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  • David Longstreath/AP

    Members of Myanmar's ruling military junta look on during Armed Forces Day celebrations, March 27, 2007, in the new capital of Naypyitaw. Myanmar, an impoverished nation rich in natural resources, has been ruled by the brutal military junta for decades.

    We've seen lots of great pictures of protests in Myanmar, but almost nothing of the "ruling junta" referred to in the captions. Who are these secretive leaders and why do they have such an iron grip on power? Judging from this photo earlier this year, they don't smile much. To learn more about the junta, go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21065812/

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  • Shuji Kajiyama/AP

    An elderly man carries a pile of foam polystyrene on a flatbed delivery tricycle in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007. Despite huge increases in the number of cars, vans and trucks on China's roads, tricycles are still popular for transporting small loads.

    Photojournalist Shuji Kajiyama shows us an oversized load very different from any you'd see on American streets.

  • /AP

    Protesters' sandals are scattered on the ground as Myanmar soldiers look on after firing automatic weapons into a crowd in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. Soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of anti-government demonstrators as tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters braved a crackdown that has drawn international appeals for restraint by the ruling military junta.

    I'm amazed at how often I see images of shoes left behind in our picture feeds, when people encounter situations that are so stressful and often violent that they run out of their shoes in the panic.

  • Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

    A parishioner of St. Paul Community Baptist Church stands in the Atlantic Ocean during a Maafa commemoration in New York on Saturday, Sept. 22. The ceremony honors the millions of Africans lost in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

    The multimedia editors have decided to begin posting the selections for The Week in Pictures for discussion with insight to our choices. This is the msnbc.com slide show edited most in the spirit of Photoblog, images are chosen more for their visual impact than for any other reason by a panel of 3 multimedia editors each week, majority rule. Let us know what you think of our selections and view and vote on all of The Week in Pictures images: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/ . All 3 editors were caught off guard when we read the caption to find that this photo was made in New York and not a remote African beach. It's nice to find such a beautiful image made in an unexpected place.

  • Stringer/russia/Reuters

    Nadia, a 17-pound newborn, lies next to a smaller baby in a maternity ward in the Siberian city of Barnaul on Wednesday, Sept. 26. Tatyana Barabanova shocked her husband by giving birth to the large baby girl this month. It was her 12th child.

    This picture made us laugh, all thanks to the infant on the right who happened to turn his head in the direction of the much bigger baby. View and vote on all of The Week in Pictures selections: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

  • Pat Roque/AP

    A worker uses a power tool to cut seized firearms into pieces in Quezon, Philippines, on Friday, Sept. 21. The military has begun destroying some 32,000 weapons which were confiscated from rebels and criminals.

    We were attracted by the cool light show in this image, but appreciated how the composition of the photo helps pull you into the frame to show you the gun barrels which are the news of this image. View and vote on all of The Week in Pictures selections: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

  • Erin Pence/ASSOCIATED PRESS

    A frog blends in with algae in the pond at roadside park in Sidney, Ohio Thursday, Sept.20, 2007.

    The photojournalist, Erin Pence, said she stumbled upon this scene as she went about her day recently. I'm glad she did -- the vibrant color, and interesting detail of the spots of algae make for a great frame. View and vote on all of The Week in Pictures selections:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

  • Sebastian Scheiner/AP

    Ultra-orthodox Jews examine green branches ahead of the upcoming holiday of Sukkot in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Sept. 25. During the harvest festival, known as the Feast of the Tabernacles, Jews are commanded to bind together a palm frond, or lulav, with myrtle and willow branches, which, along with a citron, comprise the "four species" used in holiday rituals.

    This image struck us as a perfectly composed moment in a very busy, messy environment. This image works so well with the hands reaching into the frame from every angle, but no information is lost in the overlap. The men shown seem to function like gears in a machine; parts intersecting one another, but not taking away (visual) information from anything else in the frame. As Meredith pointed out during the edit, it almost appears to be a time-lapse image of one man looking as if he's in 8 places at once.View and vote on all of The Week in Pictures selections: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

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    Wafaa Hussein mourns her dead son, Thaer, at a morgue northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, Sept. 16. The 6-year-old was shot by an unidentified sniper while riding with his family in a bus from Baghdad to Baquba.

    All three editors agreed this image should be included this week. We were struck by how the photographer was able to convey a horrible scene with such tenderness, particularly in the way the hands of the mother and child are touching one another. The interaction reminded us of the Pieta by Michelangelo. View and vote on all of The Week in Pictures selections: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

  • /Mizzima News via EPA

    Buddhist monks march in protest against Myanmars military junta in Yangon on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Thousands of monks and other pro-democracy activists have defied a military curfew and warnings of reprisals by marching on the Sule Pagoda, at the heart of the former Myanmar capital, in a protest that has grown increasingly bloody as troops crack down on demonstrators.

    There's a great sense of crowd in this picture, created by the foreshortening and the countless bald heads. Do you think that their uniform dress adds to a sense of purpose, or makes them more formidable?

  • Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters

    Talibes, or religious students, pause to listen to their teacher between reading verses from the Koran at an Islamic school in Thies, Senegal, on Tuesday, Sept. 24. The students beg on the streets, collecting alms for a marabout, or religious leader, in return for food, accommodation and religious lessons as part of Senegal's Mouride sect of Islam.

    The light in this photograph is beautifully sculpted and the colors of the students' garments work so perfectly together. The image is simple in composition, and while at first I was bothered by the way the boy in the foreground's ear blocks the middle boy's right eye - I found myself drawn to that part of the frame and how perfectly the ear follows the middle child's nose ridge. This painterly image was a unanimous "in" as a beautiful addition to this week. View and vote on all of The Week in Pictures selections: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

  • R.C. White/AP

    Bob Roberts, the pilot of a small plane that crashed onto Interstate 95 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sits in the remains of his plane, waiting for emergency officials to take him to the hospital for treatment, Friday, Sept. 21, 2007. The plane crashed shortly after take off.

    From a technical and compositional standpoint, this image isn't the best, but the immediacy and "wow" factor of the scene convinced us to include it in the slide show. View and vote on all of The Week in Pictures selections:

  • Gautam Singh/AP

    Devotees shower water on the idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh before its immersion in the Arabian Sea on the final day of the ten-day Ganesh festival in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday, Sept. 25.

    I was the original advocate for this image because I love the muted color palette of the wet, usually bright blue, orange and red garments between the gray water and sky, the "whooshing" movement of the waves lapping in from the corners of the frame and the contrast to this scene made by the looming, brightly colored deity in front of the urban city in the background. The complexity of this surreal scene really makes a visual feast - the picture has so much moodiness, it's like a scene from a film. View and vote on all of The Week in Pictures selections: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

  • Charles Dharapak/AP

    President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attend a meeting of the Security Council on Africa at the United Nations on Tuesday, Sept. 25. Bush used his speech before the General Assembly to highlight humanitarian efforts around the globe and called on the U.N. to honor its human-rights charter.

    Many pictures we see of the president come from situations in which his presence is the event.At the UN, we see the president participating in a process broader than his office.

  • China Photos/Getty Images

    A farmer from Chinas Henan province picks cotton on Saturday, Sept. 22. About one million farm workers from surrounding provinces have traveled to the region to pick cotton. Each is expected to earn about $266 for two months work from August to November.

    This image was a hands down choice for The Week in Pictures this week. The serene and balanced composition and the peaceful expression on the woman's face really come together to take it beyond being just another agriculture photo. Editor Meredith Birkett and I felt reminiscences of Dorothea Lange images from the early 20th century. View and vote on all of The Week in Pictures selections: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

  • /Pascale Zintzen / MSF via Reuters

    Staff of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) treat one of two suspected Ebola patients in the isolation unit of Kampungu in Congo's Eastern Kasai province, September 26, 2007. Eight more cases of the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    It'd be scary to see doctors dressed this way in order to treat you. That said, I'd rather receive care from people in haz mat suits than not at all. And those doctors are a long way from the comfortable life they could be enjoying.

  • Matt Rourke/AP

    A two-headed red slider turtle is displayed at Big Al's Aquarium Supercenter in East Norriton, Pa., Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007.

    What a cool turtle!

  • Ariana Cubillos/AP

    Clowns Without Borders perform for a patient at the Doctors Without Border's hospital in the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Aug. 31,2007. Clowns Without Borders, a group that brings comic relief to conflict-torn areas around the world, visited the impoverished country's largest slum, entertaining patients at a hospital that only a year ago was seeing several gunshot victims each day.

    This image and its subject caught my eye as being a mixture of odd and interesting elements. I find it intriguing that as well as doctors traveling to countries in need to offer their services for free, clowns have also joined the ranks of ambassadors working to bring a smile to those who might need one. This patient doesn't look like she's so sure about their efforts.

  • Cate Gillon/Getty Images

    Travelers take a second glance at a model of a giant lady with her head stuck in a photo booth being exhibited in Victoria train station on September 21, 2007 in London, England. The figure is in place to unveil London Ink which will air on Discovery Real Time.

    This image was considered for this weeks' Week in Pictures slide show because it made each of the editors laugh with its unexpected bizarreness among the everyday atmosphere of the train station. While it didn't make the final cut of stellar images this week, and I wish there was a little more candid reaction from the crowd shown, I love that it took me a moment to discern if the model was very large or the surroundings were very small.

  • Mohanned Faisal/Reuters

    A boy with empty plastic bottles attached to his back stands on the bank of a water used to irrigate a farm in the villageof Falluja, 30 miles west of Baghdad August 20, 2007. The boy used the empty bottles to help him float.

    This photo reminds me of that nervous feeling when learning to swim of getting in the water by yourself for the first time. I'm not sure if my confidence level would be helped much by having pop bottles strapped to my back, but it's an interesting homemade version of the floaties many of us grew up using.

  • Aman Sharma/AP

    A boy dressed as a Hindu God waits in a classroom before participating in a religious procession for Janamashtami at a government school, in Amritsar, India Monday, Sept. 3, 2007. Janmashtami marks the birthday of Hindu God Krishna.

    The colors of the boy's costume are such a bold contrast to the starkness of the urban-looking school. The photographer seems to have captured the juxtaposition of an ancient culture, its traditions and beauty with the somewhat dilapidated surroundings. I'm also wondering how this little boy, dressed as a God, feels about his upcoming role in the festivities. His posture, the focal length of the lens used and especially the color palette really make this an interesting photo.

  • Nacho Doce/Reuters

    Porto's Ricardo Quaresma, left, fights for the ball with Pacos Ferreira's Roversio de Barros during their Portuguese Premier League soccer match on Sunday, Sept. 23.

    This image was published in the latest edition of The Week in Sports Pictures, so I wanted to give viewers an opportunity to discuss them. The eyes do it for me in this picture.

  • Andrey Golovanov/AFP - Getty Images

    Joseph Williams of the U.S., left, wrestles with Reza Yazdani of Iran in the 84-kilogram freestyle category in the 2007 Fila Wrestling Senior World Championships on Friday, Sept. 20.

    This image was published in the latest edition of The Week in Sports Pictures, so I wanted to give viewers an opportunity to discuss them. I've photographed a lot of high school wrestling, and most of that is faces on the floor and a tangle of limbs. This situation seemed a little odd to me. It looks like something out of professional wrestling.

  • David Richard/AP

    Cleveland Indians pitcher Fausto Carmona is doused with beer by pitcher C.C. Sabathia, left, in the locker room after the Indians beat the Oakland Athletics 6-2 to clinch the American League Central Division title on Sunday, Sept. 23.

    This image was published in the latest edition of The Week in Sports Pictures, so I wanted to give viewers an opportunity to discuss them. I'm against wasting beer, but it's okay if a good picture comes from it. I like the way the beer clings to Fausto Carmona head and face. It's a great celebration shot.

  • Jamie Squire/Getty Images

    Kansas Jayhawks fans cheer their football team during their game against Florida International on Saturday, Sept. 22.

    This image was published in the latest edition of The Week in Sports Pictures, so I wanted to give viewers an opportunity to discuss them. I like the visual rhythms and repetitions in this picture.

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