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The Atlantic’s IN FOCUS picture blog

January 19, 2011 @ 1:07 am

Photo: NASA Alan Taylor who previously started and ran The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture, has moved on from The Globe and is starting up a similar project over at The Atlantic. His new site called In Focus is going … Continue reading →

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Photos of animals migrating

November 6, 2010 @ 8:06 pm

Photo: National Geographic/Hiroya Minakuchi/Minden Pictures Animals, animals, animals! The Big Picture has a bunch of nature photos of various animals and species on their annual migrations. The underwater ones are my favorites! :)

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The Big Caption: a compliment to The Big Picture

May 18, 2010 @ 8:56 pm

A new website entitled The Big Caption takes a photo or two each day from The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture blog and captions it with witty, obnoxious, or down-right wrong words. It’s oddly amusing to sift through. Check it … Continue reading →

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Photos from the Haiti earthquake

January 13, 2010 @ 12:19 pm

Photo: DANIEL MOREL/AFP/Getty Images As expected, The Big Picture is one of the first websites to post a collection of photos from the disaster area in Haiti after yesterday’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake. The image above is particularly haunting because of … Continue reading →

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Images that defined a decade

December 19, 2009 @ 6:17 pm

Photo: SETH MCALLISTER/AFP/Getty Images The Big Picture is running a series of photos that were newsworthy during this decade and a few of them of course are related to 9/11. I can’t think of a single event in the past … Continue reading →

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Female North Korean soldier

April 24, 2009 @ 5:31 pm

Photo: AP Photo/Andy Wong Of all of the photos in this post from The Big Picture, this one above stands out as the most shocking to me. I just never thought that a country as closed as North Korea would … Continue reading →

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