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  • 23
    Dec
    2010
    6:00am, EST

    Evan Vucci / AP

    A daughter of Lt. Col. Robert Baldwin, of Eliza, Ill., looks on as a flag is presented during a burial service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Lt. Col. Baldwin was killed in Afghanistan.

    The Year in Pictures: Outtakes

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    I've seen a lot of pictures of funerals at Arlington cemetery, but this one is simple and heartbreaking. You don't need to see more than the soldiers hands with the folded flag to know exactly where they are and what is happening. It didn't make the final cut, but you can see what did here.

    4 comments

    All you have to do is look into this poor child's eyes and realize that no comment is needed. Words could not properly put into perspective the pain that you see.

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  • 21
    Dec
    2010
    11:35am, EST

    Matt Slocum / AP

    A law enforcement officer chases down a fan that ran onto the field before the eighth inning of a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the St. Louis Cardinals, Monday, May 3, 2010, in Philadelphia. St. Louis won 6-3.

    The Year in Pictures - Sports: Outtakes

    By Elena Grothe

    Shocking fan alert! I remember the surprise of seeing this image for the first time (ESPN story here). This photo was considered for our Year in Sports Pictures slideshow but excluded from the final edit.

    See which photos made the cut here: The Year in Pictures - Sports.

    1 comment

    Taze me Dude!

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  • 17
    Dec
    2010
    1:30pm, EST

    The Week in Pictures: Outtakes

    By Carissa Ray

    We considered these images for The Week in Pictures: Dec. 9 - 16, but they didn't make the cut.

    Timothy A. Clary / AFP - Getty Images

    Dancers from the all-male dance troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo line up before they perform a scene from "Raymonda's Wedding" during the dress rehearsal before the opening night at the Joyce Theater in New York on Dec. 14.

    Don Seabrook / The Wenatchee World via AP

    Friends from Lake Tapps, Wash., try to stay on their sled as it turns sideways down the run at Squilchuck State Park near Wenatchee, Wash., on Dec. 11. From the bottom are Hailei Schatz, Alex and Jacquline Wetteland, Hannah Schatz, and Jessie Cooke. They are part of a group of four families that are spending their second year taking a winter vacation in the area, finishing off with a trip to the Leavenworth Lighting Festival Saturday night.

    Giorgio Cosulich / Getty Images

    Police prepare to charge protestors, during a protest called by university students against the vote of confidence in Silvio Berlusconi's government on Dec. 14, in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi scraped through a crucial confidence vote in the lower house of parliament by 314 votes in favour and 311 against.

    Devin Wagner / Argus Leader via AP

    Telkamp Housemoving moves Allen and Tamara Weis' house down Minnesota Avenue in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Dec. 14. The house is being moved to Chancellor, S.D.

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    A group of Afghan refugee girsl walk in an alley of a slum area to join other children playing, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Dec. 12.

    Jim R. Bounds / AP

    Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his children, Emma Claire, left, Jack and Cate, far right, leave the funeral service for Elizabeth Edwards at Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, N.C., on Dec. 11. Edwards died Tuesday of cancer at the age of 61.

     In a couple of cases, we liked the image more for their "strangeness" than the quality of the photo, for others, they didn't stand up to the other images we chose this week.

    We also considered some other images previously seen in PhotoBlog here and here 

    Be sure to view the slideshow and VOTE for you favorite.

    What do you think of this week's slideshow?

    2 comments

    Reminds me of a Seinfeld Episode.

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  • 6
    Dec
    2010
    6:48pm, EST

    Drn / Getty Images

    A Buddhist monk walks past a Hindu temple on Dec. 6, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar last month saw the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after seven years of house arrest.

    Monk walking among pigeons in Myanmar. Could this photo be better?

    By Carissa Ray

    To me, this photo was almost one I would consider for The Week in Pictures (TWIP, in msnbc.com speak). The reason I'm not sold is that the element with the most potential (in my opinion) - the shadows of the birds on a wire - isn't played up to its best potential in the composition. Maybe if the photographer took a couple of steps back to eliminate some of the wide angle feeling the photo gives, and let the wires move you through the frame a little more seamlessly? Or is this moment, with the peak of blue at the top balancing the red color of the photo, and the position of the walking monk the best that this moment had to give?

    Photo enthusiasts, what do you think? Could this frame have been better, or am I asking too much?

    Check back Thursday evening to see if the photo makes this week's edition of TWIP - which is voted on democratically by a panel of 3 editors each week, so I may be overruled. For more on the TWIP editing process, click here.

    1 comment

    I was going to publish this photo yesterday and ran out of time... it caught my eye, but my take on it was different. I thought this image was slightly contrived. Yes, it's beautifully composed and it's got a lot of things working for it, but here's my question: Why is the monk holding that umbrell …

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  • 15
    Oct
    2010
    2:41pm, EDT

    Athit Perawongmetha / Getty Images

    Devotees of the Chinese shrine of Jui Tui carry a Chinese god on a palanquin as firecreckers explode during a procession of the Vegetarian Festival on Oct, 14 in Phuket, Thailand.

    Petr Josek / Reuters

    A fish hangs from a net during the traditional fish haul of the Velky Tisy pond at the village of Lomnice nad Luznici near the south Bohemian town of Trebon, during the traditional carp haul, Oct. 13.

    Thomas Mukoya / Reuters

    An endangered black male rhinoceros with its horn partially cut-off stands in a cage after a radio transmitter was implanted in its horn before translocation at the Lake Nakuru National park in Kenya's Rift Valley, 99 miles west of the capital Nairobi, on Oct. 12. After implanting radio transmitters into the horns to track the animals and notching their ears, KWS is translocating 10 black rhinos to the Tsavo National Park, southeast of Nairobi, to re-establish the population.

    Javier Galeano / AP

    A man carries a young girl on a bicycle along an empty highway in Los Palacios, Cuba, on Oct. 11.

    Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

    A young boy looks at giant pumpkins in the back of a pickup truck before the start of the 37th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off on Oct. 11 in Half Moon Bay, California. Ron Root of Citrus Heights, California won the competition with a 1,535 pound pumpkim and took home $9,210 in prize money equal to $6 a pound.

    Darren Staples / Reuters

    A police dog bites the clothing of a demonstrator from the far-right English Defence League (EDL) during a march in Leicester, central England, on Oct. 9.

    The Week in Pictures: Outtakes

    We considered these images for The Week in Pictures: Oct. 7 - 14, but they didn't make the cut.

    What do you think of how this week's slideshow turned out without these shots?

    Be sure to view the slideshow and VOTE for you favorite.

    Share your thoughts about this photographic look at the week in the comments below.

    2 comments

    These are amazing photos. I love the old man and the little girl on the bike but all of the pictures are mighty fine.

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  • 8
    Oct
    2010
    6:30pm, EDT

    Tim Wimborne / Reuters

    Jenna Randall of England begins her synchronised swimming solo technical routine during the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi on Oct. 6.

    Raymundo Ruiz / AP

    Two police officers embrace next to a woman who reacts after learning that her husband, a police investigator, has been killed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Oct. 4.

    Tamas Kovacs / EPA

    Sunflowers stand in poisonous red mud in a field in Somlovasarhely, 169 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary, on Oct. 6, after a dike of a reservoir containing red mud of an alumina factory in nearby Ajka broke two days before, and over one million cubic meters of the poisonous chemical sludge inundated three villages, killing four persons and injuring over hundred. Hundreds of families have been evacuated.

    Sunil Verma / Reuters

    Britain's Prince Charles dances with villagers at Tolasar village near Jodhpur in India's state of Rajasthan on Oct. 5.

    The Week in Pictures: Outtakes

    We considered these images for this week's The Week in Pictures, but they didn't make the cut.

    What do you think of how this week's slideshow turned out without these shots?

    And feel free to weigh in on the Prince's dance moves, too.

    6 comments

    I thought I had seen the sunflower picture here earlier in the week... I know I saw it somewhere. A very strong image!  

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  • 16
    Sep
    2010
    4:14pm, EDT

    Robert F. Bukaty / AP

    Roy Morejon wipes dew off the windshield of his lobster boat at sunrise Sept. 16, in South Freeport, Maine.

    Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters

    An ultra-orthodox Jewish man prays as other dance on the banks of a lake in the town of Uman, some 200 km (124 miles) south of Kiev, Sept. 9. Thousands of Jewish pilgrims arrive every year on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman.

    PETER DASILVA / EPA

    Firefighters protect the exposure of a house after a massive explosion and fire in San Bruno, close to San Francisco, late Sept. 9. Dozens of houses were wiped out and at least four people were killed.

    AARON FAVILA / AP

    Rescued Pakistanis takes cover from the downdraft of a Pakistan Navy helicopter during evacuation operations at flood affected Fareedabad, Dadu district, southern Pakistan on Sept. 15.

    FABIO MUZZI / AFP - Getty Images

    A photo taken on Sept. 13, in the Tuscany countryside shows two rainbows after a thunderstorm.

    The Week in Pictures: Outtakes

    Check out the pictures that didn't make the cut this week. To see the latest edition of the slideshow, click here.

    1 comment

    I voted for The San Bruno Barbeque because I've never seen tankers drop retardant on a housing tract. If I were to put one of the above in TWIP, it would be The Pakistani Pilgrims, because-I've said this before, and believe me the photos are consistent-they look Biblical.

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  • 9
    Sep
    2010
    7:05pm, EDT

    Rick Bowmer / AP

    Flower pickers carry dahlia's in a field during the Dahlia Festival Sept. 2, in Canby, Ore. Swan Island Dahlias hosts the Dahlia Festival the last weekend in August and Labor Day weekend.

    Richard Clement / Reuters

    Local resident Russell Lowe kayaks along a beach road during Hurricane Earl in Nags Head, North Carolina Sept. 3.

    Chris Helgren / Reuters

    Commuters are reflected in the window of a bus as they queue during a strike by underground transit workers, outside Liverpool Street rail station in London Sept. 7. Millions of commuters across the British capital struggled to get to work on Tuesday as a 24-hour strike by workers on London's underground rail system crippled much of the network.

    Akhtar Soomro / Reuters

    A flood victim waits for food handouts with others while taking refuge in a relief camp for flood victims in Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province on Sept. 8.

    Christof Stache / AFP - Getty Images

    A bee sits on a sunflower blossoming on a field near the village of Markt Essenbach near Landshut, southern Germany, during unsettled weather with temperatures by 20 degrees on Sept. 8.

    The Week in Pictures: Outtakes

    We had many excellent images to choose from for this week's edition. The images above are good but didn't quite make the cut. Do you think we made the right choices?

    16 comments

    The flood victim photo is a true classic in time.The photo takes in so much suffering.People waiting for food!Holding pots and pans.Who with any sense of caring for others could not feel the pain in the photo.Everyone eats and we all use pots and pans.And to have the women in the middle.It could be  …

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  • 3
    Sep
    2010
    7:05pm, EDT

    Robin Utrecht / AFP - Getty Images

    People pose as statues in the centre of Arnhem on Aug. 29 during the Living Statues World Cup.

    The Week in Pictures: Outtakes

    This image was eliminated from this week's The Week in Pictures during the final round of editing.

    While we felt it was an interesting image in composition, color, contrast (the whites of the the subject's eyes are SO white against the body paint), we felt it went head-to-head with the image titled "Little Krishna," since we liked it for all the same reasons.

    In the end, "Little Krishna" won out, b/c while both were performance events, we felt this one was the more staged of the two (since the subjects were actively competing as statues).

    Check out the "Little Krishna" image as well as Polish snowballs, Hurricane Earl from space, dogsled water-skiing, and more.

    Click to see the full slideshow for the week of Aug. 26 - Sept. 2 and cast your vote.

    Tell us below, which image do you like best this week, and why? Which image of painted faces do you like better, or would you have skipped them both?

    2 comments

    I agree with Carissa. Getting this shot, while it's very well done, is a might easier that many of the other photos. And Little Krishna, you get the feeling the phrog was taking photos of everything around him/her at the event and caught the little girl with that look on her face. Moment in time.  …

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  • 13
    Aug
    2010
    1:31pm, EDT

    Paul White / AP

    A bald eagle cools off at the Zoo in Madrid Tuesday Aug. 10, 2010.

    The Week in Pictures: Outtakes

    This image was eliminated from this week's The Week in Pictures (known to the media eds here as TWIP) during the final round of editing.

    While the bright, saturated colors, and the really interesting texture of the water hitting the eagle's feathers were engaging, the fact that this photo was from a zoo - a controlled environment - did deplete the editors' initial reaction to the image, and in the end, it didn't make the cut for this engaging week that included: desperate survivors of Pakistan's massive flooding, an eye-tricking image of underwater swimming, a sweet moment of summer love, and more.

    Click to see the full slideshow for the week of Aug. 5 - 12 and cast your vote.

    Tell us below, which image do you like best this week, and why? Should the bald eagle have made the slideshow?

    17 comments

    I would have liked to have seen the eagle, and he/she would probably have won, as the only positive heartwarming image there, but I still would have voted for fight against fire - the starkness, dark on fire red, the single horizontal line of the shovel a pathetic tool against the threat that seeks …

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  • 6
    Aug
    2010
    1:57pm, EDT

    Mike Cassese / Reuters

    Toronto Blue Jays center fielder Vernon Wells makes a catch on a fly ball by Cleveland Indians batter Asdrubal Cabrera during the ninth inning of their MLB American League baseball game in Toronto on July 31.

    The Week in Pictures: Outtakes

    This fun, eye-tricking image was eliminated from this week's The Week in Pictures (known to the media eds here as TWIP) during the final round of editing.

    While the the editors were really enticed by the fun element this shot would have brought to the slideshow during a rather heavy news week, we felt that photographically, the image didn't have as strong a moment, reaction, or as much depth to the composition as the images that we did include: a dive-through dining experience, massive flooding devastation in Pakistan, and the scarred remains of a garden in Russia among others.

    Click to see the full slideshow for the week of July 29 - Aug. 5 and cast your vote. Tell us below, which image do you like best this week, and why?

    To see more about how we edit The Week in Pictures each Thursday, check out this Behind the Scenes video.

    2 comments

    Ah, so it's TWIP not WIP, eh? I voted for the folks running for the chopper in Pakistan, because of good framing, level chopper, nice wide shot to get the action, and the action is nothing less than a frantic dash to get the heck out before starvation, disease and more water come along. You've got …

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