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The Top 10 Photographs of 2010

From oil-drenched birds to Haiti, war and the Chilean miners, TIME.com photo editor Mark Rykoff explains the choices for the top 10 photographs of 2010

Impressive explanation of the choice between million of photo’s for the 10 best of 2010.

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Wall Street Stop

Marvelous exhibition with unique photos. Want to visit, here it is: Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam. Wall Street Stop

When the financial crisis of 2009 was at its peak, Reinier Gerritsen photographed people in the subway between Wall Street and Grand Central Station, New York. We see masses of introvert subway travellers in unposed group portraits. They reflect the collective feelings of a world in shock, not understanding that things have reached the stage where the global financial system has collapsed.

Gerritsen assembles his photos from a number of shots that he takes within a few seconds. He is able to realize pictures of a striking clarity and strength. He expressly presents his documentary series as a construction, and thereby places his work in the centre of the discussion on the importance of the documentary anno 2010. In his subject choice he consciously places himself within the tradition of documentary photography by retracing the footsteps of Bruce Davidson (1980’s) and Walker Evans ( 1930’s) and their fascination of everyday life in the big city.

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Photos that changed the world

Impressive collection of photos with great impact

Photographs do more than document history — they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can’t look away — or back.

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Snow in The Netherlands

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Snow is causing a lot of troubles on roads, train, and airports these days in The Netherlands. Even heard a spokesman compare these problems with the problems of Chicago in the winter as an excuse. “In Chicago these problems also exists in the winter”. No one objects but comparing the weather of Chicago with the weather in The Netherlands is like comparing apples and oranges.

The average Chicago winter produces 38.0 inches (94 cm) of snow. This is just an average; Chicago winters have produced between 9.8 and 89.7 inches (25 cm and 221 cm) of snow.

In finding lame excuses the spokesmen and -women of the responsible companies for the chaos use the mushroom method: keep people in the dark and feed them bull shit.

On the other hand, shit happens. It seems like people don’t except this. There has to be someone to blame for any mishap.

Winter also has it good sides or better: beautiful sites. Tried photographing in the snow. Used under and overexposure, took photos with a tripod for tack sharp pictures, even tried bracketing for HDR photography. Enjoyed myself but found the most simple camera settings the best. For more snow pictures have a look on flickr here.

dutch snow

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The 20 Microscopic Photo Competition Prizewinners

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All that glitters may at least be cold. This 40x magnification is of a small snowflake, taken by Yanping Wang at the Beijing Planetarium in China using reflected and transmitted light. Even though it seems no two are alike, snowflakes are indeed symmetrical.

From Petite Pictures: The 20 Microscopic Photo Competition Prizewinners at Scientific American, go see the other 19 pictures, amazing

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