Photos selected from a gallery of 51 images at Der Spiegel's best of 2009. Follow this link for a gallery of the best of 2008.
06 January 2010
Photos from Der Spiegel
This 45-minute exposure of a dilapitated barn near Iron River, Wisconsin captures the motion of stars. During the time exposure, the barn was lit with a battery-powered spotlight using a technique called light painting. The bright star in the upper right corner is Polaris, the North Star.
A worker fills a cardboard tube with gunpowder to make a firecracker in the Indian city of Siliguri. Fireworks are a major part of the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali.
A Ukrainian draftee is inspected at a military training center in Ukraine. Nearly 20,000 recruits were drafted in Ukraine this year.
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Okay, I'm going to be nit-picky here and point out that recruits are recruited and draftees are drafted.
ReplyDeleteNice ass, btw.