11.) On Friday 18 November, Campus police at the University of California at Davis nonchalantly used pepper spray against students who sat peacefully on the school's quad to protest tuition increases.
10.) Rumors and uncertainty surrounding the fate of Muammar Gaddafi began to circulate on the morning of October 20, 2011. This cell phone photograph taken by AFP/Getty's Philippe Desmazes was the first image of Gaddafi, taken after his capture, to come to the attention of Time's photo editors that morning.
09.) The iconic photo to come from the London riots was taken by Amy Weston, a photographer with the London-based WENN photo agency. She had heard that there were fires in the Church Street area of Croydon on August 8 and headed that way.
08.) On July 19 and 20, hundreds of websites, featured an extraordinary series of photos of a frightened leopard that had strayed into the small Indian village of Prakash Nagar, mauling at least five people. After failing several times to tranquilize the animal, forest rangers captured it and took it to a veterinary center, where it died from injuries sustained during its rampage.
07.) When the Vancouver Canucks lost game 7 of the Stanely Cup finals to the Boston Bruins on their home ice on June 15, local fans took out their frustration in the streets, by rioting, looting and setting fire to cars. During the rampage, Getty photographer Rich Lam captured this image of one couple laying on the ground, seemingly engaged in a romantic moment.
06.) Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart published this photograph of Congressman Anthony Weiner on his website, Bigjournalism.com, from where it spread across the internet.
05.) "The photo [of space shuttle Endeavour] was an unexpected hit that I took from almost 35,000 ft. over Florida, flying from New York City to Palm Beach with—of all things my—iPhone 3GS, and tweeted it out upon landing," says Stefanie Gordon. "I didn't realize the impact of the photo or the rounds it was making in social media until a few hours later when I looked at my Twitter mentions and all the personal messages I was receiving on Facebook.
04.) Uploaded to the White House's official Flickr feed on May 2, the day after the announcement of Osama bin Laden's death, this photo accrued over 1.5 million views in its first 38 hours on line, according to the website, TechCrunch.
03.) The world celebrated the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton with parades and parties, but for one key participant, the festivities were a little too much. Three-year-old Grace Van Cutsem, one of the bridesmaids, could not handle the roar of the crowd beneath the balcony at Buckingham Palace and covered her ears to block out the noise. The photo of her reaction became an instant internet sensation.
02.) The intimate close up, literally touching, cell phone image of two holding hands brought a national issue down to the simplest of forms. The hands belong to astronaut Mark Kelly and his wife Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The photograph taken on Jan 9, 2010 was the first to be released by the Giffords family after she was shot in the head at point-blank range by gunman Jared Loughner at a public meeting outside a supermarket in Tucson. Prior to the shooting Giffords had been depicted on Republican Sarah Palin's website between the crosshairs of a gun sight.
01.) Seconds after taking this picture of his smiling family outside his Manila home, in the early hours of New Years day, councilman Reynaldo Dagsa was shot dead. The police did not have to look far for evidence of the killer's identity. The assassin and his accomplice had inadvertently been photographed in the background of the last image taken by the politician—his gun directly aimed at his victim—from behind a parked car, the barrel highlighted by the camera's flash. Amid the traditional exploding firecrackers Dagsa's relatives had not heard the gunshot that killed him-- they simply saw him collapse after he was hit. He was rushed to hospital but pronounced dead on arrival. Later when they looked at the photo he had taken of them, his family realized that the 35-year-old Dagsa had photographed his own murder in the act. The photograph, taken just after midnight on 1 January, was released by Dagsa's family on 4 January. It was published on the front page of The Philippine Daily Inquirer and then quickly went viral. The picture also led to the arrest of two suspects, gunman Michael Gonzales and accomplice Rommel Olivia.
here's the link: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/15/time-picks-the-best-viral-photos-of-2011/#1
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