As the photo editor for Wired News, where the stories and galleries are constantly streaming in, I don't often get to reflect on the images we put up after they've been published. So this particular year in review was a pleasant change of pace. 2007 has seen a lot of excellent galleries on the site (and some real duds) but these are my favorite chosen from our most popular.

### 10. BSOD Through the Ages

One of our most popular galleries this year, this feature gives a brief history of the Blue Screen of Death and shows how it pops up in some of the most unlikely places.

### 9. Star Trek's 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures

This gallery has three of my favorite elements: Geeky nostalgia, Lore Sjoberg's wit and bad costumes. One wonders if the plots or the props came first in these episodes.

### 8. Planetary Imagery: 30 Years From Voyager Spacecraft

Simply stunning images from the Voyager missions. We had a difficult time keeping this gallery to 24 images.

### 7. Best Transformers Fan Photos

I was a huge Transformers fan as a kid – I had Transformers bedding and watched the original animated movie every weekend – so it was fantastic to see all my old favorite toys. Some of the collections people sent in were very impressive.

### 6. Best of Burning Man

Reinventing society in the desert isn't the easiest event to cover, but photographer Lane Hartwell snuck out some spectacular shots that really captured the essence of the art exhibits there. Her night photographs and aerial shots from the Playa are some of the best we've seen anywhere.

### 5. Steam-Driven Dreams: The Wondrously Whimsical World of Steampunk

For every web trend, there's an intangible critical mass of interest that percolates, boils over and then fizzles. We may have missed the boiling point of Steampunk on this gallery, but it's still my favorite piece on the subject.

### 4. Endless Assembly Lines and Giant Cafeterias; Inside China's Vast Factories

Ed Burtynsky magnanimously contributed his striking photos of industrial China to Wired.com and gave us some insight into his experiences there. I think the scale of the photos is more educational than any news story I've read on China's growth.

### 3. The Lost Arcade Games of the Soviet Union

Resurrected communist video games housed in a bomb shelter? We should've known it would be a Wired hit. The photos are flat and low quality, but they're fitting of the simple machines and their unglamorous home.

### 2. NSFW Gallery: Blu-Ray Porn, Mechanized Masturbation and Upskirts at Japan's First Sex Show

Anything with "sex" in the title tends to get a lot of interest from readers, but I think this gallery was popular because it was an honest snapshot of Japanese sexuality that didn't fetishize it. The hand-crafted statues, the Clitoraid exhibit and the flower shop lady were things I wouldn't expect to find at an adult expo in the U.S.

### 1. The 'Winners' of the Wired News Saddest-Cubicle Contest

This contest turned out to be a huge hit. Though we suspected many of our readers toiled away in cubicle hell, we were surprised by the overwhelming response to the gallery. Reader submitted photos are some of our favorites, and they can be some of the most compelling images we have on the site due to their voyeuristic quality.