2008 in photos

[tetsujin1979]

from boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/the_year_2008_in_photographs_p.html
Some powerful images there

Note: some of the images are blacked out and you have to click on them to view. They're pretty intense, you have been warned.

[Aberdonian Stu]

Good idea for a thread, how do you post images? I figure it'd be cool if we posted some cool images we saw/took from 08.

[atfconline]

Don't know if there are any rules/guidelines about posting photos on here, but how to do it is select the direct address of the image, and paste it using the little yellow mountain icon.

Some photo hosting site will generate a little bit of code to paste direct into a post.

[atfconline]

I spent my year shooting the eL. One of my favourite shots would probably be the one below, despite the teams involved. Had it printed and got paid for it too, which helped. :)

http://photos3.pix.ie/05/90/0590593BE9504EAB8C864C2BF7676B5E-500.jpg

[Aberdonian Stu]

Thanks for the info atfconline. Here's some pics I took this year that stood out for me as personal faves. I can only put up three per post so I'll have some more later.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Clz-YcJ7N90/SBGZ6nuGgSI/AAAAAAAABfY/28TsgQfqHx0/s640/DSC00665.JPG
RoboRugby players get ready for action in UCD in May.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Clz-YcJ7N90/SIYFBr4sAVI/AAAAAAAACN8/H6LCsLR4eds/s640/DSC01043.JPG
Austria's Sybille Bammer in action at Wimbledon in June.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Clz-YcJ7N90/SIX3ZfZg8sI/AAAAAAAAB1Q/ncrS_BZf0pQ/s640/DSC01100.JPG
Students from NUI Maynooth with their cooking oil fuelled car that earned them second place at the Imagine Cup in Paris in July.

[Aberdonian Stu]

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Clz-YcJ7N90/SIX-Tg4Y8NI/AAAAAAAAB7U/aBwFbwvFfso/s640/DSC01150.JPG
The Eiffel Tower at night from the same Paris trip as the Imagine Cup pics.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Clz-YcJ7N90/SNAmlhaxaII/AAAAAAAAC-4/VLt2aYWlKyk/s640/DSC01508.JPG
Students at the University of California at Berkeley go buy society and club stands during one of the early weeks of the US college year in September.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Clz-YcJ7N90/SNApXzKvsjI/AAAAAAAADRQ/11ae4sKpBo0/s640/DSC01705.JPG
Drifting racers duel it out at a Formula D event in Sonoma Raceway in September.

[Aberdonian Stu]

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Clz-YcJ7N90/SUpp4OKpX3I/AAAAAAAAD7w/4f1hHUHizCQ/s512/DSC01992.JPG
Skating outside 30 Rockefeller plaza over NBC's map of the US which was used to show which states Obama and McCain won. This photo was taken the day before the election in November.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Clz-YcJ7N90/SUps7RJW6mI/AAAAAAAAEKM/paUn9vHWK-g/s640/DSC02115.JPG
Boston Celtics mascot Lucky appears on the big screen to fire the crowd up at the TD Banknorth Garden for a game against the Milwaukee Bucks in November.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Clz-YcJ7N90/SUpmf0tyjDI/AAAAAAAADp8/92mhaIlyESw/s512/34924-10380-015f.jpg
Lastly one I didn't take, me running the New York City marathon in November.

[strangeirish]

Obama in Portland, Oregon, during the campaign. http://weblog.sinteur.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/2503237165_906aed318c_o.jpg

[osarusan]

http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00161/katie_161316t.jpg
one of the irish stories of 2008

[osarusan]

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2007/Dec/Week1/1619438.jpg
Pressure of leadership?

[sligoman]

Mauro Almeida-Legend!
http://corkcityfc.ie/gallery/albums/sligo090508/IMG_9026.JPG

[Magicme]

I spent my year shooting the eL. One of my favourite shots would probably be the one below, despite the teams involved. Had it printed and got paid for it too, which helped. :)

http://photos3.pix.ie/05/90/0590593BE9504EAB8C864C2BF7676B5E-500.jpg

Cool love that picture of "The Beast".

You should put up your pictures of the Eagles/Spiders. They were so impressive.

[Réiteoir]

Hit with his best shot ... referee Joe Cortez reacts as Bernard Hopkins of the US hits Joe Calzaghe of Wales during their light-heavyweight boxing fight at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. Picture: Marsh Starks / Reuters
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6381171,00.jpg

Laughing leader ... exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama takes part in a Children and Youth Day celebration, as part of his five-day visit to Seattle. Picture: Robert Sorbo / Reuters
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6381207,00.jpg

Fond farewell ... Alexander Solzhenitsyn's son Ignat and his grandson Andrei bid farewell at the coffin of the late writer and former Soviet dissident in the Academy of Science in Moscow. Picture: Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6381213,00.jpg

[strangeirish]

Here (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1217081mugyear1.html)

My Favorite...

http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art4/1217081mugyear19.jpg:D

Most have a link above the photo's to the arrest story.

[passinginterest]

Here's the second part of the original set (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/2008_in_photographs_part_2_of.html). Featuring this: http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/2008_pt2/19_paralymp.jpg