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Photographs - Inspiring, Silly or Cool

So, I'm much in love with The Atlantic's In Focus column and the photographs on it, and wanted a place to share a few (with link back to source and all) but figured this could be a thread for the photography lovers (and takers) to post things they come across. Big pics incoming...

So anyway:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/in...1_17609522.jpg

Quote:

Foreign soldiers leave the Intercontinental Hotel at the end of a military operation against Taliban militants who had stormed the hotel in Kabul, on June 29, 2011. Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul sparking a five-hour battle with Afghan commandos backed by a NATO helicopter gunship in an assault that left at least 10 people dead.

This one just struck me like the shot every action movie wishes that it could have.
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/in...4_15914257.jpg

Quote:

An Afghan child watches as others from the Community Center for the Disabled (CCD) take part in a performance on child labor to honor "World Day Against Child Labour" at The French Culture Center in Kabul, on June 12, 2011.

Something about her just struck me, additionally I think that many people wouldn't have coded her as Afghan.

The rest of the photos at this link are excellent.

South Sudan!

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/in...2_09120056.jpg

Quote:

A woman holds a candle during South Sudan's independence day celebrations in Juba July 9, 2011. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/in...6_RTR2OHGI.jpg

Quote:

Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldiers hold AK-47 rifles during a rehearsal for the Independence Day ceremony in Juba, on July 5, 2011.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/in...6_RTR2ON4T.jpg

Quote:

A woman waves the flag of South Sudan during independence celebrations in Juba, South Sudan, on Saturday, July 9, 2011.