Say "cheese," you damned planet Earth.

I don’t know if it was Boing Boing or Kottke that first pointed me in the direction of the great photography site, The Big Picture, but I’m grateful to whichever it was. Currently featured is the amazing “2009 in Photos,” which covers everything from Obama’s inauguration to the June political riots in Tehran. My personal favorites are the eye-popping shots from the Hubble Space Telescope. Feast on the three-part feature.