In keeping with tradition, Time magazine has chosen the top photos of the year, in a few different categories, shot by photographers around the world. Below are a few examples but the slideshows offered at Time.com provide more than 100 photos, each in a beautiful big-screen format (and with more complete captions).
A boy draped in an American flag rests on the shoulders of a flag merchant
in Times Square prior to a ticker-tape parade for the U.S. Women’s World Cup championship team.
Hilary Swift—The New York
Times/Redux
California wildfire
Tomas Munita—The New York Times/Redux
Refugees fill the streets of a bombed-out section of Damascus, Syria
UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND
WORKS—Reuters
Tulip fields in the Netherlands
George Steinmetz
The remains of Gaza City
Tomas Munita—The New York Times/Redux
A wounded Syrian girl in a make-shift hospital
Abd Doumany—AFP/Getty Images
The eagle mascot (live bird) for an Italian soccer team takes a seat
Alessandro Bianchi—Reuters
The city of Kobane, near the Turkish border, destroyed in the Syrian civil war Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty
Images
Opening ceremonies for IAAF track and field championships in Beijing, China
DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI—Reuters
Fleeing refugee family enters Hungary
Bernadett Szabo—Reuters
Fireworks in Malta under a full moon
DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI—Reuters
The picture of the Syrian refugees is one of the most amazing shots I've ever seen!
Unfortunately, there are no pictures of Selweski leaving the State of Michigan.