Pictures of the week November 5th 2011

The Denver Post consistently has some of the best pictures presented as pictures of the week. Every time I visit the site I find something that moves me, something that makes me wish I had been there and something that makes me want to pick up my camera and go and take pictures. Doesn’t get better than that, here are just three go here and see the rest of the pictures of the week

In an Oct. 25, 2011 photo provided by the Santa Cruz Conference and Visitors Council, kayaker Alan Brady is surprised by two breaching humpback whales while kayaking off the coast of Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz, Calif. Photographer Paul Schraub was shooting pictures from a boat while on assignment for the Santa Cruz Conference and Visitors Council when he captured the moment. (AP Photo/Santa Cruz Conference and Visitors Council , Paul Schraub) #

Sunlight streams in to illuminate the scene as altar boys and Bishops arrive to attend mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI to commemorate cardinals and bishops who died in the past year, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) #

An Afghan man, center, selects a sheep to buy for the upcoming Eid-al-Adha festival, at a livestock market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov 2, 2011. Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice on Nov. 7, by slaughtering of sheep, goats, cows or camels. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #