2001: The Year in Pictures: Life's like that

By MIKE WILSON, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published December 30, 2001

Take a look back at 2001 through the lenses and thoughts of St. Petersburg Times photographers.

Our photographers' favorite pictures of 2001 show a universe of events -- a family gathering vegetables for the needy, a child luxuriating in an inflatable pool, a man painting a landscape.

But if we had to come up with a single word to describe what these pictures are really about, we think relationships would do pretty well.

See the young Sudanese immigrants united in wonder as they switch on a lamp. See the toddler apparently Velcro-ed to her mother's back, a physical bond serving as a metaphor for an emotional one. See the Jack Russell terrier lagging behind in a race, its ears flattened in defeat as two faster competitors spring like superdogs over a barrier.

For more photos see: A gallery of 2001

See the landscape artist document his beautiful Florida, modestly leaving himself out; the photojournalist's lens puts him back in the picture.

Envy, love, encouragement, amazement, awe -- our photographers saw all of these things in their view finders in 2001. Read on, and they'll explain why these relationships moved them so.

-- MIKE WILSON, Floridian editor

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