy, yellow-tinted image–I have gathered even more breath-taking moments with just my phone. Views that were fleeting, but I had just enough time to pull out my phone and snap a quick image. Sometimes, the photos taken with the least amount of thought and precision, become some of your favorites. All of these photos were snapped in some of my favorite cities across the U.S. (Providence, Chicago, New Orleans, etc.), I hope that these views transport you and catch your breath in the same way that they did mine.