"'Statuary' With Sympathetic Eyes"

This human statue has extremely sympathic eyes beneath the

greasepaint and gaudy costume, and is well worth a 'large' look (In my

opinion). Scene: Kyiv, Ukraine, recently. Your ratings, critiques and

observations are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly, very

critically or just wish to make a remark, please post a helpful and

constructive comment; please share your photographic knowledge to

help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! John

Yes, the statue's eyes are 'sympathetic', not as spelled in the request for critique.  (there is no editing of the request for critique).

My apologies.

john

John (Crosley)

I felt some raters and many viewers did not click on this photo to see it full size, especially those rating it low.

For me it is a very powerful photo, and I fully feel you understand this photo.

This is not a photo I desire to take or to publish or post here, but it has values I just could not overlook, so it gets posted.

Quality means more than what I 'want' or 'envision'.

This has an enduring 'quality' to it that I just cannot escape.

It seems you agree.

(and I haven't looked at your rate --I never do when I write a response)

Best wishes in the great heat and drought of summer 2010.

john

John (Crosley)

Thank you very much for the wishes of luck in the fight against the heat. I do not have air conditioning and my brain just melted from + 40 :-)))

Svetlana.

Oh my God, Ukraine is not made to exist with temperatures of 40+, and there is one more week with such temperatures or at least a half week more, then a 'cooling down' time.

I'm so sorry for your circumstance . . . . . I have not seen you or even know your age, so I hope that you are thin, as thin people tolerate heat a little better than the well insulated people such as 'yours truly'.

(me).

But fortunately I have air conditioning;I had it all my life, except for decades when I lived in Santa Cruz County, California near the cool Pacific Ocean with summer-time fog, often lasting from night through noon -- even all day many times.

Thus, then, for decades, no need for 'air conditioning except a very few days, surprisingly often only in late September and early October (highest temperature there shot up from summertime highs of 23 a day or less in June, July, and August, to a high one year in early October of 43 Celsius.  Nights almost always were cool and moist with dew on the grass . . . . an ideal climate with ocean views from living room through bedrooms.

I feel so strongly for your current suffering and hope only that you are surrounded by loved ones to ease the inconvenience of sweltering.

In three or four years of visiting Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine) regularly I never experienced such prolonged heat, and it is hotter and more sweltering there than Kyiv, generally.  This is a heat wave for the record books!

Wait until winter -- we may look back fondly to summer's heat!

john

John (Crosley)