It's never easy editing pictures from an entire year into a short photo gallery, but it's always something that we look forward to doing. The images that you find looking back at the major events of 2006, as well as those precious little moments you trip across, snap you immediately into the emotion of what you're seeing as if it were happening again. And, in a sense, it is -- it's there right in front of you: the tears rolling down the cheek of a sister who lost her brother in Iraq ...
the sense of foreboding that you get as you literally stand with a fire fighting crew looking out at the enormous task ahead of them as they battle yet another wildfire in California ...
that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach as you look at the memorial to the Sago coal mining victims, or the feeling of helplessness looking at the silhouetted Amish men standing in front of that Lancaster County school house, because you know what happened there ...
as well as that delightful smile that comes to your face when you see a photo like the little boy hanging on to a sheep during a toddler rodeo ...
It's all there in our Pictures of the Year 2006: Editors' Choice photo gallery. Take a look, vote for the picture you think is most compelling. And when you're finished with that, check out the photos that you voted on each week as the top images of the year in our Pictures of the Year 2006: Users' Choice gallery. We hope they all move you, inspire you, delight you.
And don't forget to continue looking for our Pictures of the Week in 2007 that will be posted every Friday as well as many more photo galleries you will see linked on AOL Visions.
- Happy New Year
2 comments:
I enjoyed looking at all of the pictures. I shoot digital all of the time but can't get pictures like these.
you seem to have missed "the" picture for 2006...which is Oded Balilty's, "The Power of One" - the image of a single jewish settler (woman) battling a troop of israli forces. this one is an amazing image and it made it to every POY on the web that i have seen. because it truly deserves to. how come you did not pick this photo? not that you should follow everone, i am just curious how you could not be moved by ti or miss how loaded it is and what a forceful comment it makes. and what a difficult photo to take.
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