images, layers, labels and panels.. something's wrong somewhere, please help!

I made a class called imgObj, so that I could add custom attributes to an Image, such as name, position and layer (front, back, ect.)

Before further explaination, I'll just post the code:

Code :

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public class Window extends JFrame {
 
	private ArrayList<imgObj> allImages;
	private JLabel[] labels;
	private JPanel[] panels;	//<-- contains the labels.
	private JLayeredPane aLPane = new JLayeredPane() ; //<-- contains the panel.
 
	public Window(){
		super("title");
		setLayout(new BorderLayout());
		add(aLPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
		aLPane.setBounds(0,0,800,600);
 
		LoadImages();
		labels = new JLabel[allImages.size()];
		panels = new JPanel[allImages.size()];
 
		//loop through allImages, and give all images a label, and adds the label to the window.
		int counter = 0;
		for(imgObj i : allImages){
				labels[counter] = new JLabel(i.getImg());
				labels[counter].setOpaque(true);
				labels[counter].setBackground(Color.BLUE);
				labels[counter].setBounds(i.getPosx(), i.getPosy(), i.getImg().getIconWidth(),i.getImg().getIconHeight());
				panels[counter].add(labels[counter]);
				panels[counter].setOpaque(true);
				panels[counter].setBounds(0, 0, 800, 600);
				panels[counter].setBackground(Color.BLACK);
				System.out.printf("%s was added to window, as pos (%d ; %d)\n", i.getName(), i.getPosx(), i.getPosy());
				counter++;
				aLPane.add(panels[counter], new Integer(i.getLayer()), 0);
		}
 
	}
}

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My problem is: when I run the code, I get a NullPointerException at the "panels[counter].add(labels[counter]);".
When looking at the variables in the debug-window (i am using Eclipse), I can see that both my imgObj icons are loaded correctly, and it seems that nothing is wrong the first time the enhanced for-loop is running (yet the console does not print " ... was added to window at pos..."), but the second time, the i.getImg() in "labels[counter] = new JLabel(i.getImg());" is null.

Any help will (of course) be appriciated, and I will gladly elaporate anything which I have (tried to) explained in this first post..

When you debug, look at the value of panel[counter]....an array of JPanel's is created, but the members of that array must each be instantiated.

Yep, that was it, #2!
Thank you!