Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on April 27 --

Meatzilla: Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on April 27 --

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Why even post that badly photoshopped image?

jaylectricity
Here ya go, guys...no slideshow. (caution...many pics, lots of data loading on one page. Do not attempt on Commodore 64)

Unless you have a 4500 pixel wide monitor, I strongly recommend using the "small images" version with the 735 pixel wide images, especially if you want to read the odd caption:
link^ (still NSFC64)

thismomentinblackhistory
Of all of the horrific photos...

I could have done without the close-up of that body with a hole in the skull (March 20).

Some of these will make nice wallpapers.

Rev.K: Thanks for the pick-me-up Time magazine.

Hey, maybe next year you could have more pictures of burned bodies, people being held at gunpoint and a whole bunch of other miserable goddamn pictures.

It's not about making anyone happy, the picture show is about seeing the world, one picture per day. Viewer's happiness isn't a contributing factor.

awesome

Wow. Gonna be a tough choice, but as someone else said, several wallpaper candidates here. In particular, June 5, July 30, and August 16

March 29, 2011. The iconic Christ the Redeemer statue stands in darkness ... to observe an hour of voluntary darkness for the global "Earth Hour" campaign... Not that many in town were doing the same (to be fair, I didn't either)

May 18, 2011. A levee protects a home surrounded by floodwater from the Yazoo River near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just let it go? (Cheaper, not emotionally easier). And what do you do about insurance going forward?

So many of these give interesting glimpses into other cultures and other places. Makes me want to add lots of stuff to my bucket list.

Rubberband Girl: One of the mods added a disclaimer to my headline. I can't blame them - I had only gotten a few pics in before posting this, so I hadn't seen the body with the cavernous bullet hole in it's head.

There are plenty of others - the starving children, the people working in garbage dumps and taking coal from open pit mines - that are just as disturbing in other ways. Real Life is often not pretty or simple.

Some incredible photos, some very moving ones, also quite disturbing ones. Great slideshow, but for me, just *too* much hammock.

Rev.K: Thanks for the pick-me-up Time magazine.

Hey, maybe next year you could have more pictures of burned bodies, people being held at gunpoint and a whole bunch of other miserable goddamn pictures.

Oh, I'm sorry man. Please return to the sanitized, suburban, precious snoflake, censored, safe, shiney, happy, unrealistic area on the other side of the barricade, so that your idealistic view of the world is not harmed. As a token of our sincere regret we offer you these free coupons to the Starbucks of your choice, but we suggest the one across the street from the playground where the children of all race, creed, and religion play in perfect harmony.....OR....

You can accept that the world is a mucked up place and people are going to take pictures of it.

Rev.K: earthworm2.0: Rev.K: Thanks for the pick-me-up Time magazine.

Hey, maybe next year you could have more pictures of burned bodies, people being held at gunpoint and a whole bunch of other miserable goddamn pictures.

Oh, I'm sorry man. Please return to the sanitized, suburban, precious snoflake, censored, safe, shiney, happy, unrealistic area on the other side of the barricade, so that your idealistic view of the world is not harmed. As a token of our sincere regret we offer you these free coupons to the Starbucks of your choice, but we suggest the one across the street from the playground where the children of all race, creed, and religion play in perfect harmony.....OR....

You can accept that the world is a mucked up place and people are going to take pictures of it.

Seemed a wee bit heavy on the death, destruction and misery, no?

If course the world is like that, but there's a lot of beautiful and positive things too.

This is a gallery of largely newsworthy photographs, or at least photographs representative of events that shaped 2011.

Which images of important (if depressing) events of the last year, would you suggest be removed from sight, and what would you replace them with?

I'm familiar with the tree shown on January 20th. I took a far less interesting picture of it about a month ago...

w00t.

/csb

Arcturus72: The Voice of Doom: thismomentinblackhistory
Of all of the horrific photos...

I could have done without the close-up of that body with a hole in the skull (March 20).

I agree, but the warning was out there...

The body looks so dry and "drained" that it almost looks like a mummy. I found the picture of the pile of children's bodies late in the slideshow (Nov/Dec) more disturbing.

Some beautiful pictures in that sequence, though.

jim32rr: Rubberband Girl: WOOT! This makes my 16th green light. Kinda surprised it made it to the main page despite the slide show (and thanks to jaylectricity for posting an alternative link).

Congrats RBG

Congrats for congratulating her.

Arcturus72
I agree, but the warning was out there...

That was added later.