Trump, punch, golf and bird
December 10, 2017 4:29 AM Subscribe
That certainly is the most impressive golfing photo I have seen.
posted by antiwiggle at 4:51 AM on December 10, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by antiwiggle at 4:51 AM on December 10, 2017 [5 favorites]
I'm glad they put a couple of happier photos in there, because, damn.
posted by Foosnark at 7:48 AM on December 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Foosnark at 7:48 AM on December 10, 2017 [2 favorites]
I was fervently hoping the "bird" photo was this, but I can't say I came away disappointed.
posted by multics at 8:53 AM on December 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by multics at 8:53 AM on December 10, 2017 [4 favorites]
So... much... rubble.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 9:30 AM on December 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 9:30 AM on December 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
how does the Atlantic include a completely ordinary picture of the inauguration in the top 25 and not include a picture of the the thousands and thousands of mostly women who were protesting that event? (though there is a picture in the larger list)
(yes we already know answer to the question)
posted by kokaku at 9:44 AM on December 10, 2017 [8 favorites]
(yes we already know answer to the question)
posted by kokaku at 9:44 AM on December 10, 2017 [8 favorites]
Air Force 1 passing the Las Vegas hotel is the best photo of the year in my opinion
posted by knoyers at 10:20 AM on December 10, 2017
posted by knoyers at 10:20 AM on December 10, 2017
God what a harsh world it is. And I'm so insulated from most of the horribleness. Which scares me a little ... on a perhaps irrational level I feel that the unfairness will even itself out eventually, and the tables will turn. But it's scary enough that anyone at all has to deal with genocide and violence. Perhaps I should stop insulating myself ... but it's so hard, so depressing, so debilitating to really take in all that painful knowledge. /thinkiness
posted by bunderful at 5:01 PM on December 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by bunderful at 5:01 PM on December 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
The wedding photo , #17, looks like a Vermeer.
posted by OHenryPacey at 5:46 PM on December 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by OHenryPacey at 5:46 PM on December 10, 2017 [3 favorites]
One of my friends teaches in Kawangware, Nairobi, so I have a more than passing interest in the Kenya federal election that resulted in the riots in Link 2, pictures 29 and 30. (They are both SUCH powerful photos, with such great composition!) The election itself might be worth a FPP.
There really is so mayhem and awfulness going on in the world, and it really is overwhelming trying to think how to make it better.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 6:58 PM on December 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
There really is so mayhem and awfulness going on in the world, and it really is overwhelming trying to think how to make it better.
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 6:58 PM on December 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
> God what a harsh world it is. And I'm so insulated from most of the horribleness.
We are insulated even more from the good parts. You can take a photograph that paints a stark portrait of oppression. You can't take a photograph that conveys freedom, happiness, or peace that delivers the same kind of emotional impact.
posted by cirgue at 8:11 PM on December 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
We are insulated even more from the good parts. You can take a photograph that paints a stark portrait of oppression. You can't take a photograph that conveys freedom, happiness, or peace that delivers the same kind of emotional impact.
posted by cirgue at 8:11 PM on December 10, 2017 [1 favorite]
Really good point, cirgue. And the happy things are never as news-worthy as the unhappy things.
posted by bunderful at 8:27 PM on December 10, 2017
posted by bunderful at 8:27 PM on December 10, 2017
cirgue, bunderful, I did try to capture at least some measure of happiness with this follow-up photo essay I posted on Friday: Hopeful Images From 2017. I'm the editor who composed all the other Atlantic essays listed above as well. MeFi user from ages ago, shifted to longtime lurker here these days.
posted by kokogiak at 8:07 AM on December 11, 2017 [10 favorites]
posted by kokogiak at 8:07 AM on December 11, 2017 [10 favorites]
Many pictures in that short list were hard for me to look at kokogiak, I can only imagine having to sift through all the notable events of the year and try to edit, choose which get highlighted and which get culled.
For me these were both new and notable (and what's left of hopeful) - Prima ballerina Deborah Ribeiro and Hosne Ara. And Thanks for making the images easy to link to.
And I'd argue this picture of Kandy Freeman conveys freedom cirgue.
posted by zenon at 8:57 AM on December 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
For me these were both new and notable (and what's left of hopeful) - Prima ballerina Deborah Ribeiro and Hosne Ara. And Thanks for making the images easy to link to.
And I'd argue this picture of Kandy Freeman conveys freedom cirgue.
posted by zenon at 8:57 AM on December 11, 2017 [2 favorites]
set 2, photo 40. caption should be "this is all your damn fault you stupid humans."
posted by numaner at 3:37 PM on December 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by numaner at 3:37 PM on December 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
Thanks for the follow-up, kokogiak. I love the hopeful pics. I want to say something more effusive but everything I can think of seems dorky.
posted by bunderful at 3:54 PM on December 11, 2017
posted by bunderful at 3:54 PM on December 11, 2017
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