Links are at the end, including ones to performances from the bands I played when writing this.
I did a portrait.
Top Photos of 2022
My Modern Met, a site about which I know nothing, has their 50 best photos of the year,1 including several from NASA, including one I’d not seen before from the Hubble telescope.
Cosmic butterfly. I think most of the photos are just screen grabs so I can’t recommend spending much time there, but they do have about a dozen good ones.
The Guardian has this year’s World Press Photo winners, each presented with a summary of their circumstances, which I cannot recommend heartily enough. Great stuff.2
Time Magazine has a top 1003 and a top 10 respectively.4
AP has some 150 of their best photos from 2022. They’ve always had a kick-ass photo desk.5
Nikon’s Small World Photomicrogaphy contest winners are pretty wild.6
National Geographic’s top 49 photos, because they have to be different.7 This is paywalled, I think, but everybody should have a National Geographic subscription even with the change in management. (Somebody gave me one.)
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, “One Hour Mama;”8 The Barberettes, “Season;”9 Davina and the Vagabonds, “Sugar Drops;”10 Eight to the Bar, playing us out with “The Light Fantastic.”11
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