# awesome thread: TIME's pics of the year 2008

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [December 17, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925 "2008-12-17T14:48:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/1 "2008-12-17T14:48:36Z")

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**![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_01.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_01.jpg)  
Barack Obama works on the speech that we would deliver after his strong showing on Super Tuesday in February.**

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_02.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_02.jpg)  
John McCain gets patted down before boarding a plane in March, after a campaign stop in San Antonio, Texas.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_03.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_03.jpg)  
McCain takes a break from campaigning to make a call to his son, who was stationed in Iraq.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_04.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_04.jpg)  
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates shakes hands with a reporter before a television interview in Baghdad, Iraq.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_05.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_05.jpg)  
A list of names of high school students who survived the massive earthquake that struck Sichuan, China in May is scanned at a stadium housing people made homeless by the tragedy.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_06.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_06.jpg)  
In pursuit of his seventh gold medal, US Swimmer Michael Phelps (left) races Serbian Milorad Cavic in the 100M Butterfly. Phelps would push past his opponent in the final meter of the race, miraculously beating him by .01 second.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_07.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_07.jpg)  
The border fence between the United States and Mexico stretches across the Arizona desert, part of a US project to slow illegal immigration.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_08.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_08.jpg)  
A man watches the financial news at NASDAQ’s studio on Times Square in New York

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_09.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_09.jpg)  
Investor Warren Buffett checks his watch while waiting for members of the media at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders’ conference.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_10.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_10.jpg)  
Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a general audience on St. Peter’s Square in November.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_11.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_11.jpg)  
A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired by police officers during a protest in front of the residence of the country’s deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Mahmood Chaudhry.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_12.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_12.jpg)  
Protesters set the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on fire in February.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_13.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_13.jpg)  
A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori, near South Ossetia, Georgia. Five people were killed in the attack.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_14.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_14.jpg)  
Coffins belonging to Georgian soldiers lie in a field awaiting burial.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_15.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_15.jpg)  
Parents hold portraits of their children, killed by the collapse of a primary school in the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan, China.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_16.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_16.jpg)  
The face of CBS anchor Katie Couric appears on television monitors set up at the Democratic National Convention in August.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_17.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_17.jpg)  
Actors playing the horror icon Chucky are unleashed in New York City to celebrate the release of _Child’s Play, Chucky’s 20th Birthday Edition_ on DVD.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_18.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_18.jpg)  
Much of the operations of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, will be relocated from Cheyenne Mountain, above, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to nearby Peterson Air Force Base.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_19.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_19.jpg)  
Technicians gather around the re-entry module holding three Chinese astronauts after its return from space. During their mission, the astronauts carried out China’s first-ever spacewalk.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_19a.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_19a.jpg)  
Women and children walk past a Shi’ite shrine in Baghdad’s Karrada District. In 2008, life in many parts of Iraq regained a semblance of normality.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_20.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_20.jpg)  
His holiness the Dalai Lama prostrates himself before a statue of Buddha at his residence in Dharamsala, India.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_20a.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_20a.jpg)  
Tibetan Buddhist monks are detained by Nepali police during a protest outside the Chinese consulate in Kathmandu, Nepal. Pro-Tibetain protests gathered intensity in the spring as the Beijing Summer Olympics grew near.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_21.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_21.jpg)  
Athletes competing in the men’s road cycling event race past Tiananmen Square on the first day of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_22.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_22.jpg)  
Barack Obama is joined by his wife Michelle and aide Valerie Jarrett, among others, as he makes his way to a victory speech St. Paul, Minnesota. The speech would be his first after clinching his party’s nomination in June.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_23.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_23.jpg)  
Hillary Clinton departs the David Letterman show in February.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_24.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_24.jpg)  
John and Cindy McCain, joined by Florida Governor Charlie Crist (in the yellow shirt) get a tour of Everglades Safari Park in June

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_25.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_25.jpg)  
GOP supporters wait for a chance to get John McCain’s autograph at a rally in Columbus in May.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_26.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_26.jpg)  
A video of departing President George W. Bush plays at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_27.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_27.jpg)  
Laid off from his job at Wachovia Bank in March, Gregory Gochtovtt, 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, decided to enlist in the National Guard. He shipped out to Iraq in December.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_28.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_28.jpg)  
Congolese government forces stand guard along a road in the eastern Congo during renewed fighting in November.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_29.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_29.jpg)  
A drunk Russian soldier emerges from a building in a village near Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, during fighting in August.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_30.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_30.jpg)  
A tire burns atop a truck used as a makeshift roadblock in Kisumu, Kenya, after the town had been cleared of ethnic Kikuyus by armed mobs in January.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_31.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_31.jpg)  
A house is engulfed in flames as floodwaters and crashing waves inundate beach homes on Galveston Island as Hurricane Ike approaches the Texas Gulf Coast.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_32.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_32.jpg)  
Boathouses borne by rising floodwaters collide with a railroad bridge in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in June.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_33.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_33.jpg)  
Emergency workers carry a wounded man out of a collapsed building in Mianyang, China, after it was destroyed by an earthquake in May.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_34.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_34.jpg)  
A woman with drug resistant tuberculosis is comforted by her mother inside their home in Ngcina, Swaziland.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_35.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_35.jpg)  
Siamoy, an Afghan woman from remote Badakhshan province in Afghanistan, feeds her one-month old baby. The remote, mountain region has the highest maternity mortality rate in the world.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_36.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_36.jpg)  
Teresa Jeffs, 16, a daughter of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founder Warren Jeffs, shows off some of her best trampoline moves. In April, Texas authorities raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch, home to several hundred members of the FLDS, on the basis of a phone “tip” that suggested that some of the children living on the compound were the victims of sexual abuse. While the courts struggled to determine the best way to sort out the complex legal issues presented by the case, some of the families resided at this house in New Braunfels.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_37.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_37.jpg)  
British artist Damien Hirst is elevated above his workspace in Stroud, England. In September, an auction devoted exclusively to his work earned $198 million.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_38.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_38.jpg)  
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dons 3-D glasses to watch a program about an Iranian rocket during a visit to Iran’s space control center in Tehran.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_39.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_39.jpg)  
Pope Benedict’s Mass at Yankee Stadium is broadcast on a television in a bar in the Bronx.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_40.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_40.jpg)  
Cardboard cutouts of John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin stand near the press section of the Straight Talk Air campaign plane.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_41.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_41.jpg)  
Hillary Clinton departs a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_42.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_42.jpg)  
Not to be outdone by two aides who each did a pair of pull-ups, Obama does three before stepping out to address a crowd at the University of Montana.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_43.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_43.jpg)  
A young supporter of the GOP ticket arrives at a campaign event on Halloween Day dressed as vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_44.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_44.jpg)  
Cindy McCain waits while her husband works goes over a speech in a hotel room in Dallas.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_45.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_45.jpg)  
Barack Obama works the phones during a campaign stop in Providence, Rhode Island.

![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_46.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip_2008/yip_46.jpg)  
Obama and his wife Michelle depart the stage in Grant Park after winning the Presidential election on November 4, 2008.

![http://www.micahweber.com/T1.jpg](http://www.micahweber.com/T1.jpg)  
Micah Weber of Western New York, purchases a new vehicle that is appropriate for his age of 28.

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**Author:** ![ILC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilc/32/5337_2.png) [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/2 "2008-12-17T14:53:28Z")

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lol nice insert

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**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/3 "2008-12-17T14:56:25Z")

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hqahahahha… great pics… congrats on the new car…

best new car thread ever.

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**Author:** ![MOBOOST4U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/4 "2008-12-17T15:01:40Z")

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Some really great pics…

I love the last one lol

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**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/5 "2008-12-17T15:08:24Z")

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Awesome pictures…

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**Author:** ![burnt\_toast](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/burnt_toast/32/7518_2.png) [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/6 "2008-12-17T15:18:19Z")

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hahahah awesome… great pictures. vry snky

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**Author:** ![Minglor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minglor/32/7373_2.png) [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/7 "2008-12-17T15:41:57Z")

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awesome thread.

Nice buy.

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**Author:** ![upstateclipse](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/upstateclipse/32/7348_2.png) [@upstateclipse](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/upstateclipse)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/8 "2008-12-17T15:45:34Z")

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great addition

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**Author:** ![llink78](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/llink78/32/8037_2.png) [@llink78](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/llink78)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/9 "2008-12-17T15:49:13Z")

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you should of had that pic of your car somewhere in the middle

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**Author:** ![fbrendan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/10 "2008-12-17T15:51:23Z")

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lol :tup:

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**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/11 "2008-12-17T19:54:03Z")

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A+ LOL material.

I love those pics…

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**Author:** ![walter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/walter/32/7202_2.png) [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/12 "2008-12-18T06:42:49Z")

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Most of them were pretty meh to me it seemed. Don’t know why, normally they are much better. And I like the people that seem to have missed your real new car thread, perhaps they need to spend less time in OT and more time in GA.

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**Author:** ![newman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/newman/32/7569_2.png) [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/13 "2008-12-18T07:14:50Z")

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> [@MicaH"](#):
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> **![http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip\_2008/yip\_27.jpg](http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/yip\_2008/yip\_27.jpg) Laid off from his job at Wachovia Bank in March, Gregory Gochtovtt, 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, decided to enlist in the National Guard. He shipped out to Iraq in December.**

i really like this one.

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**Author:** ![walter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/walter/32/7202_2.png) [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/14 "2008-12-18T07:37:21Z")

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^ because of the slippers!

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**Author:** ![walter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/walter/32/7202_2.png) [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/15 "2008-12-18T09:28:22Z")

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Better thread: NatGeo

> [@d4z3d1"](#):
>
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/10_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/10_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **10. [“Uncontacted” Tribe Seen in Amazon](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080530-uncontacted-tribes-photo.html)**
> 
> Shown in National Geographic News’s tenth most viewed individual photo of 2008, members of an “uncontacted” Amazon tribe fire arrows at an airplane above the rain forest borderlands of [Peru](http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_peru.html) and [Brazil](http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_brazil.html) in May. The natural dyes covering their bodies probably signal aggression, native-rights experts say.
> 
> (See [another photo, plus video of the tribe’s camp, in our in-depth look](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080603-uncontacted-tribes.html) at whether this group should be approached.)
> 
> Later it was revealed that, though this tribe apparently is truly uncontacted, [authorities have known about it for decades](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080619-uncontacted-tribe.html).
> 
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/9_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/9_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **9. [Venus, Jupiter, Moon Smile on Earth](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081202-venus-jupiter-photo.html)**
> 
> The heavens smiled down on Earth on December 1 in a rare celestial trifecta of [Venus](http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/venus-article.html), [Jupiter](http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/jupiter-article.html), and the moon (shown here over Manila in the Philippines).
> 
> (Related: [“Sky Show December 1: Jupiter, Venus, Moon to Make ‘Frown’”](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081201-jupiter-venus.html).)
> 
> People in Asia saw a smiley face while sky-watchers in the United States saw a frown, though we’re sure it was nothing personal.
> 
> **[More about this photo \>\>](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081202-venus-jupiter-photo.html)**
> 
>  
> 
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/8_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/8_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **8. [Colossal Squid Revealed in First In-Depth Look](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/photogalleries/colossalsquid-pictures/)**
> 
> The carcass of a colossal squid floats in a tank at the Museum of New Zealand on April 30, giving scientists their first close look at the elusive deep-sea creature.
> 
> The squid was frozen for months after being caught by fishers off Antarctica in 2007. A dissection of the thawed beast yielded astonishing discoveries, including the animal kingdom’s largest eyes and light-emitting organs that may serve as cloaking devices, scientists said.
> 
> [**More photos of the squid dissection\>\>**](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/photogalleries/colossalsquid-pictures/)
> 
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/7_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/7_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **7. [Hurricane Ike Pummels Houston](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/photogalleries/Hurricane-Ike-pictures/)**
> 
> On September 13 a worker inspects damage in front of the JPMorgan Chase Tower in downtown Houston, Texas, after powerful Hurricane Ike slammed into the Gulf Coast, damaging buildings, flooding streets, and knocking out power for millions of people.
> 
> With winds reaching 110 miles (177 kilometers) an hour, Ike came ashore above Galveston, Texas, as a strong Category 2 storm just after 3 a.m. ET.
> 
> **[More photos of Hurricane Ike’s devastation \>\>](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/photogalleries/Hurricane-Ike-pictures/)**
> 
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/6_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/6_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **6. [Giant Stingrays Found Near Thai City](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/photogalleries/stingray-pictures/index.html)**
> 
> Recreational fishers and biologist [Zeb Hogan](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/explorers/zeb-hogan.html?nav=FEATURES) (wearing cap) hold a live, 14-foot-long (4.3-meter-long) giant freshwater stingray the fishers caught in [Thailand’](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_thailand.html)s Bang Pakong River on March 31. The species can reportedly grow to 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms), which would make them the largest freshwater fish in the world, Hogan said.
> 
> After weeks of combing remote Southeast Asian rivers for giant freshwater stingrays, Hogan finally found the creature near the city of Chachoengsao. To his surprise, she gave birth soon after capture. ([Read full story.](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080429-giant-stingray.html))
> 
> **[More photos of giant stingrays \>\>](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/photogalleries/stingray-pictures/index.html)**
> 
>  
> 
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/5_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/5_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **5. [Alien-like Squid Seen at Deep Drilling Site](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/photogalleries/squid-magnapinna-photos/)**
> 
> A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, this alien-like, long-armed, and–strangest of all–“elbowed” _Magnapinna_ squid is seen in a still from a video clip obtained by National Geographic News and published on November 24. ([See video and read full story](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html).)
> 
> The video–obtained by a Shell oil company ROV (remotely operated vehicle) at an ultra-deep oil- and gas-drilling site–sparked shocked reactions everywhere from [the Digg link-sharing site](http://digg.com/general_sciences/Alien_Like_Squid_With_Elbows_Filmed_at_Deep_Drilling_Site) to CNN’s _Anderson Cooper 360_ ([watch CNN clip](http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/12/04/ac.shot.wed.cnn)).
> 
> **[More photos of the “elbowed” squid \>](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/photogalleries/squid-magnapinna-photos/)**
> 
>  
> 
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/4_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/4_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **4. [“Stowstorm Leopard” Is Big Winner](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/photogalleries/best-animal-wildlife-photos/)**
> 
> Stalking India’s Hemis National Park, an extremely rare [snow leopard](http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/snow-leopard.html) lives up to its name in U.S. photographer Steve Winter’s award-winning _National Geographic_ magazine image.
> 
> On October 30, 2008, “Snowstorm Leopard” was named best overall photo in the **2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition** , organized by the Natural History Museum of London and _BBC Wildlife Magazine._
> 
> “This is the hardest story I have ever done because of the altitude and the steepness of the mountains,” the U.S. photographer told _National Geographic._ “At night it was 30 below zero [Fahrenheit].” (The National Geographic Society owns both National Geographic News and _National Geographic_ magazine.)
> 
> **[More of the best wild-animal photos of 2008 \>\>](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/photogalleries/best-animal-wildlife-photos/)**
> 
>  
> 
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/3_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/3_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **3. [Giant Starfish Among Strange Animals Found off Antarctica](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/photogalleries/Antarctica-pictures/)**
> 
> Giant [sea stars](http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/starfish.html?nav=A-Z), or starfish, that measure 24 inches (60 centimeters) across are held by Sadie Mills, left, and Niki Davey of [New Zealand](http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_newzealand.html)’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research on February 15.
> 
> They and other researchers collected 30,000 sea creatures–many new to science–during a 35-day census in Antarctic waters in February and March.
> 
> **[More photos of strange and new Antarctic sea creatures \>\>](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/photogalleries/Antarctica-pictures/)**
> 
>  
> 
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/2_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/2_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **2. [Lizard-Snake Deadlock Steals the Show](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/photogalleries/best-animal-wildlife-photos/photo4.html)**
> 
> An aptly named winner of the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest, “Deadlock” was captured in the dead of night in a [Belizean](http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_belize.html) rain forest.
> 
> U.K.-based David Maitland observed from midnight to 3 a.m. as a rare Morelet’s tree frog doggedly refused to become supper for a cat-eyed snake–and still didn’t see the conclusion. “I was exhausted,” the photographer said.
> 
> The image may have lost out to a snow leopard photo for the contest’s top honors, but “Deadlock”–the second most viewed photo posted on National Geographic News in 2008–appears to be the people’s choice.
> 
> **[More of the best wild-animal photos of 2008 \>\>](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/photogalleries/best-animal-wildlife-photos/)**
> 
>  
> 
> ![http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/1_toptenphotos_461.jpg](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/images/primary/1_toptenphotos_461.jpg)
> 
> **1. [Chile Volcano Erupts With Ash and Lightning](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/photogalleries/volcano-photos/)**
> 
> Captured in National Geographic News’s most viewed individual photo of 2008, Chile’s Chaiten volcano erupts on May 3 after 9,000 years of silence.
> 
> The blast may have generated a “dirty thunderstorm.” These little-understood storms may be caused when rock fragments, ash, and ice particles collide to produce static charges–just as ice particles collide to create charges in regular thunderstorms.
> 
> The eruption, which continued off and on for months, forced the evacuation of thousands of residents and cattle from this corner of Patagonia.
> 
> **[More photos of this eruption \>\>](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/photogalleries/volcano-photos/)**
> 
>  
> 
> **:sadwavey:**

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**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/16 "2008-12-18T09:34:31Z")

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that #1 pic is so sick walter

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**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/17 "2008-12-18T09:35:30Z")

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^It looks like a scene from a movie… That’s awesome.

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**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/18 "2008-12-18T09:35:32Z")

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very cool pictures :tup:

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**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/19 "2008-12-18T09:40:03Z")

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Time’s photographers need a lesson on exposure

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**Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/awesome-thread-times-pics-of-the-year-2008/59925/20 "2008-12-18T09:45:47Z")

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I want a HIGH RES of that one, i wonder where i could find it

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