Because they make me happy

[pecunium]

With tomorrow being the day it is, and the hope so many of us have about the possibility of tossing the morons who've been screwing things up for the past eight years of of office (for those who wonder what I really want to see happen, I laid it out four years ago

In fact, because I want [them]to be overthrown, (nay smashed, destroyed, the walls torn from the foundations; rent asunder so not one brick remains standing on another, the fragments dispersed,the ground sown with salt, their programs erased, their hopes and aspirations held up to obliquy and ridicule; an example to the nations of what shall not be done again and their names remembered for all time in the halls of shame and disgust, shown to be Quislings; puppets of enemeies who saw their petty lusts and played them to gain their own fell ends at the price of our liberties and freedoms. I want to see the what they have done entered into the rolls of those things we must not forget, (nor ever allow to be done again... but I digress) I want them to live an easy life, with nothing more than the peaceful defeat of their party, in an ovewhelming repudiationat the polls. Followed by a fading into oblivion as the doom and despair they predict as they depart the stage fails to come to pass.

But I digress.)

Here are some happier thoughts, pictures I took in Kiev, two summers ago.

Comments

[julieannie.livejournal.com]

The wedding picture made me think Russia or a former Soviet nation. I'm surprised I got it right!

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Yummmmm, Slavic women! And Ukrainian women often wear their hair in beautiful braids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko).

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Ah, and there's also the day after tomorrow -- when we can hope to celebrate the figurative demolition of some of the Halls of Power in our Government.

[swseat.livejournal.com]

young brides and butterflys, Lovely.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

The flowers & butterfly seem typical of your work -- great Detail, with a Painterly sense of composition. And somehow the fact that it's a dark/cryptic kind of butterfly, rather than a conventionally pretty one, makes the effect even more striking.

Similarly, the bride -- though not at all un-petty or unattractive -- practically radiates an aura of Competence, which one rarely sees in the usual wedding photographs.

One of my peeves with (amateur) photographers (including myself) is the tendency to display photos ... ummm.... because they're there, rather than because they're especially good. (Not that this is limited to photographers, by any means -- many writers, and talkers, do much the same thing with words.) Yeah, I admire your ability to be highly-selective in the visual field.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I work at it. Some of it is that I have to work at it. To post a photo here requires not less than 10 minutes of work. Some of them, like this one:



Actually take a lot more, and the time (about 45 minutes) in Photoshop, needs to be worth the effort.

I'm flattered you think it is.