The document provides a collection of uplifting images from 2016 that depict personal victories, families and friends enjoying time together, acts of compassion, volunteers helping those in need, and expressions of love. The images showcase gold medalist celebrations, emergency responders assisting animals, siblings supporting each other, couples in loving embraces, community tree planting efforts, and many other heartwarming moments from the past year.
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Hopeful Images from 2016
2. Hopeful Images From 2016
After another year of news stories that produced photos that can often be difficult or
disturbing to view, I thought I’d take the time to compose an essay of uplifting images
from the past year. The following are images of personal victories, families and friends
at play, expressions of love and compassion, volunteers at work, and assistance being
given to those in need.
3. Gold medalist Daniel Brown from Great Britain
celebrates his victory at the Rowing LTA Mix 4+ at
Lagoa Stadium on day 4 of the Rio 2016
Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on
September 11, 2016. Raphael Dias / Getty for the
International Paralympic Committee
4. Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz
Battalion Chief Aldo Gonzales feeds
an injured kitten at a home while
battling the Clayton Fire near
Lower Lake in California on August
15, 2016. Stephen Lam / Reuters
5. British athlete Alistair Brownlee (left) helps his
exhausted brother Jonathan Brownlee to cross
the finish line in second and third place during
the ITU World Triathlon Championships 2016 in
Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico on September
18, 2016. Elizabeth Ruiz / AFP / Getty
6. A couple kissing in front of Louvre
Pyramid and the Louvre museum by
night on November 2, 2016, in Paris,
France. Chesnot / Getty
7. The green sea turtle, also known as 'Honu', is a symbol
of good luck and longevity in Hawaiian lore. This
passing turtle provided a little mystique to the 2,300
athletes who awaited the start signal of a 140.6-mile
journey at the 2016 IRONMAN World Championship
triathlon on October 8, 2016 in Kailua Kona, Hawaii.
Donald Miralle / IRONMAN via Getty
8. A heat-stressed koala rests as a
resident pours water on its back on
December 19, 2015 in Adelaide,
Australia. Adelaide was experiencing
an extreme heatwave at the time.
Morne de Klerk / Getty
9. Indian women plant saplings on the outskirts of
Allahabad, India, on July 11, 2016. More than
800,000 volunteers in India's most populous state
of Uttar Pradesh planted nearly 50 million trees in a
24 hour period in hopes of setting a world record.
Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP
10. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (left) and Marxist rebel leader Timochenko shake hands after signing an accord ending a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people, in
Cartagena, Colombia, on September 26, 2016. John Vizcaino / Reuters
11. Zhiqiang Zhong of China drops his crutches
as he prepares to compete in the men's
high jump - T42 final during the Rio 2016
Paralympic Games at Olympic Stadium on
September 9, 2016. Atsushi Tomura / Getty
for Tokyo 2020
12. Wrapped in a Brazilian flag, Giovana Silva, 4,
cousin of the Brazilian Judo gold medalist Rafaela
Silva is hugged by a friend as they stand next to her
aunt Cristiane while she holds a poster of Rafaela
Silva, at Cidade de Deus slum in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, on August 9, 2016. Leo Correa / AP
13. A woman and her child enjoy sledding on a hill at sunset outside
St.Petersburg, Russia, on February 16, 2016. Dmitri Lovetsky / AP
14. Blind deer Tacoma stands in the living room of farmer Margret Nelles
(left) and her daughter Caroline, in Grafschaft-Nierendorf, Germany,
on March 20, 2016. Nelles was only trying to nurse the deer fawn back
to health after it was found injured in a pit, but Nelles soon realised
that the animal was blind. Thomas Frey / dpa / Corbis
15. Participants in the annual North East Skinny Dip run into the sea at Druridge Bay, England, on September 25, 2016. About 500 people swam naked in the North Sea to raise money for the mental health charity
MIND. Russell Cheyne / Reuters
16. New recruit "Pepper" the robot, a humanoid robot designed to welcome and take care of visitors and patients, holds the hand
of a newborn baby at AZ Damiaan hospital in Ostend, Belgium, on June 16, 2016. Francois Lenoir / Reuters
17. Members of the public enjoy a Christmas Tree Maze on December 7, 2016, in Edinburgh,Scotland. Jeff J Mitchell / Getty
18. Bird staff Holly Cale spends time with
Moccas, a one year old Andean
Condor at the ICBP (International
Center for Birds of Prey) on May 16,
2016 in Newent, England. Dan Kitwood
/ Getty
19. Lilly Caron, 8, of Bridgeton, Maine,
Jason Homchick, of San Diego, and
Lilly's father Jason Caron, (obscured),
ride the Sky Swing at Seacoast
Adventure in Wyndham, Maine, on
July 14, 2016. Robert F. Bukaty / AP
20. Chinese diver Qin Kai proposes to silver medalist He Zi of
China on the podium during the medal ceremony for the
Women's Diving 3m Springboard Final on Day 9 of the Rio
2016 Olympic Games at Maria Lenk Aquatics Center on
August 14, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Clive Rose / Getty
21. Nepalese children play on a swing,
popularly known as the "Dashain Ping",
on the sixth day of the Hindu festival of
Dashain in Lalitpur, on the outskirts of
Kathmandu, on October 7, 2016.
Prakash Mathema / AFP / Getty
22. Fifteen year-old Alaskan sea
otter 'Yutan' is given a heart-
shaped piece of ice treat by
his keeper at the aquarium at
the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise
amusement park in
Yokohama, a suburb of Tokyo,
on February 6, 2016. Toru
Yamanaka / AFP / Getty
23. New England
Patriots tight end
Martellus Bennett
cuddles with his
daughter, Jett, after
NFL football
training camp, on
August 16, 2016, in
Foxborough,
Massachusetts.
Elise Amendola /
AP
24. People dance in a pool as they attend the Arenal Sound music Festival held on Burriana beach on August 6, 2016. Arenal Sound Festival is a 5 days music festival attended by arounf 240,000 people on the east coast
of Spain between Valencia and Castellon. Jose Jordan / AFP / Getty
25. Bjorn, 6, poses for
pictures with Owl
butterflies at the
Natural History
Museum in central
London on March
23, 2016. Leon Neal
/ AFP / Getty
26. A boy enjoys catches some air while sledding down a hill on March 1, 2016 after heavy snowfall in Prague. Michal Cizek / AFP / Getty
27. Baby giraffe "Kenai" (right), born on
August 25, 2016, kisses his mother
"Dioni" on August 31 at the zoo in La
Fleche, France. Jean-Francois Monier /
AFP / Getty
28. A boy rests on concrete
blocks near the small port of
Ginostra on June 16, 2016
on the island of Stromboli.
Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty
29. A man throws her daughter into the air while they are silhouetted at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on August 30, 2016. Ahn Young-joon / AP
30. South Carolina Department of Natural
Resources officer Gregg Lowery rescues
a cat from floodwaters caused by
Hurricane Matthew while patrolling for
evacuees in Nichols, South Carolina, on
October 10, 2016. Randall Hill / Reuters
31. Actor Alexander Skarsgard kisses a baby
Kangaroo during the Legend of Tarzan
Photo Call at WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo on
June 14, 2016, in Sydney, Australia. Ryan
Pierse / Getty
32. Cyclists Shawn Morelli and Megan Fisher of Team USA
sing at the podium with their gold and bronze medals
won in the Women's C4 3000m Individual Pursuit at the
2016 Rio Paralympics. Ricardo Moraes / Reuters
33. A novice Buddhist monk
walks with a puppy at a
monastic school in the
suburbs of Yangon, Burma,
on February 18, 2016.
Gemunu Amarasinghe / AP
34. A three-old-day male baby Asian elephant stands next to
his mother Janita in their enclosure at the Prague Zoo on
April 8, 2016 in Prague, Czech Republic. According to the
zoo, the baby is the first Asian elephant to be both
conceived and born in 82 year history of the Prague Zoo.
Matej Divizna / Getty
35. Dexis Casadiego, a veterinarian and part owner of the Funasissi
animal shelter, caresses an abandoned dog at the private
shelter in the working-class Caracas neighborhood of El
Junquito, Venezuela, on July 23, 2016. Fernando Llano / AP
36. Canada's men's wheelchair basketball
team player Adam Lancia kisses his
wife Jamey Jewells of Canada after her
match at the Rio Olympic Arena on
September 15, 2016. Ueslei Marcelino
/ Reuters
37. A couple shares a kiss while they
take pictures in the middle of a
cosmos field at Olympic Park in
Seoul, South Korea, on September
21, 2016. Ahn Young-joon / AP