Best Photos of 2008

The Boston Globe has a retrospective of the best 120 photos of 2008 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) up on Boston.com. I highly recommend looking at all of them, but if you don’t have the time, here are my favorites:

• Lighting above a volcano
• Space shuttle Discovery lifts off
• Ski jumping in Czech Republic
• An equestrian take on the Tour de France
• Boxers
• Barack Obama waves to the crowd in Fredericksburg, VA
• Competitive diving in Bosnia
• A spectator raises her fist in celebration seconds after it was announced that Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States at Ebenezer Baptist Church