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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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  • 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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  • 4
    Jun
    2010
    1:45pm, EDT

    Carlos Campa / Reuters

    The Tungurahua volcano spews ash and rocks during an eruption in Banos, about 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Quito, June 2, 2010. Tungurahua has been classed as active since 1999 and had a strong eruption in 2008. It is one of eight active volcanoes in the country.

    Daniel LeClair / Reuters

    A woman cries inside her mud-filled home after a mudslide caused by Tropical Storm Agatha hit the el Pedregal neighborhood of Amatitlan May 31, 2010. Stunned victims of Agatha wept by destroyed homes and rescue crews dug bodies out of mud in Guatemala on Monday after torrential rain killed more than 100 people across Central America.

    Tim Wimborne / Reuters

    A surfer wipes out at a break known as "Fairy Bower" on Sydney's northern beaches May 31, 2010. A small number of Sydney surfers made the most of big swells that gale force winds bought to Sydney on Monday as Australia's east coast was drenched by an intense low pressure system.

    The images that didn't make "The Week in Pictures"

    We published The Week in Pictures yesterday. We considered the images above for the slideshow but they didn't make the cut. See this week's edition and let us know what you think of our choices.

    4 comments

    The volcano is boring and has a focal point smack in the middle of it. The girl crying is good, but has a slightly green color cast and needs too much of a caption to understand. The "Wipe Out", isn't a wipe out at all, the surfer is merely pulling out of the wave after riding it.

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