PDN presented the winning images of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual, which were submitted by an international group of photographers.
Apart from the obvious talent so amply displayed by all the photographers, I was gratified to see that most of the winners in the Web Sites category have used large images...and some like David Maitland and Dani Brubaker have used enormous images on their websites' landing pages.
I've been advocating that larger is better for a long time. My previous posts can be found here, and on Photocrati as well.