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Tue, 18 Dec 2012

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2011 in photos (part 3)
Wed, 18 Jan 2012

Better remember to post this even if a bit late after the first two…

A defaced portrait of fugitive Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in Tripoli on Sept. 1, 2011 as the fallen strongman vowed again not to surrender in a message broadcast on the 42nd anniversary of the coup which brought him to power. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)

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2011 in photos (part 2)
Fri, 23 Dec 2011

A weed grows out of the dry cracked bed of O.C. Fisher Lake on July 25 in San Angelo, TX. The 5,440 acre lake which was established to provide flood control and serve as a secondary drinking water source for San Angelo and the surrounding communities is now dry following an extended drought in the region. The lake which has a maximum depth of 58 feet is also used for boating, fishing and swimming. The San Angelo area has seen only 2.5 inches of rain this year. The past nine months have been the driest in Texas since record keeping began in 1895, with 75% of the state classified as exceptional drought, the worst level. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)The Big Picture

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2011 in photos (part 1)
Tue, 20 Dec 2011

Boston.com’s The Big Picture has finally started the first of their end of year round up pictures and as always, it’s great and you should check it out.

8 Anti-government protesters celebrate inside Tahrir Square after the announcement that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had resigned on February 11, 2011. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)

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Reuters – Best photos of 2011
Wed, 7 Dec 2011

A volunteer cleans a family photo that was washed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as baby photos are placed to dry at a volunteer center in Ofunato, Iwate prefecture, April 12, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

Oh, it’s now coming up to that time of the year where damn near everyone online is creating ‘best of’ lists to both round out the year and take a break before the next one comes hurtling along; and I’d say they’re well justified in that. 2011 has been on helluva real roller coaster ride and I always find photography collections to be the best objective/subjective summation of a year.

This is just small portion of the 100 photos collected by Reuters in their Best photos of the year 2011 and I well recommend checking them out. Some graphic in nature, some evocative of high emotion, all relevant in looking at how we’re existing in the world today.

Well recommended.

U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

A plane flies through the "Tribute in Lights" in lower Manhattan in New York September 10, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

Lightning flashes around the ash plume above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos June 5, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Gutierrez

Zukhro, an employee of the city zoo, walks with Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion, on the territory of the zoo in the capital Dushanbe, January 20, 2011. Employees take the lion from its cage to have a promenade along the territory two times a week while holding a piece of meat to attract Vadik's attention so it walks nearby. REUTERS/Nozim Kalandarov

Source: Reuters – Best photos of the year 2011

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