The 11 Most Powerful Images of 2011

A countdown from 11 to 1 of the best photographs of the year.

11. Hurricane Irene
10. US gay service members march openly in a pride parade.
9. A rebel holds Gadhafi's golden gun.
8. A malnourished african baby in his mother's arms.
7. A couple lies in the streets of Vancouver as a riot goes on around them.
6. Before and after a massive tornado in Joplin, MO.
5. An elderly lesbian couple is finally married in New York.
4. Obama hunts Osama.
3. Christians protect praying Muslims in Tahrir Square.
2. UC Davis protesters are pepper sprayed unnecessarily by campus police.
1. The powerful Japanese tsunami left a large boat on top of a two-story house.

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[sailortkhan]

Christians protect praying Muslims in Tahrir Square. That's the most powerful image in my opinion.

[TheCliffy007]

I really like the Christians protecting Muslims praying pic, very powerful.

[ZeerosFate]

I really like #4. I like how the mainstream press called it once: "If this picture isn't undeniable proof that Osama Bin Laden is dead, nothing is."

[john1136]

Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, and the ships that run in the sea with that which profits men, and the water that Allah sends down from the cloud, then gives life with it to the earth after its death and spreads in it all (kinds of) animals, and the changing of the winds and the clouds made subservient between the heaven and the earth, there are signs for a people who understand.

Quran[2:164]

[secretus3]

people are worms, but others in that they do not see anything wrong with that more and more of us this is normal after such bacteria as people quickly destroy the world, already half of the forests went to hell on paper, oh and something everyone needs to wipe ass. Wisdom is born of pain, sacrifice, time, understanding, and other things ........ learn to not look, among tch all the fools are wise enough ........

[planetmax83]

Hurricane from space, I love weather and science.

[smartpixelsdotnet]

Photo of my family

[purseturse]

Don't You Think Gabby Giffords shouldve been on here?

[KpopManiacSFL]

@Viktir666- You don't have to use derogatory terms to be racist or prejudice, you suggesting automatically that the internet smilie, which almost every internet user identifies, as an Asian just proves that you assume all Asians have small lines of eyes thus being ignorant of the diversity Asia has. You stereotypically think all Asians look like that. That is racism. That expression was created by English speaking ppl&used by companies like MSN.

[Viktir666]

@KpopManiacSFL I only speak and write in English, I don't conform to a little kid's idea of what is cool or trendy on the internet. Do you respect English? By the way, I'm not racist, I said "Asian", not "gook" or "chink". Reading comprehension is important, learn it.

[KpopManiacSFL]

@Viktir666 ? You don't know what "xD" is? Lol, are you 90 or something? Ahh...and racist too you must be old xD

[Viktir666]

@KpopManiacSFL What the fuck is "xD'? Is that an Asian squinting while laughing?