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2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up
the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try
to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008
in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but
as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the
past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days.
1st and 2nd are sent earlier.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama waves to the crowd at a
rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va.
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A general view shows a "solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville,
Spain on November 6, 2008. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to
concentrate the sun's rays onto the top of a 100 meter (300 foot) tower where it
produces steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity. (REUTERS/Marcelo Del
Pozo)
Astronaut Karen Nyberg, STS-124 mission specialist, looks through a window in
the newly installed Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station while
Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station on June 10th, 2008. (NASA)
In this March 11, 2008 photo, a boy plays soccer at La Boca neighborhood in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A Kosovo Albanian man in the Kosovo town of Stimlje, south of the capital
Pristina, tries to rescue his horse after it veered off the road and fell into a
river March 26, 2008. (REUTERS/Hazir Reka)
Staff stand in a meeting room at the Lehman Brothers offices in the financial
district of Canary Wharf in London September 11, 2008. Lehman Brothers
eventually filed for bankruptcy - the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history - and
was delisted from the NYSE, and later liquidated.
A U.S. Marine with a ground combat element assigned to Delta Company, 2nd Light
Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Task Force Mechanized, Multi-National Force -
West walks through the Hatra Ruins in the Jazeerah Desert in Iraq on July 20,
2008. The task force is conducting disruption operations in the area to deny the
enemy sanctuary and prevent foreign fighters from accessing the area. (Lance
Cpl. Albert F. Hunt, U.S. Marine Corps.)
A young sapphire miner holds on tight to a rope as he is lowered into a deep
hole in the ground in a field in Anzanakaro near Ilakaka, Madagascar on
September 14, 2008. Local miners and many of their family members work deep
narrow holes where they scrape gravel and sand in search of sapphires. (ROBERTO
SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (lower right) waves as he
arrives at a rally of 100,000 supporters in St. Louis, Mo., Saturday, Oct. 18,
2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
In this April 30, 2008 photo, a young Iraqi boy poses for a photo after
graduating from kindergarten in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)
Most of the homes in the Oakridge mobile home park, which reportedly had 600-800
homes, lie in ruins after burning in the Sylmar Fire on November 15, 2008 in
Sylmar, California. The fire began last night and was fueled to more than 2,600
acres by strong erratic winds in excess of 70 miles per hour which kept
firefighting aircraft grounded in the morning. (David McNew/Getty Images)
The bodies of two Palestinian militants lay near their mortar launcher after an
Israeli airstrike in Gaza November 16, 2008. They had been firing mortar rounds
into a neighboring Israeli neighborhood. An Israeli air strike killed four
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and two rockets fired from the
Hamas-controlled territory hit Israel as a five-month-old ceasefire continued to
unravel. (REUTERS/Stringer)
Mateja Robnik of Slovenia negotiates a track of the women's giant slalom FIS
World Cup event in Maribor, Slovenia January 12, 2008. (REUTERS/Petr Josek)
A military helicopter transporting soldiers and engineers prepares to land near
the Tangjiashan quake lake area at earthquake-hit Beichuan, Sichuan province,
China on May 27, 2008. China had evacuated more than 150,000 people living below
a swollen lake formed by this month's devastating earthquake amid fears it could
burst and trigger massive flooding, state media said on Wednesday.
(REUTERS/China Daily)
21-year-old Ajmal Kasab, one of ten terrorists who attacked Mumbai, India on
November 26th, 2008 walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway
station, carrying weapons and duffel bags of ammunition. Kasab and his cohorts -
all from Pakistan - killed over 170 people over the course of three days, until
all except Kasab were killed by Indian forces. (AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror,
Sebastian D'souza)
A competitor dives from the 14 meter-high bridge over Drina river during annual
high diving competition in Bosnian town of Visegrad July 12, 2008.
(REUTERS/Stringer)
Men are caught in a dust storm while playing cricket at a playground in Kabul,
Afghanistan on March 31, 2008. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
Internally Displaced People leave Kibati heading north from the city to their
villages, Kibumba and Rugari, north of the provincial capital of Goma, Congo, on
November 2, 2008. Several thousand people displaced in the fighting between
rebels and government troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo began
returning home Sunday as a ceasefire held, an AFP correspondent on the scene
reported. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)
An earthquake survivor tries to figure out where his home used to be at the
Donghekou Earthquake Relics Park, which covers one town and five villages
including Donghekou Village, on November 11, 2008 in Qingchuan County of Sichuan
Province, China. The park, which is the first memorial site after the massive
Wenchuan Earthquake, was opened to the public on November 12, 2008. (China
Photos/Getty Images)
Casey Stoner of Australia and the Ducati Team in action on a wet track, during a
practice run for the Australian MotoGP at the Phillip Island Circuit on October
3, 2008 in Phillip Island, Australia. (Robert Cianflone/Getty Images)
A young man with an arrow in his head arrives at hospital following ethnic
clashes in the town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area January 26, 2008. Kenyans
in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru feared more violence on Saturday after a
disputed election triggered pitched battles between ethnic gangs that killed at
least a dozen people. (REUTERS/Peter Andrews)
A man's hand drips blood as he stands in front of riot policemen during a
demonstration in Athens, part of a days-long series of demonstrations throughout
Greece on December 9, 2008. (REUTERS/John Kolesidis)
Republican presidential candidate John McCain makes his acceptance speech during
the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Duncan Zuur of the Netherlands rides a wakeboard across flooded Piazza San Marco
in Venice, Italy as the recent "acqua alta" (high water) reached a depth of 1.56
meters (5 ft, 1 in.) on December 2, 2008. (REUTERS/Handout/Euro-Newsroom.com/Joerg
Mitter)
Soldiers maintain order amongst stranded passengers outside a railway station in
Guangzhou, Guangdong province, February 3, 2008. A stampede at Guangzhou railway
station killed one person when frustrated passengers rushed to board trains
after days of cancellations because of fierce cold and snow, police confirmed on
Sunday. (REUTERS/Daniel Chan)
An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of
Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members
of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts
of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless
peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against
police using tear gas and trained dogs, and were evicted from the land.
(REUTERS/Luiz Vasconcelos-A Critica/AE)
This sequence of 12 frames was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over a span of
about 45 minutes on March 12, 2008. In that brief time, Cassini covered almost
40,000 kilometers in its approach to a flyby encounter with Enceladus, one of
the moons of Saturn. The overexposure and smearing of the images gives a hint of
the raw speed involved - 14.4 km/sec (or 32,211 mph). Shortly after this
sequence, at its closest, Cassini approached within 52 km (32.3 miles) of the
surface of Enceladus. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
A firefighting airplane drops water on the burning Turkish ship Undadriyatik in
the waters near town of Rovinj, Croatia in the northern Adriatic Sea on Feb. 6,
2008. (AP Photo/FILE)
A U.S. Army helicopter gunner, his helmet face painted as a skull, awaits
soldiers to board his Chinook transport helicopter October 30, 2008 for
transport out of the Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents
had attacked a nearby U.S. Army outpost, and the Americans responded with
machine guns, mortars and helicopter gunships. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Thousands of black clad Israeli Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Arieh Levish
Teitelbaum, one of the Israeli victims of the Mumbai attacks, on December 2,
2008 in Jerusalem. Wailing and chanting psalms, thousands of people bid a final
farewell today to the six Jews killed in last week's bloody Mumbai attacks and
whose bodies were flown to Israel for burial. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty
Images)
Pakistani men try to rescue a donkey buried during an earthquake in Ziarat,
about 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Quetta, Pakistan on October 30th, 2008.
Rescue workers searched through the rubble of villages destroyed by a powerful
earthquake in southwestern Pakistan that killed at least 215 people. (AP
Photo/Emilio Morenatti/FILE)
The Chinese Shenzhou-7 manned spaceship, the Long-March II-F rocket and the
escape tower are transferred to the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch
Center, Gansu province, China on September 20, 2008. Taikonaut Zhai Zhigang
performed China's first-ever spacewalk on the successful mission.
(REUTERS/Stringer).
An Indian policeman holds a shield against stone-throwing Kashmiri Muslim
protesters in Srinagar September 9, 2008. More than two dozen people including
10 policemen were injured in Kashmir on Tuesday when police clashed with
hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in fresh protests against Indian rule
in the area. (Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)
People drop lines in holes on a frozen river at an event to fish trout in
Hwacheon, South Korea, about 20 km (12 miles) south of the demilitarised zone
separating two Koreas, northeast of Seoul January 13, 2008. More than 1,000,000
people attend at the annual ice festival which lasts for three weeks in January.
(REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won )
A patient with advanced pulmonary TB in a tuberculosis hospital in Mumbai, India
receives a daily injection as well as oxygen. Photojournalist James Nachtwey
brought us (through photography) a story this year of a new, dangerous type of
tuberculosis called Extreme Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. Tuberculosis
is both preventable and curable, but inadequate treatment has been driving the
emergence of XDR-TB, especially in developing nations. For more information
about XDR-TB, please visit xdrtb.org. (© James Nachtwey/VII)
Images of books on shelves are seen projected on the walls of the Tower of David
in Jerusalem's Old City - part of a show called "Or Shalem, Jerusalem Lights the
Night", staged by a group called Skertzņ on October 7, 2008. The Tower of David
is a massive citadel that, over the centuries, has served as a fortress,
military barracks and cannon position. These days, the Tower serves as a popular
tourist site. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Austrian pilot Hannes Arch flies during the Red Bull Air Race World Series, with
the Hungarian Parliament Building in the background, in Budapest, Hungary on
August 20, 2008. (REUTERS/Karoly Arvai)
The moon and stars light up Mount Everest, also known as Qomolangma, as seen
from near Everest Base Camp in the Tibet Autonomous Region April 29, 2008.
(REUTERS/David Gray)
U.S. President George W. Bush walks back to the Oval Office after making remarks
at the White House in Washington March 13, 2008. (REUTERS/Jim Young)
A spectator raises her fist in celebration seconds after it was announced that
Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States at Ebenezer
Baptist Church, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Pouya Dianat, Atlanta Journal &
Constitution)
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