Best of 2009

[Munjid Mash]

2009 ലെ തിരെഞ്ഞെടുത്ത ഫോട്ടോകള്‍ 2009 ല്‍  ലോകത്തേറെ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കപ്പെട്ട  ചില സംഭവങ്ങളും,   തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ട ഫോട്ടോകളുമാണ്     താഴെ... ___________ വീഴാതെ, തളരാതെ  മുന്നേറാന്‍ വീണ്ടുമിതാ നമ്മുടെ മുമ്പില്‍ മറ്റൊരു വര്‍ഷം..   2010    ശേഖരണം : സമദ് കൂട്ടിലങ്ങാടി    Slip Sliding Away Andrew Nicholson of New Zealand takes a fall atop Noreo during the cross-country event  in Stamford, England. Fastest Man Alive. . . Jamaica's Usain Bolt, the current world-record holder in both the 100- and 200-meter sprints, celebrates winning gold in the men's 200 meters during at the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Berlin. March 12, 2009 - Youths pose for photographs as they celebrate Holi, the festival of colors, August 26, 2009 A celebrant slides on a pool of tomatoes during La Tomatina, an annucal food fight festival in Bunol, Spain. Retired teacher Geoff Ostling displays his tattooed skin at a portrait session at his home in Petersham in Sydney, Australia. The 65-year old has pledged to donate his skin to the National Gallery in Canberra after his death (Anita Maric / European Pressphoto Agency / October 28, 2009) A boy scampers across a reproduction of the "Mona Lisa" at a shopping center. The 2,500-square- foot display was created in a bid to secure a Guinness world record for the largest reproduction of the work by Leonardo da Vinci. Upside Down Photographer Kate Westaway went underwater to take this image of a humpback whale calf off the coast of Turks and Caicos. "I was really terrified at first, she says. "I was in snorkel gear, and this humpback calf was brushing me with his pectoral fin. He would slap the water with his tail and then go to his mother Medical Attention:A koala injured in an Australian bushfire is attended to at an animal-rescue center in Melbourne. A German veterinarian gives a pedicure to Boy, a 39 year-old Asian elephant, who was sedated before the cosmetic work at Kiev Zoo9. An image of U.S. President Barack Obama depicted as a saint is seen on ten inch tall votive candle displayed at 'Just For Fun' in San Francisco, California. Tourists enjoy the snow-covered Great Wall of China. Chinese officials claim that the February snow-fall was artificially induced. Graffiti art is seen on a wall next to the Regent's Canal, in Camden in London December 22, 2009. The central section of the 'La Democracia' bridge over the Ulua river, built by the French in 1963, collapsed after an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the richter scale hit Honduras in May Rescue workers search for bodies at the site of a collapsed viaduct in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province, China. Six people are reported to have died, An Indian villager looks at a washed away section of a railway bridge on the Balason River in Matigara village on the outskirts of Siliguri. North Bangal , The Los Angeles-class submarine USS Annapolis (SSN 760) rests on the Arctic Ocean after breaking through three feet of ice during Ice Exercise (ICEX). Miraculous Passengers wait on the wings of US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus 320 that was safely ditched in the Hudson River after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines. Fanning the Flu Fears An influenza virus has only eight genes — far fewer than the estimated 25,000 that human beings possess — but its simplicity hasn't stopped it from wreaking havoc on humanity for centuries Ghosts in the Machine A thermal scanner shows the heat signatures of passengers arriving at Seoul's Incheon Airport. Such devices were deployed in the spring to help prevent the spread of swine flu Parched A giraffe felled by drought lies dead on a road in Wajir, Kenya, where virtually no rain has fallen in several years, prompting a severe water crisis. Displaced Women and children fetch water from a pump at a camp outside E Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire's child star Rubina Ali stands in front of her demolished shanty in Mumbai. The ramshackle home of nine-year-old Rubina Ali was one of about 25 properties near train tracks in the Gareeb Nagar slum in central Mumbai that was torn down. Hijacked Armed pirates stand over their French hostages, passengers on the yacht Tanit, off the coast of Somalia on April 11. Gaza Digs Out A Palestinian family rests in the rubble of its home in east Jebaliya after the Israeli incursion into Gaza in January. Tears... A mourner awaits the start of a tribute to Michael Jackson at the Apollo Theater in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on June 30. Israeli police shoot tear gas as they clash with local Arabs A soldier of the French 27th Battallion of chasseur Alpine frisks an Afghan girl before a food distribution during the CIMIC (Civil Military Cooperation) operation in Dawlatkhel, in the Alassay valley Bedded Down U.S. Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound in Helmand province, Afghanistan In Motion Young people rally in support of Iranian reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi a few days before the national election on June 12. Caged In A television sits inside a metal cage at a mental hospital in Baghdad. Us SoldierBody Returns To Native Land Forburial.     June 2009 -- Kuril Islands, Russia A view from the International Space Station of the Sarychev Volcano on the Kuril Islands in an early stage of eruption. Sarychev Peak, on the northwestern end of Matua Island, is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril chain. July 2009 -- Baihata, India (Biju Boro / AFP/Getty Images / July 22, 2009) This combination of images shows the various stages of the total solar eclipse as viewed from the Indian village of Baihata, in the northeastern state of Assam. The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century cast a shadow over much of Asia, plunging hundreds of millions into darkness across India and China. Another World The planet Saturn is captured in a photograph taken by the Cassini orbiter. Space Shuttle Atlantis rolls atop the crawler transporter out to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on March 31, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. One of the crewmembers aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis snapped this photo of heavy cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico Hubble Goes Deep, Finds Farthest Galaxies Yet ( September 16, 2009) Scientists do not directly know how far away the galaxies lie. 'ഹബിള്‍  ടെലെസ്കോപിലൂടെ' എടുത്ത ഇത്തരം  താരാ പഥങ്ങളിലെത്താ൯ അനേകം  കോടി പ്രകാശ വര്‍ഷങ്ങള്‍ എടുക്കണം!   ഒരു സെകന്റില്‍ 186,000 മൈല്‍ സഞ്ചാര വേഗതയുണ്ട്  പ്രകാശ രശ്മികള്‍കെന്നോര്‍കുമ്പോള്‍  നമ്മുടെ ഓരോ വര്‍ഷങ്ങളും,  പ്രവ൪ത്തന മണ്ഡലങ്ങളും, ഭൂമിയുമെല്ലാം എത്ര  നിസ്സാരം!!   എല്ലാവര്‍ക്കും "പുതുവത്സരാശംസകള്‍"

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