Pictures of the Year
February 27, 2006 7:22 PM   Subscribe

Pictures of the Year Gallery posted. A few may be familiar to those who read this previous post, but still very much worth seeing.
posted by ig (16 comments total)
 
Wow. This shot is incredible. And this one shows you why swimming in strange rivers is a bad idea.
posted by blahblahblah at 7:59 PM on February 27, 2006


Beautiful photos, once again sullied by crappy-ass web design. Please, for the love of god, why is it that so many photo presentations, from news sites to exhibitions to 'best-ofs' like this, chrome these wonderful pieces of art in interfaces that make me want to kick babies?

Thumbnails? Some indication of where the fuck I am in the photo list? Why do some click take me to pages with more pictures divided by photographer, and others with these miniscule little clusters of pixels I'm supposed to click to go through the images? Who took them, again?

It's astounding me how uniformly bad these presentations are. I knew, even before I clicked on the link, that I was going to be in for a rough ride getting through them all. It wasn't nearly as bad as some, but still... Lordy.

Ok, I'm done ranting.
posted by wolftrouble at 8:07 PM on February 27, 2006


The sports photo titled "Eye Gouge" lives up to expectations.
posted by smackfu at 8:15 PM on February 27, 2006


(And at least it's not in Flash, wolftrouble.)
posted by smackfu at 8:15 PM on February 27, 2006


I've always been a sucker for nature photography: Whale-ho!
posted by rob511 at 8:16 PM on February 27, 2006


thx, been loking for new wallpapers....
posted by dawdle at 8:24 PM on February 27, 2006


Can someone explain to me how in the world "Hawk and Prey" is set in downtown Washington, D.C.? Say wha? Looks like endless prairie to me.
posted by billysumday at 8:40 PM on February 27, 2006


billysumday, it looks like concrete paving stones to me.
posted by bunglin jones at 8:48 PM on February 27, 2006


Everybody loves Britney.
posted by LarryC at 8:50 PM on February 27, 2006


Site appears dead.
posted by bz at 9:39 PM on February 27, 2006


what wolftrouble said

great post, though
posted by scarabic at 10:04 PM on February 27, 2006


These are wonderful - I couldn't possibly pick a favorite pic or series of pics. Although Waiting in a Waterfall in the nature series that blahblahblah links to is quite incredible. But the human dramas are what appeal to me. I am so thankful to good news photographers for the window on breaking events that they bring us - there is often something so much more compelling about the right image frozen in time than live footage. Thanks, ig. (Good to see you here, drop by more often!)
posted by madamjujujive at 10:18 PM on February 27, 2006


LarryC: She's entitled to wear that shirt. She made it.
posted by emelenjr at 11:10 PM on February 27, 2006


The Joan Didion shot is awesome.
posted by 235w103 at 11:35 PM on February 27, 2006


I'd love to see some of these in a size that, when transfered to my Desktop Wallpaper, doesn't make them look like a pixelated mess.
posted by thanotopsis at 10:59 AM on February 28, 2006


The 'gators surfing waves in Brazil is an awesome shot.
posted by OmieWise at 12:18 PM on February 28, 2006


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