Featured Site: The Big Picture

There's a lot to be said regarding internet's growing effect on the future of news. A lot of, frankly, is not so encouraging. Bloggers replacing journalists, the downfall of the daily newspaper, and so on. But, being the optimists we are, we like to take heed of Johnny Mercer's timeless advice: Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive. In this case, one area of news coverage where the digital realm really shines is the art of photojournalism. And the ability to publish sizable galleries of high resolution, large-scale photography on a nearly daily basis is taken advantage of nowhere better than on the Boston Globe's trove of inspired imagery, The Big Picture.
Rather than relying on a select pool of talent to produce the content, The Globe's Alan Taylor gathers all of the most arresting images available from AP, Reuters and Getty Images, and the like, to form an incredible visual narrative around a central theme. Sometimes the collection is topical, focusing on a specific event or occasion, (Typhoon Ketsana, Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, World Animal Day 2009) sometimes the scope is slightly more broad (Autumn, Kisses). Either way, the results are remarkably consistent in their ability to nearly overwhelm with their beauty and poignancy. I could go on, but with pictures like these, who needs the thousand words?

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