Time's Best Photos of 2005

I subscribe to Times and they always email me stories ahead of the publication to be released. The next issue is Time's Best Photos of 2005.

Take a look and let everyone know which is your favorite single shot and why. You can also vote online on Time's webpage.

http://www.time.com/ti​me/yip/2005/

It was a tough choice for me; it was between #11 (Body Bags) and #18 (Heading Home). Alas, I choose #11. I chose it because it was unique and out of the ordinary. It reminded me of a sci-fi scene. Bodies were kept in dry ice. The coolnes evaporating into the air is so unique. At first, without the caption, I thought it was humidity or human heat evaporating in the cold.

Thanks for that link. I ended up choosing Heading Home. I thought it was the most moving image of the series. Just the faces in the windows of the plane could tell the story. My runner up would have been Venturing Back, #13. For some reason the form of the people, how they were arranged, really stuck in my head. Glad I got to vote, and good thread.

Heading Home is definitely a good one. As noted, I was torn about it. Great photo-journalistic images in there.

Mostly depressing, negative images, but very powerful. And, perhaps negative is needed from time to time as a reminder that life isn't all full-frame and L-glass. Many of the images don't strike me so much as photographically excellent, but they all draw fairly strong emotion.

Thanks for the link for those valuable photos.

Tell me about it. Something happened to my skin when I saw the photo. The last one (the Pop) is excellent too.

On a positive note, the two women (one in Iraq after she voted, the other in Afghanistan about a candidate) were a cause to be cheerful.

Definately liked fire and water the best. However, each one of those photographs was amazing. I don't feel worthy to vote... there is so much to learn with this craft. Thanks for the link EOSX I wouldn't have seen any of those photographs without this post!

why is every image negative? ....

I agree, I don't think every image is negative. It's a story of LIFE. There are some negatives and positives. The women voting in countries where they never ever had the chance before, the women venturing back to the beach months after the tsunami, "all in" shows a picture of a woman who ran for election in a country, again, that never allowed that, the picture of The Pope is not negative...it's powerful.

its all based on negative topics though

That is pretty much what TIME magazine shows. I think it is a good thing too. I mean I believe we need to see these images to be aware of what is going on in the world around us. I'm sure everytime you see images like these you don't want them in your world. Well if nobody saw these images it would be absolutely impossible to get rid of the negativity. Obviously all disasters aren't going to go away (such as hurricanes, and other natural disasters) but it is possible to get rid of war and hatred toward other people.

Well there goes my special magical place rant. Hope everyone enjoyed it.

An image which successfully conveys emotion is a successful photograph isn't it? In my opinion technical excellence more subjective and should take a back seat, especially when it comes to photo journalism. It's such a fast paced world, intense moments of emotion are often over before the data has a chance to be written to a memory card or for the film to advance...you can't manipulate the light, you just frame as best you can and hope that you've captured some feeling.......my hats off to any photo journalist who records the events which shape the world we live in.

For me, Heading Home is extremely well executed...the diversity seen in the faces of the civilians 'should' be what the western world fights to retain...I think it'd be even better if they weren't all caucasian but that's the moment....

The other shot which moved me was Jungle Gym, it portrays our innocence as children, our attitude toward the world before we're conditioned by society. Exploration and observation seem much more important than judgement and assumption..........

Eerie wisps of evaporation in Body Bags is pretty captivating too, especially when you go on to read the caption and discover the location. I'm sure the spirits have departed......but the mist makes you question that

JakeC: Very well said. Could not said it better. Situations happen, they don't wait for the photographer to adjust and manipulate the subjects to how they want it. Life happens fast and you must capture it fast.

Heading home is the most emotional moment in my opinion...because of them...we are free....

here is the complete link....
http://www.time.com …q_war_families/​index.html