10 Mind Blowing Pictures of 2010

Photography is a very technical subject at the same time highly customizable. Each photographer has his or her own style that they incorporate into their photos.

The equipment can only do so much. But it still depends on you and how you want other people to see a commonplace object or perspective. Let’s see 10 mind surprising and amazing pictures of 2010

Grand Terre Island, USA

Grand Terre Island, USA

Photograph by Benjamin Lowy / Reportage by Getty Images Crude oil washes ashore following the sinking of the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on Grand Terre Island, LA., June 7, 2010.

Gadabedji, Niger

Gadabedji Niger

Photograph by Marco Di Lauro / Reportage by Getty Images
Entrails of dead animals hang in Gadabedji, Niger, where meat traders buy the animals’ dead bodies to cook on the spot and send to Nigeria, June 27, 2010.

Yushu County, Qinghai Province, China

Yushu County, Qinghai Province, China

Photograph by Ni Yuxing / EPA An ethnic Tibetan monk throws the body of a child onto a funeral pyre in a ditch in Jiegu Town of Yushu County, Qinghai province, after an earthquake registering 7.1 on the richter scale hit the area. April 19, 2010. Over 1,400 people died in the disaster.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

Photograph by Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

This temporary shelter on the site of a tent city in Port-Au-Prince, was constructed from various materials, plywood, metal, sheetrock and bedsheets. A number of these huts contained televisions powered by electricity drawn from the nearby presidential palace, February, 2010.

Madrid, Spain

during a bullfight

Photograph by Alberto Simon / AFP / Getty Images
Spanish Bullfighter Julio Aparicio is gored in the throat by a bull during a bullfight at the San Isidro Feria at the Plaza de Toro las Ventas bullring in Madrid, May 21, 2010. The bull’s horn went though Aparico’s tongue and penetrated the roof of the mouth, fracturing the jawbone. His life was saved after two operations. The bull, however, was quickly killed by other matadors.

Karachi, Pakistan

arrested member of the outlawed militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

Photograph by Akhtar Soomro / Reuters
An arrested member of the outlawed militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is presented to the media at the Police Crime Investigation Department in Karachi, March 29, 2010. Police had earlier arrested three members of the outlawed Sunni militant group and seized up to 60 kg (132 lbs) of explosives and detonators.

Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Graffiti left behind by Taliban fighters

Photograph by Finbarr O’Reilly / Reuters
Graffiti left behind by Taliban fighters remains on the walls of a compound now used as a command center for the U.S Marine Corps’s First Battalion, Eighth Marines at Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand provinceNovember 10, 2010. An important battleground in the war against Taliban insurgents and the narcotics industry, Musa Qala has changed hands several times, most recently in December 2007 when Afghan and international forces retook the town from the Taliban. Artwork by British and American troops stationed at the command center now sits alongside that of their Taliban foes.

Kuwait

McDonald's comforts at Ali Al Salem Air Force Base in Kuwait

Photograph by Peter van Agtmael / Magnum Photos
McDonald’s is one of the few comforts at Ali Al Salem Air Force Base in Kuwait, a primary hub for U.S. soldiers and contractors transiting to and from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Castel Gandolfo, Italy

Pope Benedict XVI watches the movie Pius XII

Photograph by Osservatore Romano / Reuters
Pope Benedict XVI watches the movie Pius XII, Under the Roman Sky, at his residence south of Rome, Apr. 13, 2010. Starring James Cromwell as Pius XII, the film explores Hitler’s treatment of the Jews in Rome and his attempt to kidnap the Pope.

Dover Air Force Base, USA

Marine carry team carries a transfer case

Photograph by Steve Ruark / AP
A Marine carry team carries a transfer case containing the remains of Cpl. Claudio Patino IV at Dover Air Force Base, Del, June 25, 2010. According to the Department of Defense, Patino, 22, of Yorba Linda, Calif., died June 22 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province. In 2009, the Pentagon lifted a ban that forbade members of the news media from covering the dignified transfer of the remains of U.S. servicemen and women at Dover Air Force Base. On April 5th, 2009 right after the ban was lifted, around 40 reporters and photographers were present for the return of the remains of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Virginia. But these days, Photographer Steve Ruark a freelance photographer with the Associated Press is often the only member of the news media present. He has been to Dover for dignified transfers more than ninety times.

Panjshir Province, Afghanistan

donkey transports ballot boxes

Photograph by Ahmad Masood / Reuters
A donkey transports ballot boxes to villages unreachable by vehicles north of Kabul, Sept. 17, 2010. Afghanistan held parliamentary elections on September 18. Voter turnout was lower than in any of the four national elections held in post-Taliban Afghanistan, with violence keeping voter numbers low. Widespread allegations of fraud tainted the final results.