Editor's Pick Oct. 15-21
Each weekday, our photo editors will select one compelling image for prominent play in the newspaper. Readers can learn more about why the image was chosen and tips about shooting similar pictures at Photo Desk, our new online camera club. On Fridays, the daily image will be chosen from reader-submitted photos based on a weekly theme.
Seventeen-year-old Steve Odieno blows into a trumpet during band practice at a local school in the Korogocho slum in Nairobi on October 16, 2010. Odieno, who was born and raised in Western Kenya, is the eldest of five siblings and came to live in Nairobi with his father and to look for better quality schooling.ROBERTO SCHMIDT
A worker sets up lanterns for the annual autumn festival at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine, which is celebrating the 90th anniversary of its founding.YURIKO NAKAO
People make their way in a boat way across the Neuer See in Berlin's Tiergarten park, October 18, 2010 with trees in their autumn colours reflecting in the water. AFP PHOTO/ODD ANDERSEN (Photo credit should read ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)ODD ANDERSEN/AFP / Getty Images
A male sockeye salmon in a stream off of the Adams River at Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park north of Chase B.C. October 12, 2010.JOHN LEHMANN
Nico playing in the leaves at Grandma's. Credit: Ian MuttooIan Muttoo