A light finger of fog makes its way through downtown San Francisco at dawn on September 7, 2011. Market Street is illuminated by traffic at right. TERRY SCHMITT/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo129079
The best part of every year is when our partners start sending in their collections of their best pictures of the year. We get hundreds of thousands of images every year, that sometimes we forget to look for the really good ones. Fortunately we get these collections every year to help us remember the big events of the year and also to see some of the truly incredible shots that our partners got over the course of the year.
United Press International, UPI, is a Newscom partner and we’re featuring their collection here today. Headquartered in Washington D.C., UPI has been covering international news since 1907. Today they have offices all over the world. In this collection you can see their wide range of coverage from stunning landscape shots to entertainment to the biggest news stories of the year.
Check out the images in this blog, then you can go back to Newscom to see more of the best from UPI for 2011. (Please be patient. There are a lot of photos back at this link, so it may take a minute or two to load. But it’s totally worth it. We promise.)
Selena Gomez performs in concert at the Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton, Florida on July 28, 2011. MICHAEL BUSH/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo128983
The Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on July 8, 2011. Up to a million people watched the final launch of the space shuttle along the Florida coastline. The first shuttle launch 30 years ago in 1981. Pat Benic/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo129302
Finished statuettes for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are on display at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burban, California on January 21, 2011. Each statuette carries a serial number engraved at its base and 660 statuettes have been awarded since the Actor was first presented in 1995. The Actor statuette weighs 12 pounds and stands 16 inches tall. The Awards are to be held in Los Angeles Sunday January 30.
Herman Cain, candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, holds a 9-9-9 muffin for his tax plan as he adddress a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, DC on October 31, 2011. The Cain campaign strongly denied reports today that the former chief of Godfather's Pizza was involved in a sexual harassment case. NPS/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo129210
A model walks on the runway at the Marchesa fashion show at the Spring 2012 collections of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center In New York City on September 13, 2011. John Angelillo/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo128991
Palestinian man takes a ride on a horse at sunset on Gaza City beach on June 24, 2011. Ismael Mohamad/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo129071
Egyptian demonstrators protest in Cairo's main square square during the biggest anti-government protests in three decades in a bid to topple the government President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt on January 31, 2011. STR/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo129047
The light of the full moon mixes with the spray from Yosemite Falls to throw a beautiful lunar rainbow just before midnight on June 15, 2011 in Yosemite National Park. With snow pack at 199% of normal, the onset of summer has swollen rivers and supercharged waterfalls. TERRY SCHMITT/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo129056
Los Angeles Angels' Bobby Abreu is safe at second base as Washington Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa (18) can't make the catch in the fourth inning at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on June 29, 2011. LORI SHEPLER/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo129113
A veteran in the audience takes a smartphone picture of U.S. President Barack Obama as he makes a statement about the American Jobs Act and new executive actions that will help get veterans back to work, in the Rose Garden of the White House on November 7, 2011 in Washington, DC. Pat Benic/UPI/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotostwo129159
See the rest of UPI’s best of the year back at Newscom.
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