WOW. 😯

Wow. Americans are a bit pepper-spray happy eh?

Land of the free and all that.

Blimey! Nature’s not been reet happy this year, has she?

Amazing stuff.

The one with the dog lying on the ground! Wow!

Anyone else find that incredibly depressing? 45 ‘powerful’ images and only 5 or 6 that related to hope, or happiness, or in fact anything positive at all.

Must have been a cheerful group of people who chose that lot.

A bit US centric but otherwise a good selection.

I thought these were powerful too

protestor in Egypt

corpes in Norway

really like this one in terms of composition…there was another one in this series of a North Korean boy (maybe about 6 or so) working in a field, that was good too.

In terms of sport the Johnny Hoogerlands injured arse and leg was a great shot too, but a bit NSFW to post here

Other ones that stick in the mind – Gaddafi doing his fist pumping out the car sunroof, an old guy on crutches in Libya or Syria and he was firing an RPG and one of a protestor in Greece setting fire to himself in front of a bank.

Well, I would say about 3 of them might be amongst the 45 most powerful images of 2011.

Plently of “more powerful” images here IMHO: Press Photographer of the Year awards.