It’s that time again, Carnival season is upon us. Well…not US being that we’re in New York, but just about everywhere else in the world is partying it up. Hot off the heels of my post of Jose’s photos from DR, the crew at The Big PIcture have put together a great gallery of celebrations all over the world, including Trinidad, Brazil, Nice, Venice and more. Check out a few of the best shots below….

Once more, it is Carnival Season in many countries around the world with a Roman Catholic heritage. Celebrations and parades are put on just prior to the observance of Lent. Over the past few weeks parades and celebrations have taken place throughout Europe, the Caribbean and South America. An estimated 730,000 foreign tourists, many fleeing snowy winter conditions in Europe and the United States, traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for this year’s celebrations. Collected here are a handful of images from some of the elaborate celebrations of this Carnival season.

For the full gallery of 39 photos, click here: The Big Picture: Carnival 2010.

One of, if the best, photoblogs on the internet is Boston.com’s The Big Picture. They recently put together a piece on the continuing aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake. Check out a sampling of the photos below…

Tomorrow (Feb. 2nd) will mark three weeks since the massive January 12th earthquake in Haiti, and tent cities remain full, even as some businesses and factories are beginning to reopen in Port-au-Prince. Now that massive amounts of aid have arrived, distribution problems have cropped up and are being addressed. The World Food Program has begun a new system of delivering rice to 10,000 Haitians per day at each of 16 women-only distribution points around the city - restricted to women, since young men often muscle their way to the front of distribution lines, and the women are viewed as more likely to fairly divide up the food. Aid chiefs and donor nations are warning that Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction.

For the full gallery, featuring 40 photos, click here: The Big Picture: Haiti three weeks later.

They also put together an earlier piece, with 46 photos, after the earthquake struck. For that feature, click here: The Big Picture: Faces of Haiti.

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