(Big) Pictures of the Year

When I was little I had a subscription to National Geographic magazine. The day it arrived in the mail I would open it and first look through all of the pictures before reading the actual articles. So for the little kid inside of me The Big Picture from the Boston Globe is fantastic. They just posted their pictures of the year in 3 parts. I highly suggest you take a look (as a warning many of the pictures deal with dark subject matter):

Part 1:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html

Part 2:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html

Part 3:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/2009_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html


As an added bonus, here are MSNBC pictures of the decade:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34261690/ns/news-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1