In Focus always does a great job of summarizing world events through excellent photography so it's really no surprise that their three part series on 2012: The Year In Photos is incredibly compelling. The above Timothy Allen Buzludzh exploration photo is one of the most surreal for me but there's a wide range of powerful, absurd, unbelievable, perfect, gorgeous images. There's also plenty of somewhat horrifying and depressing images as well but it's not the overwhelming majority, so that's good.