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December 28, 2008: Deal Me In

December 29, 2008: Vigil for Homicide Victims

It's that time of the year again when we get to look at lots of year-end compilations. I got carried away as usual and sought out a whole bunch lot of them. Here are some links:

The Boston Globe's Big Picture:

Time's Pictures of the Year 2008:

Sports Illustrated's Greatest Shots of 2008:

The Wall Street Journal's Year in Pictures:

MSNBC's Year in Pictures

National Geographic's Most Viewed Galleries of 2008:

Chicago Tribune's Joy and Sorrow in 2008:

International Herald Tribune's 2008 in Pictures:

L.A. Times' Best Arts & Entertainment photography of 2008

Vanity Fair's Year in Pictures:

I'll have my own "best of" on New Years Day, culled from 366 Daily Photos I posted in 2008.

The New York Times didn't have their "Year in Pictures" site up yet over the weekend when I compiled all the links in my previous post, so I'm adding it here now.

The photos are just outstanding.

But what's even more extraordinary is the newspaper offers up such a marvelous, interesting, entertaining, enlightening and unique view of our world - all produced by staff photographers and freelancers working on assignment.

That is especially impressive these days when any newspaper, magazine, or website can fill themselves entirely with all the exact same photographs as every other newspaper, magazine or website. It makes you appreciate what exclusive content really means.

December 30, 2008: Jetty, Sea Isle City

December 31, 2008: String Band Tunes Up

Happy New Year.

Here's a really quick video of ALL 366 Daily Photos I posted on this blog this year. All the photos are here, and a gallery of selects here.

The violinist is my daughter Madeline.
The piece is Bach's Unaccompanied Sonata No. 1 in G minor: 4. Presto