A Global Walk thru Time Magazine’s 2009 Year in Pictures & World Wide Reflection of our Year.

A global trek with Time through 2009, from the Arctic, across America, around the world then back to the islands of the Atlantic and the images of what lies between. An abstract regional view of what may be the trend as you traverse the globe at least from the aspect of what the who are concerned about or maybe should be. A wide a wondrous world we have, with issue apparently all need to look to in their own homes.

sourced: TIME.com selects the year’s most compelling photos The Year in Pictures 2009

Ice Station: Arctic Circle

Tiffini M. Jones / U.S. Navy / ZUMA: The submarine U.S.S. Annapolis breaks through the ice during a training session in the Arctic.

Detroit Interior: Highland Park Michigan United States

Andrew Moore: A carpet covered with moss lines the floor of an office at a Ford plant in Highland Park, Mich. Photographer Andrew Moore explains, “This room is in a small office building on the grounds of the vast Highland Park Ford plant, which was built in 1910. In 1927 (Henry) Ford moved his auto production to his Dearborn plant, but Highland Park continued to be used as a storage facility. I took this picture in May as part of a project I began about two years ago. I decided to make a record of the decay of Detroit and the ways in which the city in some places is being “re-ruralized” —the works of man are being recycled by the forces of nature…The office you see here is a corner suite on the top floor. My assumption is that it had a wool carpet and that in the years after the last time anybody used that office— probably in the 1940s — the wool decayed and became a fecund ground for this moss. So the picture is really about the vitality of undisturbed nature.”

Up in Smoke: Boulder Colorado United States

Mark Leffingwell / Daily Camera / AP: Thousands of people on the quad at the University of Colorado in Boulder exhale marijuana at 4:20 p.m. on April 20, an annual ritual marking the drug’s unofficial national holiday.

Tent City: Seattle Washington United States

Aaron Huey / Atlas Press: Homeless people sleep in an encampment on Capitol Hill in Seattle. “I had been wanting to take pictures of homelessness,” says photographer Aaron Huey. “I see alot of it in Seattle and I’m always torn. I went to this tent city for the homeless, which is near St. Mark’s Cathedral, on a quick assignment — I had only two days. But on the first day I shot very few photos. I used the time to get to know people there so they would be comfortable with me coming in with a camera. The second evening is when I made most of my pictures, including this one. I wanted a shot with the Seattle skyline in the background to give context to this homeless encampment juxtaposed against the larger, more affluent city. But I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to see that from the tent city. Then I found a janitor who allowed me to go up to the top of the cathedral. I made it up to the roof, and by crawling through some windows, I was able to get that shot.”

Incoming: Mexico City Mexico

Gregory Bull / AP: Mexican wrestler Blue Demon speaks on a phone as he arrives at Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s third annual state-of-the-nation address in Mexico City.

Not of this World: Sydney Australia

Rex Rycroft / AP: A dust storm blankets the Sydney Opera House in Australia in late September.

Medical Attention: Melbourne Australia

Lui Siu Wai / Xinhua / Gamma / ZUMA: A koala injured in an Australian bushfire is attended to at an animal-rescue center in Melbourne.

Ghosts in the Machine: Seoul South Korea

Jung Yeon-je / Reuters: 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.

Summer Break: Kyzyl Russia

Alexey Druzhinyn / AFP / Getty: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin enjoys a horseback ride during a vacation in Kyzyl, Russia.

Oasis: Gobi Desert Gansu Province China.

Ariana Lindquist / New York Times / Redux: Crescent Moon Lake is a naturally occurring spring in the middle of the Gobi desert, along the Silk Road in Gansu province, China. Photographer Ariana Lindquist notes, “The picturesque pagoda you see in the photograph is a cheap stand-in for a Buddhist shrine that was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. Crescent Moon Lake has become a typical tourist site, with camel and dune-buggy rides. Still, it’s amazing to fly into this environment and imagine that 1,000 years ago, when it was part of the Silk Road, caravans would come across this immense desert to the little oasis town of Dunhuang. It’s becoming famous now for clean energy. Just outside town, they’re going to build one of China’s largest solar-power stations.”

Hijacked: Coast of Somalia

Reuters: Armed pirates stand over their French hostages, passengers on the yacht Tanit, off the coast of Somalia on April 11.

Bedded Down: Helmand Province Afghanistan

David Guttenfelder / AP: U.S. Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Photographer David Guttenfelder explains, “We’d stopped in this farmer’s field for the night. It took me an hour to dig my own firing position in the dark, and it feels like you’re sleeping in a shallow grave. But you do feel safer— and sleep better — protected by those few inches of dirt. I got up at dawn and was able to get the guys enjoying the first full night’s sleep they’d had after marching for six days in temperatures up to 135 degrees, carrying 120-lb. packs.”

Bloodied: Tehran Iran

Olivier Laban-Mattei / AFP / Getty: A Mousavi supporter wipes blood from his face during a riot in Tehran the day after the presidential election. Widespread suspicion that the vote had been rigged led to several weeks of protests in Iran.

Caged In: Baghdad Iraq

Yuri Kozyrev / Noor: A television sits inside a metal cage at a mental hospital in Baghdad. The hospital houses 1,300 patients, 400 of whom are women.

Gaza Digs Out: Gaza Strip Palestine Israel

Kevin Frayer / AP: A Palestinian family rests in the rubble of its home in east Jebaliya after the Israeli incursion into Gaza in January.

Parched: Wajir Kenya

Stephano de Luigi / VII Network: 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.

Razed: Muhajariya South Darfur Sudan

Lynsey Addario / VII Network: In the past few years, control of the village of Muhajariya in South Darfur, Sudan, has changed hands several times as a result of fighting between government and rebel forces in the region. “When you get close to a village like this,” says photographer Lynsey Addario, “you see women and men looking for the plot of land they were driven off, rifling through the remains of a burned-out hut, starting to rebuild. Roughly two dozen people were killed in the fighting here. I have been covering Darfur every year since 2004 and have flown over several of these scenes. The conflict has evolved into internal conflict too, with ethnic Africans fighting Africans, Arabs fighting Arabs, and the government and janjaweed stepping in to support whichever side works best for them.”

Armed and Dangerous: Bissau Guinea-Bissau West Africa

Marco Vernaschi / Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting: Drug dealers settle a score in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. In the past few years, the small West African nation has become a key transit point for South American drug cartels.

OMG: Strasbourg France

Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME: First Ladies Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy chat during the Obamas’ visit to Strasbourg, France.

Upside Down: Turks and Caicos Islands

Kate Westaway: 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, who was sleeping nearby, then return to us. I came eye to eye with him a few times. Maybe he was fascinated by his reflection in my fish-eye lens.” The photograph is printed upside down. Westaway says she wanted to show the world from the whale’s perspective.

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