Afghan men and pigeons

Photo by Farshad Usyan, AFP, Getty Images

Candid photography

Beautiful shoots in the candid photography style at the New Year Eve celebrations:

Singapore

AP

Paris

Etienne Laurent, EPA

Beijing

Ed Jones, AFP, Getty Images

Edinburgh

James Glossop, Times

Edinburgh

James Glossop, Times

Paris

Benoit Tessier, Reuters

Edinburgh

David Moir, Reuters

Beijing

Ed Jones, AFP, Getty Images

Fred Dufour, AFP, Getty Images

Long exposure in low light

New Year Eve celebration photos includes some amazing illustrations of long exposure in poor lightening conditions:

Photo by Patrick Pleul, AFP

(eastern Germany, near Sieversdorf)

Photo by James Glossop, Times

(Edinburgh, Scotland)

Fireworks photos from around the world

Athens:

Aris Messinis, AFP

Beijing:

Ed Jones, AFP, Getty Images

Berlin:

Tobias Schwarz, Reuters

Copacabana:

Felipe Dana, AP

Dakar:

Mamadou Toure Behan, AFP, Getty Images

Dressden:

Robert Michael, AFP

Dubai:

AFP

Edinburgh:

Danny Lawson, PA

Jakarta:

Dita Alangkara, AP

Jerusalem:

Ahmad Gharabli, AFP, Getty Images

Hong Kong:

Anthony Dickson, AFP

King Cheung, AP

Anthony Dickson, AFP

Kuala Lumpur:

EPA

Las Vegas:

Brian Jones, AP Photo, Las Vegas News Bureau

London:

Oli Scarff, Getty Images

Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images

Dominic Lipinski, PA

Adrian Dennis, AFP, Getty Images

Adrian Dennis, AFP, Getty Images

Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images

Adrian Dennis, AFP, Getty Images

Madeira Islands:

Gregorio Cunha, AFP

Moscow:

Mikhail Voskresensky, Reuters

Natalia Kolesnikova, AFP, Getty Images

New York:

Monika Graff, Getty Images

Mary Altaffer, AP

Mary Altaffer, AP

Gary Hershorn, Reuters

Paris:

Miguel Medina, AFP, Getty Images

Pyongyang:

AFP (KCNA via KNS)

Rome:

Vincenzo Pinto, AFP

Rio de Janeiro:

Ari Versiani, AFP

Shanghai:

Stringer, Reuters

Singapore:

Roslan Rahman, AFP, Getty Images

Roslan Rahman, AFP

St Petersburg:

Alexander Demianchuk, Reuters

Stuttgart:

Marijan Murat, EPA

Taipei:

Pichi Chuang, Reuters

Tegucigalpa:

Orlando Sierra, Getty Images

Tokyo:

Kazuhiro Nogi, AFP

Vina del Mar:

Marcos Brindicci, Reuters

Yangon:

Ye Aung Thu, AFP, Getty Images

Sydney Fireworks Photography 2013

Happy New Year 2013!

Sydney New Year Eve spectacular fireworks weighted 7 tonnes, costed $6.6 million AUD and had an audience of 1.6 million people live around the Sydney Harbour, 2.3 million across the country and more than a billion around the globe. Pop princess Kylie Minogue helped choosing the theme of the fireworks – Embrace – the colour scheme and soundtrack. She was also the one who pushed the button!

But who captured the most spectacular photo of the Sydney New Year Eve Fireworks 2013?

Media

Most popular photos (like it or not, by now they are everywhere – the only reason for which you might not have seen it is that you don’t have a Facebook account):

 Image Courtesy of City of Sydney

A great ‘kiss’ version offers us David Gray, from Reuters:

                                                                        or Damian Shaw, from AAP:

but I highly admired the shoots of Cameron Spencer, Getty Images, as well:

Tom Gray, Reuters, chooses also a city perspective:

A unique display was captured by Tim Wimborne, from Reuters:

My breath was taken away by the less comercial image featured above from City of Sydney:

(I’m quite curious by now who are the City of Sydney‘ photographers -credits should be in order!)

Attila Szilvasi’s composition is also impressive:

One of the few vantage point photos belongs to Edwina Pickles, from Sydney Morning Herald:

while the shoot of Rohan Kelly, from Sunday Telegraph, brings in a little bit of a vanishing point perspective :

Greg Wood, AFP, takes over the early fireworks:

Sydney Photographers

Sydney-based photographer Vincent Lai teaches an amazing lesson when obtaining some wonderful images with a tiny point and shoot camera, and hand holding it:

Also, Rachel Greig‘s Instagram-inspired capture of the 9 pm family-oriented fireworks is just lovely: