Saturday, June 10, 2017

#Photography on the Blog 6/10

You may be concerned about helicopter parenting and with good reason but it's not likely you can match these Chinese mothers.


Gansu, China

Tibetan parents wait outside a high school as their children take China’s annual national college entrance exam

Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters

The children can't even escape them in a testing hall and what's that shaker thing held be Mama No. 1 on the left.  Is that a Whacker for kids who do not perform well.  We see a whole lotta strange in China this day.



But France was not to be outdone.


Paris, France

Diners dressed in white participate in a Diner en Blanc event in front of the city hall

Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images

What say all of us dress in white to sit outside some beautiful buildings and eat.  We don't know why and we're quite sure it is not necessary to know.




Ramallah, West Bank

Palestinians climb over a section of the Israeli barrier wall in an attempt to attend the second Friday prayers of Ramadan in Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque

Photograph: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters

So long as there are walls, humans will continue climbing over them.  It's in our nature and the politics be damned.


Don't worry, little dogie.  You appear to have a strong future in American politics.


Washington, US

The Senate held hearings for three days without a shred of content to any of it and they're still chasing the bubble.  As John McCain advised, "Chasing bubbles doesn't accomplish much but it pays well."



Real men don't play golf.


Moscow, Russia

Golf offers nothing except boredom, overweight people, and a future of sexual assistance from chemical aids but Putin remains a spry chap although he usually looks better than at this moment.  He's not a physically large man so participating in a hockey fight may not have been his best choice but his size may mean better speed and agility ... which also do not seem to serve him so well in this particular moment.

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