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And the 2011 recap race is off and running with today’s Buzzfeed recap of 45 images from the year. Lots of great stuff there.

Buzzfeed reports that the above photo of Jupiter with lo and Ganymede has been named Astronomy Photo of 2011.

A sunspot so massive it can be seen without a telescope is expected to remain active for another week. (For scale, an image of the Earth was inserted above.) Scientists recently concluded that sunspot activity has an effect on the Earth’s weather, but to what degree remains unknown.

Or Billie Holiday. Or Viola Wills. (Source)

Courtesy of the publisher and Popular Publicity today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Gay In America, the coffee table book out today from noted photographer Scott Pasfield. In this first-ever photographic survey of gay men in America, stereotypes are laid to rest and an intimate, honest picture of contemporary gay life is revealed through stunning personal portraits and narratives. Photographer Scott …

More photos. (Tipped by JMG reader Jeffrey)

These are greatly magnified grains of sand.

This gorgeous image was taken by famed photographer Marius Bugge for my Pride Magazine 2011 cover story on Dan Savage. (Marius also shot our last two covers with Dan Choi and Rachel Maddow.) This year’s issue of Pride will begin appearing in the usual locations this weekend and I’ll post an excerpt from my interview shortly. By the way, I …

Taken from Marin County, California’s Mount Tamalpais, with Sutro Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. This above size doesn’t do this photo justice, so click over for a much larger version and an explanation of the photographer’s unusual technique.

New York City’s thousands of bodegas are ruled by thousands of cats. And now there’s a Flickr group devoted to them.

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog has a great series of photos of Tuesday’s solar eclipse. The above image was taken by a telescope on a low-orbit satellite. RELATED: The Big Picture has been named to Regator’s Top Ten Blogs Of 2010. And so has this here website thingy.

Hit this link for 19 amazing examples of high dynamic range photography.

(Via – Boing Boing)

Via press release: POSITIVELY AWARE, a leading magazine devoted to HIV treatment, today announced that “A Day With HIV In America,” a photo essay published in the new November/December 2010 issue of the print magazine, is viewable online, tying in with World AIDS Day on December 1. Taken in cities and towns around the country on September 21, 2010, this …

Check out the Boston Globe’s amazing recap of the images submitted for National Geographic’s 2010 photography contest. The size of this post doesn’t do the larger version justice.

Punk legend Patti Smith has won the National Book Award for Just Kids, her “sweetly evocative” memoir of her life with the late legendary gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Accepting the award to applause and cheers, Ms. Smith — clearly the favorite of the night — choked up as she recalled her days as a clerk in the Scribner’s bookstore in …

The photographer granted the final roll of Kodachrome has turned in his film. What should a photographer shoot when he’s entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome? Steve McCurry took aim at the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal and a few human icons, too. Paul Simon, the crooner synonymous with the fabled film’s richly saturated colors, shied away. But …

Gothamist reports that after a study of millions of photos on Flickr, scientists at Cornell have concluded that the glass entrance to Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue basement Apple store is now the fifth most photographed object in NYC and the 28th most photographed in the world. The top four in NYC: Empire State Building, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central. Embiggen …

Famed American photographer Spencer Tunick was commissioned by the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras for a mass nude photo on the steps of the Opera House. From a Sydney Morning Herald reporter (and participant) account: There were elderly couples walking down Macquarie Street, single young women in cars and plenty of gay groups whooping it up as they headed …