The Big Picture: year 2008 in review

Normally I skip things like "top ten XYZ for 2008". But when I heard about the year 2008 in photographs at The Big Picture from Boston.com, I had to take a look. Sure enough, they are great photos. Truly great.

Things I like about it are:

• The photo quality is excellent. It's photojournalism at its best.
  
• There is more of a world focus than just an American focus.
  
• There is a wide range of photographs, from light moments to horrific ones, with plenty showing how awesome the world can be (see the first one of the lightning storm in a volcano).
• There are good notes explaining the context of each photo.

The only thing that you might want to skip over is the comments: it's alot of either cheering or petty criticism (e.g., these photos seems to have a liberal bias).