Comments on: Pictures of the Year

Pictures of the Year

ig — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:22:09 -0800

Pictures of the Year Gallery posted. A few may be familiar to those who read this previous post, but still very much worth seeing.

By: blahblahblah

blahblahblah — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:59:08 -0800

Wow. This shot is incredible. And this one shows you why swimming in strange rivers is a bad idea.

By: wolftrouble

wolftrouble — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:07:20 -0800

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.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:15:31 -0800

The sports photo titled "Eye Gouge" lives up to expectations.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:15:56 -0800

(And at least it's not in Flash, wolftrouble.)

By: rob511

rob511 — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:16:23 -0800

I've always been a sucker for nature photography: Whale-ho!

By: dawdle

dawdle — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:24:56 -0800

thx, been loking for new wallpapers....

By: billysumday

billysumday — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:40:03 -0800

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.

By: bunglin jones

bunglin jones — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:48:06 -0800

billysumday, it looks like concrete paving stones to me.

By: LarryC

LarryC — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:50:05 -0800

Everybody loves Britney.

By: bz

bz — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:39:52 -0800

Site appears dead.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:04:50 -0800

what wolftrouble said great post, though

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:18:36 -0800

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!)

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:10:40 -0800

LarryC: She's entitled to wear that shirt. She made it.

By: 235w103

235w103 — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:35:45 -0800

The Joan Didion shot is awesome.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:37:10 -0800

I found Barack Obama inside a nuclear missile amusing. Sort of like a real life Brandon Bird painting or something.

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:59:38 -0800

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.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:18:50 -0800

The 'gators surfing waves in Brazil is an awesome shot.