Being able to take a photo these days isn't exactly difficult. You can just pull out your phone or camera, tap a few times, and you're done. But just because taking pictures is easy doesn't mean capturing a truly amazing one is.
That's why a great photo can still stop you in your tracks. On Reddit, users shared the most powerful images they've ever seen, and we've put together some of the best ones below. Scroll down to see them, and hopefully, they'll move you too.
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So much about life is conveyed in such a simple image. A picture truly does say a thousand words.
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This picture makes me feel so happy inside. It's about simple pleasures. I remember the first time I saw this photograph and was so tickled by the gaze of admiration that this little boy has on his face. He is so happy, just him and his ice cream cone.
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The Hubble Deep Field image.
And that's just a piece of 'empty' sky the diameter of a straw.
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This is a sunset on Mars. The amount of effort, science, hope, manpower, time, EVERYTHING that went into capturing that image is beyond my comprehension.
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The face of a boy hearing for the first time
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Antarctica
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This. Not that it's gripping, or joyful, or makes tears come to my eyes. It's the sudden realization that two seemingly irreconcilable points of view can *both* be correct.
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This image shattered my conception of history. I have never seen older pictures of people smiling, so over time I just developed the idea that history was full of grim and mirthless people.
To see these two breaking out into laughter, in such a human fashion, really shocked me. All I could think when I saw this photo was "Life.".