Las fotos más espectaculares del 2008

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at Namdaemun, South Korea's 'No. 1 national treasure', in Seoul
(Picture: AP)

Ya que estamos con los recuentos de fin de año (es inevitable), y ya les he dejado unos días atrás lo que para la revista Times Online son las 100 mejores películas del año, ahora le toca el turno a la fotografía, un tema que es de vital importancia en la historia contemporánea, la elaboración de la memoria, y claro, en este blog.

Para Telegraph.co.uk, estas son las 28 fotografías más impactantes del año (y el adjetivo no podría ser más exacto).

Les dejo algunas que en lo personal me dejan realmente a-no-na-da-do.

Parma hams are seen at the Pio Tosini storehouse in Parma, Italy (Picture: AP)

A figure from Antony Gormley's 'Another Place' welcomes one of the Tall Ships to Merseyside
as it sails past the Burbo Bank windfarm on its approach to the Port of Liverpool (Picture: GETTY)

A man collects dead fish in Guanqiao Lake in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province
(Picture: EPA)

Members of the Tao tribe hoist a new fishing boat into the air during a traditional launching ceremony
on Orchid Island, Taiwan (Picture: AP)

CJ Hobgood of the US becomes airborne during the third round of the Billabong Pro surfing tournament
on the legendary reef break in Teahupoo, Tahiti (Picture: REUTERS)

Fireworks light up the night sky during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,
held at the National Stadium (Picture: AFP/GETTY)

The Wulihe Stadium is seen brought down during a controlled blasting
in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province (Picture: EPA)


Former professional Swiss military pilot Yves Rossy, also known as Fusionman,
flies in the sky like a rocketeer in the southern Swiss Alps near Bex (Picture: REUTERS)


A resident points at a cloud of smoke and ashes
produced by the Chaiten volcano in southern Chile (Picture: AP)

Actualización:

Hoy The Big Picture acaba de colgar sus 40 fotos seleccionadas, bajo el título "El año 2008 en fotografías (parte 1 de 3)". Hay de todo (incluso muchas repetidas con la selección de Telegraph, no solo impactantes, sino realmente hermosas y por supuesto espectaculares. Les dejo el link abajo pero no sin dejarles 4 fotos que llaman la atención sobre todo porque son acciones hechas entre hombres o entre grupos. En todo caso entre seres humanos, que somos los que en el fondo hacemos la historia. Y no he puesto las fotos más violentas. Esperaremos la parte 2 y 3 con ansias.

A U.S. Marine, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

A Kenyan boy screams as he sees kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi 17 January 2008. Hundreds of police who had earlier clashed with supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga at the entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and did a house to house search for protestors. (WALTER ASTRADA/AFP/Getty Images)

Wounded Palestinians lay near Reuters news agency reporter Fadel Shaana's car after it was hit by an Israeli missile on April 16, 2008 in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian cameraman working for the Reuters news service and two other civilians, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)


A policeman carries a child away during a gun battle in Tijuana, in Mexico's state of Baja California, January 17, 2008. A shootout on Thursday, after police agents moved in on a drug cartel group, left four people injured and forced the emergency evacuation of a school in Tijuana, according to the local media. (REUTERS/Jorge Duenes)

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The Telegraph.co.uk Spectacular images of 2008

The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) (The Big Picture)

The year 2008 in photographs (part 2 of 3) (The Big Picture)

The year 2008 in photographs (part 3 of 3) (The Big Picture)