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Photo Casebook: 2010 in photos
Here it is: the photo event of the year, literally. The Boston Globe’s Big Picture reviews the past year in 120 breathtaking photographs. Charting natural disasters to human mishaps, moments of triumph to our darkest hours over the last 365 days.
Here’s a few we snatched off the site earlier (link below for full gallery):
A day after a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, killing thousands, a young woman climbs over shopping carts and the rubble of a collapsed store on January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (THONY BELIZAIRE/AFP/Getty Images)
A snowboarder flies through the Olympic rings at the start of the opening ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, February 12, 2010. (REUTERS/David Gray)
A layer of fog floats into Victoria harbor in Hong Kong late on March 15, 2010. (RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP/Getty Images)
An Afghan boy prepares to bowl a ball while playing cricket inside the ruins of a compound, which used to be home to a timber manufacturing factory in the late 80's, on the western outskirts of Kabul on May 14, 2010. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)
South African Lucas Mahuca, 3, kicks a ball as he plays soccer in a field next to his house in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, South Africa. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A soldier evacuating residents carries a flood victim to a helicopter in Sanawa, Pakistan's on August 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Stringer)
A tremendous sinkhole caused by the heavy rains of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala City was estimated to be 30 meters wide and over 60 meters deep. As the sinkhole formed, it swallowed a clothing factory about three miles from the site of a similar sinkhole three years earlier. The clothing factory had closed only an hour before it plunged into the Earth. (REUTERS/Casa Presidencial)
Chilean miner Osman Araya (right) is welcomed by his wife Angelica as he comes out of the Fenix rescue capsule after been brought to the surface on October 13, 2010 following a 10-week ordeal in the collapsed San Jose mine, near Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, Chile. Araya was the sixth from the 33 trapped miners to be lifted from underground. (HUGO INFANTE/AFP/Getty Images)
Residents leave a danger zone as Indonesia's Merapi volcano releases ash clouds above Balerante village, Klaten on November 1, 2010. A series of eruptions and pyroclastic flows wreaked havoc on surrounding villages and farms, killing over 140 people. (ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)
Go to The Big Picture: 2010 in photos now.
Posted in Photography and Art by Jimmy
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Photo Casebook: Chris Bretz
Some dope photos from our man Chris Bretz. The subject is up and coming Superstock Motorbike racer Jon Kirkham. Twenty-five-year-old Kirkham has much to be proud of in 2010. Not only did he buy and prepare his own race bikes, but as a privateer rider, he has struggled with funding all season. Despite this, he secured the 2010 Metzeler British Superstock 1000 Championship title with a convincing win at the Croft racing circuit in North Yorkshire on his BMW S 1000 RR.
Check out more work from Chris Bretz here.
Posted in Photography and Art by Bemps
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Photo Casebook: Students Riot in London
Remember the video about the student protests in the U.K. (see vid here). Well, last Thursday Parliament met and voted to raise university tuition fees significantly to three times the current amount. This seems massively unfair since the people voting were probably all beneficiaries of free higher education in the U.K.
No wonder students got so mad. These pictures show the immediate result of Parliament’s decision.
See more photos from the protest here !
Posted in Political by Bemps
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Photo Casebook: Gareth James
Some amazing shots of London at night, taken high above ground by Gareth James. See more of his work here.
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Photo Casebook: Michael Frith
Facial expressions captured through water colour, speak a thousand words. These are by Michael Frith of The Times:
You can find more Michael Frith paintings here
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Photo Casebook: Ben Morse
Photo Casebook is a simple game for photography lovers and casual browsers of the art form where we ask snappers to answer a scenario-based question with their own photos…
So, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has succeeded in taking over the world and is about to impose a worldwide ban on photos. Your camera will be confiscated unless you can justify its use for anything other than taking lovely pictures of the Dear Leader (as above).
Photographer: Ben Morse
This was literally a 'point and click' moment on the coast of Hawaii - photography should be about capturing a moment. That moment is even better if it can be brought to people who won't get the chance to see it themselves. Plus, y'know, it's beautiful and calming and all of that.
Another 'right place, right time' moment, showing the unifying power of music. I don't believe in many things, but music having the power to unite and to uplift is definitely one of them.
This guy is training in Parkour, and had spent the morning unsuccessfully scaling a wall with his bare hands. He'd taped them after they started bleeding, and then kept going. And he honestly didn't care. These guys train armies - I've never met people so committed and passionate about what they do - it was a total pleasure watching them.
You can find Ben Morse at www.benmorse.co.uk, or by searching Facebook for “Ben Morse Photography”.
Calling all photographers, accomplished, unaccomplished, full time cameramen, part time snappers. Participate in Photo Casebook by sending your snaps to photocasebook@love4culture.com (Answer by sending three pictures maximum, with or without explanations, and a link to your site).
Posted in Photography and Art by Jimmy
