Best Photos of the Year From Around the World


Best Photos of the Year From Around the World

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By AARP   Published December 29, 2022


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Jump to Section Panda-monium Starlings Swoop & Swirl Big Air An Olympic Dream Ravishing Ranunculus Cherry On Top Swim It To Win It Rainbow of Blooms


Walk of Fame Buffalo On the Move Master of Agility Box ‘Til You Drop Supermoon Over San Francisco Summertime Storm Flying High Baby’s First Steps Bat-Man Queen of Our Hearts Pretty Pyramid


Something Fishy Hop To It! On Pointe Lady Liberty Will The Real Santa Please Stand Up? Panda-monium Chen Xianlin/VCG via Getty Images


Giant pandas play in the snow in mid-January at the Shenshuping Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, in China’s Sichuan province.

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Starlings Swoop & Swirl Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis via Getty Images


Thousands of starlings twist, turn, swoop and swirl in intricately coordinated patterns on Jan. 17 above Rome, Italy. Scientists believe these breathtaking flock patterns, called


murmurations, offer safety in numbers. 

Back to List Big Air Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images


USA's Megan Nick competes in the women’s freestyle skiing aerials final Feb. 14 during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Zhangjiakou, China.


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Members only An Olympic Dream Jean Catuffe/Getty Images


Team USA’s Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier compete Feb. 7 in the pair skating free skate during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

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A worker carries bundles of giant ranunculus March 16 at The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch in Carlsbad, California. The flower fields grow about 70 million ranunculus across 55 acres on


the working flower farm during the flower’s season, from early March to early May. 

Back to List Cherry On Top STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images


Cherry blossoms bloom March 6 near the Washington Monument along the National Mall in Washington, D.C.


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