World Press Photo of the year

Great photographs.. sad world

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I cant link directly to it but go to

"winners 2004"/"general news" and look at the first place photo by Jerry Lampen

Truly hauntingly beautyful.

Some really good photos there. This -> http://www.worldpressp​hoto.nl …y=183&prize=206​&wid=34015 <- wasn't too good, but for some reason it made me laugh.

Jerry Lampen is a photographer from Rotterdam who was also one of the winners. He won the first prize in the category General News.

His photo of a woman in Iraq mourning about her husband is here: http://www.worldpressp​hoto.nl …y=179&prize=208​&wid=33931

Today I was in a café (café Floor in Rotterdam) - there was a radio show in the café and he was interviewed there. Here he is (the guy on the right), telling a very impressive story of what he had seen in Iraq, with his winning photo in the background:

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

Hmmmm... How were guys able to lift copyrighted photos off of that
world photo site? Not complaining, mind you; just curious.

Suddenly I am very pleased to be shooting flowers and butterflies. Kind of makes OUR dangerous photos look pretty tame.

gsm x2

If you mean "How'd you get around that stupid Javascript trick that some websites have", just use a different browser, that doesn't go ape when you do a right-click on an image.

Really annoying, that. What if I just wanted to see the properties of the image, or open it in a different window? What if I wanted to use it as my desktop background image (fair use, in spite of what the more rabid 'protectors of copyright' would have you beleive). These are all things that I do from a right-click context menu, and when web sites tinker like that with my browser, I don't appreciate it.

I don't appreciate being accused of illegal activities when I'm attempting to exercise my fair use rights.

On the other hand, folks should know better than to post copyrighted images (without permission) on other web sites or forums. Links only, please.