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Groningen's Fredrik Stenman, right, fights Fiorentina's Franco Semioli for the ball during their UEFA Cup match in Groningen, Netherlands, on Thursday, 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 see a lot of soccer header pictures, but I can't remember the last time I saw one where both players hit it at the same time.
Thanassis Stavrakis/AP
Yiming Xiao from China performs in the individual rope final during the 28th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Patras, Greece on Friday, Sept. 21.
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. It's amazing that Yiming Xiao can do this, and it's impressive that Thanassis Stavrakis is quick enough to capture a picture of it.
Todd Dudek/AP
NASCAR driver John Andretti's car bursts into flames after a crash during the Nextel Cup Dodge Dealers 400 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've heard that people watch racing to see the crashes. I'll admit to that, because watching a pack of agressive drivers turn left for a few hours is just a little too close to the reality of my daily commute.
Nick Wass/AP
Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis (26) rolls over as he scores on a one-yard run against New York Giants safety James Butler (37) during the first quarter 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 impact of the player's helmet on the ground is what attracted me to this picture. It's a decisive moment, and the photographer did a great job catching it.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
An upper-deck outfield seat is painted white to mark a long home run by 1960's-era Washington Senator Frank Howard at RFK Stadium. This weekend's games mark the last time Major League Baseball is scheduled to be played at RFK. The Nationals will move from the 1960's-era multi-use municipal stadium to a new baseball-only park in April 2008.
There is something sad each time a major league ballpark is put out to pasture. Only Fenway in Boston, Wrigley in Chicago and Yankee Stadium in New York are older than RFK Stadium. It was home to the Senators, the Redskins and the Nationals and rock acts like the Beatles and U2. The late evening sunlight, the wooden seats and the peeling paint create a nostalgic mood.
Toru Hanai/Reuters
Honda's MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa of Spain tumbles during the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi, north of Tokyo September 23, 2007.
Man, there has to be an easier way to make a living!
Aris Messinis /AFP - Getty Images
The Japanese team performs with the rope during the Group All-Around final of the 28th Rythmic Gymnastics World Championship in Patra, Greece, 22 September 2007.
I like it. Its an interesting rhythmic gymnastics picture.
Robert Hood/msnbc.com
A flower in full bloom at the Yakima Fruit Stand in Bothell, WA. on Saturday, Sept. 22.
I was out shooting an assignment early this morning when I looked down and noticed this flower. The color was almost unreal. Does anyone know what kind of flower it is?
Rodrigo Abd/AP file
Peasants set broccoli into crates to be carried to city markets in Solola, Guatemala, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007.
This photo captured a visual order that was intrinsic to the scene and the moment, a balance between colors and forms. The photographer didn't force this frame with a wide lens or unusual perspective, he simply recognized it in the world; people who talk about photography sometimes call this "good seeing." How much does it matter, if at all?
Carlos Hugo Vaca/Reuters
Paulo Victor Aguilera (top) of Bolivia, Latin American champion of BMX bicycle motocross, or "Bicicros", performs a stunt in Santa Cruz, some 900 km (559 miles) east of La Paz, August 28, 2007. REUTERS/Carlos Hugo Vaca (BOLIVIA)
I like the body language of the last guy in line. He appears to want to be skinnier, or to trade places with the person to his left.
Emilio Morenatti/AP
An Israeli couple sit in the middle of an empty street during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish year, Friday, Sept. 21, 2007. Yom Kippur, which means the Day of Atonement, began at sunset Friday and ends at the same time Saturday. Many residents enjoy the streets as no traffic is permitted on the roads.
I'm not usually sentimental, but I think this image is nice.
Stringer Shanghai/Reuters
Paramilitary police officers rehearse for the opening ceremony of the 6th National City Games at a military base in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province, September 21. The sporting meet will begin on October 25 in Wuhan.
This reminds me of the movie Baraka. That movie will make you think, just like this picture.
Stan Honda/AFP - Getty Images
A wax figure of US President Abraham Lincoln (C) sits in the front row of a Delta Shuttle airplane at La Guardia Airport in New York on Sept. 20. The figure was on its way to Washington DC for the opening of a Madame Tussauds wax museum on Oct. 5. The figure travelled as a paying passenger as part of a Tussauds' promotion.
What would you say to Mr. President if he sat next to you on the plane?
Amit Gupta/Reuters
Ram Kumar, 36, a cobbler, shows miniature shoes at a shoe factory in Jammu September 20, 2007. Kumar, who works at a shoe factory in the northern town of Jammu, spends his weekends making miniature shoes, half-an-inch long, in an attempt to get into the Guinness World Book of Records or the Indian equivalent.
Those are some small shoes.
Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
Singer Prince performs before the Matthew Williamson LFW Spring Summer 2008 show at London Fashion Week 2007 on September 19, 2007 in London, England.
What a cool shot! I love the hair on the backup singers. The photographer really captured the moment. Nice job!
Karl Hoecker collection/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum via AP
This 1944 photo provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Nazi officers and female auxiliaries, Helferinnen, posing on a wooden bridge in Solahutte. a little known SS resort some 30 km. south of Auschwitz on the Sola River in Poland. The photo is one of approximately 116 rare photographs included in Karl Hoecker's photo album.
The release of 116 rare photographs from the Auschwitz concentration camp are yet another reminder of the power of photographs to illuminate human history. We have these treasures because of the work of dedicated librarians and photoarchivists in the last century. Even in the age of digital photography, our photos won't live on without cataloging and captioning.
Philippe Desmazes/AFP - Getty Images
Spanish designer Ruiz De La Prada receives applause from the crowd after her Spring/Summer 2008 collection show at Madrid fashion week, 17 September 2007.
I know fashion has always been kinda crazy, but I can't get over it...
China Daily/Reuters
Giant pandas eat at the China Panda Protection and Research Centre in Wolong, southwest China's Sichuan province September 11, 2007. China has halted its time-honoured goodwill gesture of giving highly endangered pandas to foreign countries.
It's pretty hard to find an animal that is more photogenic than the panda. This hilarious shot of them pigging out reminds me of their human cousins enjoying a sporting event in front of the big screen TV. Any doubt about the theory of evolution?
Saul Loeb/AFP - Getty Images
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson (L) picks something out of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's hair (R), as US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman (2nd L), looks on, prior to a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, 11 September 2007.
This photo shows a nice human moment that you rarely see in pictures of politicians. I know I will sleep better tonight knowing that the leaders of the free world are grooming each other so that they all look their finest.
Robert J. Galbraith/AP
Oliver, a two-year-old Persian cat, gets her monthly shower at a pet groomers in Westmount, Quebec, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. The pet industry is seeing an unprecedented wave of entrepreneurship in North America, with over $50 billion dollars being spent yearly on everything from gourmet foods to high-tech cancer surgery.
Is there anything funnier than a wet cat?
David Gray/Reuters
Pedestrians wear raincoats and hold an umbrella as they ride their bikes across a main intersection on a rainy day in Chengdu September 11, 2007.
I'm a believer in the "less is more" approach to composition and color. The simplicity of the lines and the spots of color are just about perfect.
Francois Lenoir/Reuters
Belgian talent scout Sofie Van Eemeren interacts with a five-year-old bay called Jumper during a corporate training session organised by the company Equi-RH at stables in Lesve, southern Belgium, August 27, 2007. The technique uses the hyper-sensitivity of horses to force trainees to think out new strategies to get the animal to do their bidding, a method its proponents say results in greater self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses.
I really dig this picture - it makes me smile. I'm not going to say anything more than that about it, though, to avoid yet more mails to my editors telling them that I should be fired.
Sergio Moraes/Reuters
Mexico's Juan Reyes starts during the men's 50m butterfly S4 heats at the Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro August 16, 2007.
This guy's a total stud. He lost both arms and one leg to gangrene and he's a competitive swimmer. He must have an incredibly strong mind. I find this image inspiring.
Pier Paolo Cito/AP
A gust of wind moves the mantle of Pope Benedict XVI during his Angelus prayer in Vienna's St. Stephen's Square, Sunday, Sept. 9. Several thousand faithful packed a Vienna square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI reaching out to disillusioned Catholics across Europe wrapped up a three-day visit to Austria with a Mass and a stop at a medieval abbey.
This could be symbolic, if you wanted it to be. I was just impressed that the photographer didn't put his camera down when this happened. Only one or two photographers got this shot, from this angle.
Reed Saxon/AP
Orson Welles (left) as Charles Foster Kane in the film "Citizen Kane." (Keystone/Getty Images) Barack Obama (top left) addresses the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) June 19, 2007 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Hillary Rodham Clinton (below right), speaks to the United States Conference of Mayors 75th annual meeting in Los Angeles Friday, June 22, 2007.
I love news pictures that pay homage to other famous images. Movie directors do this all the time. Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941) painted a devastating portrait of a fictional politician (based on William Randolph Hearst) whose ego and image was larger than life. Do you think today's photojournalists are channeling "Citizen Kane" when they do their version of "Citizen Obama" and "Citizen Clinton"?
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