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2008, the year in photographs (part 3 of 3)
2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Look for part 1 and part 2 earlier. (40 photos total)
A general view shows a "solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, Spain on November 6, 2008. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto the top of a 100 meter (300 foot) tower where it produces steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity. (REUTERS/Marcelo Del Pozo) #
Staff stand in a meeting room at the Lehman Brothers offices in the financial district of Canary Wharf in London September 11, 2008. Lehman Brothers eventually filed for bankruptcy - the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history - and was delisted from the NYSE, and later liquidated. (REUTERS/Kevin Coombs) #
A U.S. Marine with a ground combat element assigned to Delta Company, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Task Force Mechanized, Multi-National Force - West walks through the Hatra Ruins in the Jazeerah Desert in Iraq on July 20, 2008. The task force is conducting disruption operations in the area to deny the enemy sanctuary and prevent foreign fighters from accessing the area. (Lance Cpl. Albert F. Hunt, U.S. Marine Corps.) #
A young sapphire miner holds on tight to a rope as he is lowered into a deep hole in the ground in a field in Anzanakaro near Ilakaka, Madagascar on September 14, 2008. Local miners and many of their family members work deep narrow holes where they scrape gravel and sand in search of sapphires. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) #
Most of the homes in the Oakridge mobile home park, which reportedly had 600-800 homes, lie in ruins after burning in the Sylmar Fire on November 15, 2008 in Sylmar, California. The fire began last night and was fueled to more than 2,600 acres by strong erratic winds in excess of 70 miles per hour which kept firefighting aircraft grounded in the morning. (David McNew/Getty Images) #
The bodies of two Palestinian militants lay near their mortar launcher after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza November 16, 2008. They had been firing mortar rounds into a neighboring Israeli neighborhood. An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and two rockets fired from the Hamas-controlled territory hit Israel as a five-month-old ceasefire continued to unravel. (REUTERS/Stringer) #
A military helicopter transporting soldiers and engineers prepares to land near the Tangjiashan quake lake area at earthquake-hit Beichuan, Sichuan province, China on May 27, 2008. China had evacuated more than 150,000 people living below a swollen lake formed by this month's devastating earthquake amid fears it could burst and trigger massive flooding, state media said on Wednesday. (REUTERS/China Daily) #
21-year-old Ajmal Kasab, one of ten terrorists who attacked Mumbai, India on November 26th, 2008 walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station, carrying weapons and duffel bags of ammunition. Kasab and his cohorts - all from Pakistan - killed over 170 people over the course of three days, until all except Kasab were killed by Indian forces. (AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza) #
Internally Displaced People leave Kibati heading north from the city to their villages, Kibumba and Rugari, north of the provincial capital of Goma, Congo, on November 2, 2008. Several thousand people displaced in the fighting between rebels and government troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo began returning home Sunday as a ceasefire held, an AFP correspondent on the scene reported. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images) #
An earthquake survivor tries to figure out where his home used to be at the Donghekou Earthquake Relics Park, which covers one town and five villages including Donghekou Village, on November 11, 2008 in Qingchuan County of Sichuan Province, China. The park, which is the first memorial site after the massive Wenchuan Earthquake, was opened to the public on November 12, 2008. (China Photos/Getty Images) #
A young man with an arrow in his head arrives at hospital following ethnic clashes in the town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area January 26, 2008. Kenyans in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru feared more violence on Saturday after a disputed election triggered pitched battles between ethnic gangs that killed at least a dozen people. (REUTERS/Peter Andrews) #
Soldiers maintain order amongst stranded passengers outside a railway station in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, February 3, 2008. A stampede at Guangzhou railway station killed one person when frustrated passengers rushed to board trains after days of cancellations because of fierce cold and snow, police confirmed on Sunday. (REUTERS/Daniel Chan) #
An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs, and were evicted from the land. (REUTERS/Luiz Vasconcelos-A Critica/AE) #
This sequence of 12 frames was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over a span of about 45 minutes on March 12, 2008. In that brief time, Cassini covered almost 40,000 kilometers in its approach to a flyby encounter with Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn. The overexposure and smearing of the images gives a hint of the raw speed involved - 14.4 km/sec (or 32,211 mph). Shortly after this sequence, at its closest, Cassini approached within 52 km (32.3 miles) of the surface of Enceladus. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) #
A U.S. Army helicopter gunner, his helmet face painted as a skull, awaits soldiers to board his Chinook transport helicopter October 30, 2008 for transport out of the Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents had attacked a nearby U.S. Army outpost, and the Americans responded with machine guns, mortars and helicopter gunships. (John Moore/Getty Images) #
Thousands of black clad Israeli Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Arieh Levish Teitelbaum, one of the Israeli victims of the Mumbai attacks, on December 2, 2008 in Jerusalem. Wailing and chanting psalms, thousands of people bid a final farewell today to the six Jews killed in last week's bloody Mumbai attacks and whose bodies were flown to Israel for burial. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images) #
Pakistani men try to rescue a donkey buried during an earthquake in Ziarat, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Quetta, Pakistan on October 30th, 2008. Rescue workers searched through the rubble of villages destroyed by a powerful earthquake in southwestern Pakistan that killed at least 215 people. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti/FILE) #
The Chinese Shenzhou-7 manned spaceship, the Long-March II-F rocket and the escape tower are transferred to the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu province, China on September 20, 2008. Taikonaut Zhai Zhigang performed China's first-ever spacewalk on the successful mission. (REUTERS/Stringer). #
An Indian policeman holds a shield against stone-throwing Kashmiri Muslim protesters in Srinagar September 9, 2008. More than two dozen people including 10 policemen were injured in Kashmir on Tuesday when police clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in fresh protests against Indian rule in the area. (Fayaz Aziz/Reuters) #
People drop lines in holes on a frozen river at an event to fish trout in Hwacheon, South Korea, about 20 km (12 miles) south of the demilitarised zone separating two Koreas, northeast of Seoul January 13, 2008. More than 1,000,000 people attend at the annual ice festival which lasts for three weeks in January. (REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won ) #
A patient with advanced pulmonary TB in a tuberculosis hospital in Mumbai, India receives a daily injection as well as oxygen. Photojournalist James Nachtwey brought us (through photography) a story this year of a new, dangerous type of tuberculosis called Extreme Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. Tuberculosis is both preventable and curable, but inadequate treatment has been driving the emergence of XDR-TB, especially in developing nations. For more information about XDR-TB, please visit xdrtb.org. (© James Nachtwey/VII) #
Images of books on shelves are seen projected on the walls of the Tower of David in Jerusalem's Old City - part of a show called "Or Shalem, Jerusalem Lights the Night", staged by a group called Skertzò on October 7, 2008. The Tower of David is a massive citadel that, over the centuries, has served as a fortress, military barracks and cannon position. These days, the Tower serves as a popular tourist site. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) #
More links and information
Shenzhou 7 - Wikipedia entry
2008 Pakistan earthquake - Wikipedia entry
November 2008 Mumbai attacks - Wikipedia entry
2008 Nord-Kivu campaign (Congo) - Wikipedia entry
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The utter pain and terror that occurs in some of these photos is excruciating, and agonizing in the fact that we must all come to realize that it is people like us who do those things.
thanks....
I say for comment 270;
Are you really think that Iran support terrorism?
I don't agree with you. Today everybody find that Iran love people and support humans that need help. like Gaza an etc.
Israeil and USA absolutly mean KILL, TERROR, HUNGRY, BLOOD, etc.
please think again and do with moral!
Great Photos!!, Disheartened to see more pictures in Violence,
God!! Bless this year to be filled with luv and peace.
It's nice to know there is PEACE on Earth. It's right there on #38, and now it's on my desktop to remind me of that feeling Everyday! THANKS Big Picture! This is the best Address out there, by far. The Portraits of life, Good and Bad, are always Top Notch and Stunning! Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see what will be here Tomorrow...Billy Mac Columbia, SC
omg thats so sad =[ but good photo shots =]
Where are the pictures of the Israeli towns being terrorized by the constant barrage of Hamas missles targeting civilians?
Fantastic pictures.
Fabuous
Very interesting pictures! It is amazing how we can interpret the world through these pictures. They definitely show some of our reality, well done.
please please stick some photos from GAZA...
I think the main current issue is that poor people..that nobody heared their voice.
Impresionante todo lo que puede reflejar una imágen.
Hay algunas para Sorprenderse, otras para alegrar otras para sufrir..
Pero es lo que es, es lo que es este mundo, es lo que somos.
AWESOME!
number 18 is amazing
buenisimos
Espero que em 2009, algumas destas cenas não se repitam
great pictures
Comrade,very good
good work.
I really enjoyed looking at this collection.
let's hope for a more peaefull and less violent 2009
Picture of two dead and broken bodies are awful to watch; but we should remember that these were the bodies of two TERRORISTS trying to kill civilians!
I don't want to see the loss of ANY innocent persons no matter who they are; but anyone in this world who kills others for their own ideology should NOT expect others to sit and watch. We should not tolerate bullies anywhere!
Formal religions, no matter of what kind, are without any exeption, the most efficient strategy Satan uses to attain his aim.
For a moment there I thought I was watching a Michael Moore or Oliver Stone movie. Wouldn't exactly consider that professional, but, aside from that (we're all used to that already anyway), great pictures and good work, congratulations.
comments about the pic#12 are absolutly wrong because its rubbish that the terrorist were carrying their pakistani passports and pakistan made toothpaste etc for proof that they belong to pakistan,the indian government has lied first telling the terrorist are 20 then 15 then 10 and they never gave details and provesabout any of them except ajmal kassab who was kidnapped f rom singapore couple of years back and was in the custody of indian s and they are using him to obtain thier goals ,which is mainly to declare pakistan a terrorist state in the world.
wow, the last photo and the picture of obama are stunning!
impressionante, chocante mostrando as duas faces do ser humano e da sua relaçao com a terra.
Estas fotos deviam ser exibidas em escolas de forma as criancas diferenciarem o bom do mal,
Alberto
Magnificas !
ma boa imagem não consegue ser descrita por palavras
Definitivamente.....
.................................ese fue el año 2008.
iam very impresive from your pikcheres
Increibles pero cierto, Sorprendentes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 368 get your head examined !
AMAZING...perplexing...AWESOME...sad...COMFORTING...shocking...INSPIRING...disheartening...ELATING...deflating... depressing...ENLIGHTENING..........positive...NEGATIVE...Positive...NEGATIVe...POsitive...NEGATIve...POSitive... NEGATive...POSItive...NEGAtive...POSITive...NEGative...POSITIve... NEgative...POSITIVe...Negative...POSITIVE...negative...POSITIVE...negativ...POSITIVE... negati...POSITIVE...negat...POSITIVE...nega...POSITIVE...neg...POSITIVE...ne...POSITIVE...n...POSITIVE... POSITIVE...POSITIVE...LOVE !!!...LAUGH !!!...LIVE !!! (((((LIFE))))).......CHANGES.......ABUNDANT LOVE - HEART & SOUL (((((2009)))))
Sensacional!! Lindas demais!
Temos uma neta de quase dois anos. A nossa maior preocupação é o que ela vai encontrar desse mundo até a idade adulta.
Será que haverá alguma interferência Divina para que tudo isso se acabe, ou Ele esta ciente disso tudo ... e ...????
O que será de nós ???
No words can define the work done by the great great great photographer..................................... Extraoridinary, Exceptional and excellent work....
really captures what life on earth today is all about....really marvellous
I am sorry to say it 375, but I totally agree with you that 368 should have his head examined. 348 should also accompany 368. Their idea of Internet is to use it to put their hate in writing and try to influence readers. They don't care about the beauty of all these photos - be they sad or otherwise. They should be enjoying and congratulating the excellent and professional work, rather than making negative remarks…
WHY CAN'T ONE, NEUTERAL INDIVUDUAL RULE ALL THE WORLD, THAT WOULD BE EASY AND; AMAZING OUTCOMES WOULD BE ACHIEVED.
HOPE BARACKA SAVES THE WORLD BEFORE THE WORLD SAVES ITSELF..!
The people making comments like 'no olmypic games!!' might want to read the 'part 3 of 3' bit
Great photographs and I am always fascinated to read the comments as well
Impressionante............sem palavras..........belissimos trabalhos
Powerful, moving, soul stirring
FOTOS MAGNIFICAS,MAS ALGUMAS ENCHEM-ME DE TRISTEZA,ESPECIALMENTE AS QUE MOSTRAM CENAS DE GUERRA.ATÉ QUANDO ?
Look what we humans do to each other. *shakes head*
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Wow..a reminder of how screwed up our world really is. Pray for peace, the end of war and the end of human suffering.
gorgeous....
vecne no
Ces photos sont spectaculaires et pour certaines porteuses d'espoir.
Uma foto vale mais que mil palavras. Obrigada :)
Fabulosas :)
dificilmente conseguirei demonstrar a gratidão a todos aqueles que se arriscaram para tirar estas fotos fantasticas fazendo-as chegar até nós.... demonstrando-nos a mais pura das realidades...
A todos os fotografos aqui em causa, Obrigada.
Fizeram de mim uma pessoa melhor.
Nice pictures indeed... :mrgreen:
O que uma simples câmara e muito talento podem conseguir...
Obrigado aos autores.
pois pois pois
Eu não consigo, viver aquiiiiii!
number 31...i cried when i saw that..no seriously..THAT DONKEY BETTER HAVE LIVED.
*wipes tears off laptop keys*
thank you xxx
Le monde n'a pas l'air drôle vu de Boston.Courage....
SEM COMENTÁRIOS
Moltesgràcies per compartir aquestes meravelloses fotos
MANY THANKS TO THE AUTHORS. SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT !!
demasiadas fotografias sobre la campaña presidencial de los EUA...un poco mas globalizada la cosa habria sido mas interesante...de todas formas de la s mejore s selecciones de fotografias que he visto del año recien pasado...felicidades
simplesmente fantásticas...
Extraordinaire qualité d'image !!
Très belles images qui ne sont que le reflet de notre monde et de ce qui le compose de bien ou de mal, de beau ou de laid, de haine ou d'espoir, au travers de tous les êtres qui le peuple, donc nous.....
Aaladin
Extraordinary quality of image!!
Very beautiful images which are only the reflection of our world and what composes it of the good or the evil, the beautiful or the ugly, of hatred or hope, through all the beings which populates it, thus we.....
Aaladin
excellent no words to say
WOW!! QUE IMPRESIONANTES!! SENCILLAMENTE FANTASTICAS!!
rewelacja :)
Remember photo nº 26 of Luís Vasconcelos.
Do you know the life story of Maria Paulina dos Anjos Guajajara (2001-2008)?
Have you some photos of Brazilian Índios?
Muito bom mesmo!
Fascinante o que uma simples imagem consegue transmitir.
Adoro fotografia, é simplesmente magico!
Parabens!
ecxellent photographs,they captive important moments of our amazing planet!
thanks for sharing all this art work with us.
Thanks for sharing! They are really great photos but it does sadden me to think of all the violence occurring in our world. Unfortunately I believe the violence is about power and greed primarily, though those in power and getting richer by the second are not who we see on the front lines nor are they dying. The wealth in this world is infinite and no one should be homeless or hungry or sad.
I Like very very much!
:)
Simplesmente espectaculares mas de enorme violência.
Ó deuses acalmai um pouco este mundo em que vivemos!
Merci , pour ce résultat d'un fantastique travail .
Joies , tristesses , révoltes , prouesses , images toujours stupéfiantes !
Ainsi est , ainsi va le monde .
that was a cool one!
¡Por favor! Extraordinaria mirada de nuestra "civilización".
This blog is perfect,magic...
My new favorite !
Thank's for sharing !
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Ovaj blog je perfektan, magican...
Svakome ko voli fotografiju ovo mora biti favoritna odrednica!
Hvala!
Zarrrrrrr-padasssss!!!!!!! Mucha sangre! Mucho yankee!!! Jesuscristo es mi guia!
THANK YOU FOR PUTTING US IN THE PICTURE, EXTREMELY GRATEFUL FOR FRONT LINE COVERAGE, RODNEY.
POOR PONY & HORSE ..........& THE PPL!!!!
wonderfull photos
it's brings us together as humain being all over the world,in our single home.
earth!
Wow!... great .... ecxellent photographs..!!
dizies pic r grosss and not koool at all but stil they tell the turth about life an al dat stuff any wazy could have done a better job at pics width no bad stuff on it
thanks
life is so short .live it completly. don waste ur precious time in harming others. in anyways its not gonna help u its not gonna stop u from death . live till u live and let others live. have fun do masti y all this crap
maravilhosas todas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Very thought provoking photographs. Thank you for sharing them
sorrry God, we´re only humans....
to the picture nr 16. i been a couple times in visegrad, but i never been in bosnia. the picture may be was made in bosnia, but the town isn´t visegrad.
the original town is in hungary in the danubian bow and was a king residence in the XIII. century. you can still visit the ruins of the palast and the castle
amazing truths
Fotos magnificas!!! Gostaria de ter feito a maioria delas, contudo algumas eu gostaria que nao existissem, aquelas das guerras. Que mundo deixaremso para as futuras gerações???
Great photographs, thank you for publishing them.
Sensacionais!!!!!!
Agradeço por ter tido a chance de apreciá-las.
Estas imagens são uma verdadeira obra de arte que só mesmo em ocasiões especiais se conseguem.
There are so many other events happening in the world which we never know or learn about until an amazing e-mail like this comes to us. Thank you for alll your hard work and dedication to show us how mankind spends its days and nights. Simply SPECTACULAR!
Dear sir
The year in photo
A look back at the major events of the past year.
Absolutely brilliant photos, but they make me weep.
For the 430 - there are two towns named Visegrad, in Bosnia and Hungary. The photo was taken in Bosnia as stated below the picture (Diving competition from the famous Visegrad bridge, July 2008). The famous Visegrad bridge - a masterpiece of Ottoman architecture, the bridge of twelve arches, 170 metres in length and over 6 metres wide, was built in 1571 by Kodža Mimar, has inspired the Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian author Ivo Andriæ to write famous novel “The Bridge over the Drina”. Apart from its historical, documentary, symbolic and ontological value, it is also of incalculable architectural and aesthetic significance.
Good fotos
Photography at its best. Very enlightening. Thank you.
fantastico
The Power of Photography
I M P R E S I O N A N T E E E E E E E E E E!!!!
Me ha gustado muchisimo las todas fotos, son muy interesantes y además muy bonitas.
Enhorabuena para los fotografos.
Grandiosas.
me han mandado muchos coreos titulados "las mejores fotos de 2008" y similares.
Pero estas superar cualquiera.
La 16 y 33 .... IMPRESSIVE !!! me quito el sombrero