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[vriad_lee]

this dog never puts her tongue back in her mouth. i asked the man who was walking her, 'is she old?' he said, 'yes, 10 years.' then i started to shoot her tongue, and when she got bored, turned and tried to walk away, the man stood in her way, and pushed her with his thighs, saying 'hey you go back there' - i felt embarrassed for him. so i guess if you want to be a street photographer, you should move to russia, yugoslavia, or china, where they actually push things into your camera, expecting nothing at all in return (ok, i know nothing about china or yugoslavia, it was a conjecture). i said, 'she's a kind dog, it just shows' (сразу видно, добрая собака), and touched her head, apologetically. then i left them, and thought: 'i wish poemtree met this dog instead.' because she would make a good story out of it, since that's exactly her sort of plot - sick, sad, with a huge potential for hidden pity. i planned to make this post lively, but after seven hours in the woods my legs hurt and i sound like a sad dog myself.

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[poemtree.livejournal.com]

hahaha!

had i met this dog instead though there would not have been photos. also you would have had to have trusted my writer's exaggeration of the dog and the dog's owner.

the dog looks like she is in pain.

[vriad-lee.livejournal.com]

healthy exaggeration is good for writing. and no, she wasn't in pain, it's about my choice of photos, i guess. she looked all happy and mellow (unlike her owner)

[welfy.livejournal.com]

You do find the most splendid dogs in Russia. The only other place I’ve seen so many dogs is Mexico. They just run wild everywhere. They don’t seem very friendly though, and they’re skin and bones. Your Russian dogs seem a lot fluffier, too.

In Costa Rica and Mexico, people love to ham it up for the camera…they’ll grab their kids and hold them close and they have such a fun time with it. Americans just get pissy if you try to photograph them, for the most part. Even my friends act like that. I’m the opposite…if I see a camera, I vie for attention and love being photographed (which is good because my boyfriend loves taking pictures of me, so it’s perfect). Maybe I should move to Russia, hehe.

[vriad-lee.livejournal.com]

everyone is talkibg about moving to russia, and noone does - in fact, everyone moves out, if anything! oh i am such a lier. i don't like to be photographed, usually. it takes an effort, i have to be inspired to get a good photo of myself.

[vriad-lee.livejournal.com]

fuck LIAR. i'm so tired of these misspellings

[julu.livejournal.com]

this post actually made me laugh out loud. also i was wondering, i got a wacom tablet for christmas and would you mind if i drew some of your photographs on the computer? maybe if i felt like some were pretty i'd post them on my journal; i'd link always back to you. what do you think? just that my imagination's sore lately and you always have pretty photographs, i always love them.

[vriad-lee.livejournal.com]

no-no, of course i don't mind. i'm stealing stuff form other people's journals all the time, anyway

[forever0ne.livejournal.com]

her eyes look like she's about to fall over.

[vriad-lee.livejournal.com]

she's not, actually!

[vriad-lee.livejournal.com]

no, in fact my reply to that should be: a good story always beats a photo.