2008 Year in Pictures

Slide show: The Year in Photos

ADN: 2008 Year in Photos

2008 was a historic year for Alaska from corruption trials to Sarah Palin' nomination. See a collection of photographs that wrap the year up in a tight package.

Photos: Best of Sarah Palin

ADN: 2008 Year in Photos

There was no bigger story in Alaska last year than Sarah Palin's vice presidential nomination, and that frenzied three months on the trail provided some of the most dramatic images of the year.

Photo staff's selections

Fran Durner

A peony seed pod is as beautiful and as interesting as the flower itself. Peonies are in all stages of bloom in the Alaska Botanical Garden this week.

Marc Lester

Some leaves remain on Anchorage trees, like this one on 5th Avenue downtown, and already a heavy snowfall has hit the city on Thursday, October 9, 2008. A pedestrian shields herself in front of Orso, a restaurant downtown.

Erik Hill

A red-necked grebe offers fish to its chick Friday morning July 11, 2008 at Potter Marsh. The grebes have been a popular attraction at the new boardwalk lining the north shore of the marsh.

Bill Roth

An adult male Bald Eagle from Kodiak had the fish oil washed off of him at the Bird Treatment & Learning Center in Anchorage on Monday, January 14, 2007.

Bob Hallinen

Snow swirls around as the Anchorage Fire department responded to a shed fire off of Northway Drive on Tuesday evening November 11, 2008. The shed was fully involved before a tanker arrived to extinguish the blaze.

Stephen Nowers

Lance Kopsack crests Lazy Mountain on his way to Manatuska Peak during the 2008 Matanuska Peak Challenge on Saturday, August 2. Kopsack finished fifth.

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