Photo Of The Day

The Arc Attack musical Tesla Coils at Art Outside.

http://philkneen.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/coming-up-for-air/

"The Afronauts" the movie - YouTube

Upcoming collaboration with Cristina de Middel who was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse prize for the Afronauts which was on show at the photographer's gallery.

TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2013

Saul Leiter's New York

From Simon Shuster's look at krokodil users in Russia

http://lightbox.time.com/2013/12/05/the-worlds-deadliest-drug-inside-a-krokodil-cookhouse/#7

Mushers compete on January 18 2013, in Megeve, during the departure of a stage of the Grande Odyssee sledding race from 2013 Pictures of the Year from Agence France Presse

http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/11/27/photos-2013-pictures-of-the-year-from-agence-france-presse/

A boy plays with balloons by Buriganga river as smoke emits from a dump yard during sunset in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

http://lightbox.time.com/2013/12/03/2013-the-year-in-365-pictures/#19

TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2013

Christ, what a grim year. Exceptionally harrowing images

Indeed..

The execution one must have been difficult to be objective.

Some good ones here:

http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2013/12/01/best-photos-of-the-year-2013/#a=3

Some good ones here:

http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2013/12/01/best-photos-of-the-year-2013/#a=3

93 images? You'd have thought an agency like Reuters would have someone who knew how to edit a set of images.

93, covering a whole year, is hardly a lot for anyone interested in photography.

93, covering a whole year, is hardly a lot for anyone interested in photography.

If it had been 93 outstanding images I'd agree still think it was too many, for a web gallery. Maybe if they were presenting an actual physical exhibition…

But anyway, there were quite a few bland images of uninteresting stories in there.

I was taught that your set is only ever as good as it's weakest image. Lot's of examples of astounding subject matter exceedingly well shot being dragged down by the dross.

yeah, but... that one is great ^^^^

yeah, but... that one is great ^^^^

I wouldn't have included it in the set.

I love it. it's very pleasing.
fingertips out, toes on point, big belly, eyes on the prize. great.

A lot of the reuters photos are a bit meh... but they are obviously being used simply as a means to tell the story. (Compiling the top 93 of the year though I'd have also expected a better set of images - they have more than enough quality to pick from). For example, this one is in the editor's picks today and isn't even in focus:

http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20131210&t=2&i=819063903&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=390&r=2013-12-10T130512Z_01_GM1E9C91FXA01_RTRRPP_0_SYRIA-CRISIS

took that from here:

http://uk.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=UKRTX16C6Z#a=1

greasy pole fat man is easily of of my favourite photos from this thread

I keep trying to figure out the story behind that one without clicking on the link.
Nobody tell me, my ignorant guesses are more fun.

greasy fat man's pole is easily of of my favourites

lol

I keep trying to figure out the story behind that one without clicking on the link.
Nobody tell me, my ignorant guesses are more fun.

This, for me, is why the image is a fail. It shouldn't need a caption or a story. The image should tell (at least the majority of) the story by itself.

Fail?
No way, the incongruity is part of the charm for me.