PAPAL PHOTOS OF THE YEAR
ACCORDING TO REUTERS
How fast the year has gone by! Already, Reuters has posted its papal Photos of the Year for 2008, and although I would personally choose every photo of Benedict XVI as photo of the year, I find Reuters's choices rather arbitrary and random by almost any criterion, and certainly unrepresentative of the Pope's year (four from the US visit, 1 from WYD-SYD, 3 from the General Audiences, and the photo with Stephen Hawking).
On the plane approaching Washington, DC, 4/15/08:
Parade on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, 4/20/08:
Ground Zero, Manhattan, 4/21/08:
Mass at Yankee Stadium, 4/21/08:
Boat entry to Sydney, 7/15/08:
With Stephen Hawking, 9/30/08:
General Audience, 6/18/08:
General Audience, 11/05/08:
General Audience, 11/18/08:
While the occasions may be significant, there is nothing particularly arresting about the selected photos as photographs that distinguishes them in any way from the thousands of photographs taken of the Pope in 2008, let alone of the particular occasions on which they were taken!