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Happy New Year! To ring it in right, check out LIFE's gallery of New Year's Around the World and Pictures of the Decade, as well as New York Times' picks for best photos of 2010.

It's the end of an era: Kodachrome, the first successful color film, will no longer be available as of Thursday, when the last processor in the world of Kodachrome (located in a small town in Kansas) will shut down its processing machine. Kodak stopped making Kodachrome film in 2009. Read more here.

This fascinating story from Chicago Magazine reveals how a totally unknown street photographer, Vivian Maier, became internationally known shortly after she died as an old woman. See more of her photos here too.

Photographer Tim Flach reveals the inspirations and motivations behind his phenomenal photography of dogs and horses. Read more here.

Check out this unreal National Geographic gallery of Vietnam's enormous caves, many of them newly discovered.

Also, if it's any consolation, read this article by Photo Attorney, which details the unfortunate process (but improving circumstances) that photographer Daniel Morel has undergone in his infringement lawsuit against Lisandro Suero.