Best Shots (166) ~ Samuel Fossos

(193) Samuel Fossos ~ Self-portrait as an African Chief (19 June 2011).

Best Shots (165) ~ Stephen Wright

(192) Stephen Wright ~ The Smiths (12 June 2011).

Best Shot (164) ~ Philip-Lorca diCorcia

(191) Philip-Lorca diCorcia ~ Test Shot for Hustlers (5 June 2011).

Best Shot (163) ~ Desmond Muckian

(190) Desmond Muckian ~ Florence Welch, 2010 (29 May 2011).

Best Shots (162) ~ Moby

(189) Moby - Insomniac's View, Chicago 2008 (24 May 2011).

Best Shots (161) ~ Georg Gerster

(188) Georg Gerster ~ Takht-e Soleyman, Iran 1976 (5 May 2011).

Best Shots (160) ~ Philippe Vermès

(187) Philippe Vermès ~ Atelier Populaire, May '68
(27 April 2001).

Best Shots (159) ~ Melanie Friend

(186) Melanie Friend ~ East Berlin, 1990 (20 April 2011).

Best Shots (158) ~ John Gossage

(185) John Gossage ~ Ruby (13 April 2011).

Best Shots (157 ) ~ Rodrigo Moya

(184) Rodrigo Moya ~ Guerrilla's, Venezuela, 1966 (6 April 2011).

Best Shots (156) ~ Fergus Greer

(183) Fergus Greer ~ Leigh Bowery, 1989 (30 March 2011).

Best Shots (155) ~ Amy Stein

(182) Amy Stein ~ Peri. Route 64,Outside
Lexington Kentucky. (23 March 2011).

Best Shots (154) ~ Bob Gruen

(181) Bob Gruen - Iggy Pop & Debbie Harry,
Toronto, 1977 (17 March 2011).

Best Shots (153) ~ Ziad Antar

(180) Ziad Antar ~ Walid Jumblatt, Labanon, 2005 (9 March 2011).

Best Shots (152) ~ Polly Braden

(179) Polly Braden ~ Homeless man in army uniform. Hottest day
of the year - Xiamen, China, August 2007 (2 March 2011).

Best Shots (151) ~ Michael Hess

(178) Michael Hess ~ Bingo, Southampton 2008 (23 February 2011).

Best Shots (150) ~ Nicholas Muellner

(177) Nicholas Muellner ~ Untitled, 2003 (16 February 2011).

For the second week running I will break with habit an comment on one of The Guardian's series of "Best Shots." As it turns out Muellner lives not too far from where I live; indeed I have been to the falls he depicts here. And then there is his comment about the photograph:

" The image has an ominous feel. At the time, I was shooting a lot of beautiful winter landscapes that had a sinister feeling. This was during the buildup to the Iraq war, so I wanted to make images that had a sense of history and knowledge slipping away, being covered up. That's what the snow is doing. And the people walking toward the waterfall are literally walking on thin ice. Logic tells you they're on the ground – but in the picture, they're just floating in white space. "

Best Shots ( 149 ) ~ Elina Brotherus

(176) Elina Brotherus ~ Self Portrait (?) 2003 (9 February 2011).

I normally don't comment on the images in this series. First I want to once again thank The Guardian for running it and for their photography coverage more generally. Then I want to say that I have a question. What does it mean to say this is Brotherrus's "best shot" when someone else actually clicked the shutter? Just asking.

Best Shots (148) ~ Robert McCabe

(175) Robert McCabe - Emperor Penguin, Ross Island,
Antarctica, October 1959 (2 February 2011).

Best Shots (147) ~ Victoria Jenkins

(174) Victoria Jenkins ~ Smoke & Mirrors (26 January 2011).