'Heavy Duty Break for the Heavy Equipment Operator'

This heavy equipment operator sprawls on the seat and controls of his

mammoth skip loader/bull dozer as he takes a break in near 40 C /101

F. heat after the day's work is done and during hours until his machine

can be hauled away. Your ratings, critiques and observations are

invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically, or wish

to make a remark, please submit a helpful and constructive comment;

please share your photographic knowledge to help improve my

photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

There is a Russian proverb - the work is not a wolf in the forest will not run away :-))

I very much love Russian proverbs.

Nikita Khrushchev himself often spoke through the use of proverbs to make points, often confounding interpreters, as many proverbs (unlike this one) just will not translate.

Americans have a saying about the success or lack of success of an idea 'That dog won't hunt'.  Hunters frequently are accompanied by dogs which point to game birds, which hunters shoot, then they 'retrieve' the shot bird, hence the term 'retrievers'.  A dog who won't do that work 'won't hunt'.

Hence a 'dog who won't hunt' is by logical extension also an 'idea that won't work' but for the less sophisticated interpreter/translator the concept just confounds and communication stops when such an expression is used.

It's a wonderful world to have such diversity, and now we have new computer translation from Goggle.com and also PROMPT, but still such phrases and proverbs can confound.

This man actually was a very good worker; he was done for the day with this machine and waiting for it to be hauled away - waiting a very long time.  I watched him work through my living room window (this shot is from my living room, why work for my photos?) and his skills were superb.

And he and the unskilled crew worked in the worst heat.  When hard work was called for, they did work very hard which astonished for me (I think they worked for the City of Kyiv which earns the City government high marks from me, as this street had its side 'cave in', and they repaired it wonderfully . . . . far better than originally . . . . . or ever.

(This is one of those photos I like very much and was astonished it got any low rates at all.)

john

John (Crosley)

Here is an American proverb carried for the ages through my family:  'When I see work, I am like a wolf in the forest, and I will run away.'

;~))

john

John (Crosley)