VIENNA-Galina Toktalieva street photography showcase
About 120,000 people in colorful clothes took part in Vienna’s annual Rainbow Parade on Saturday to call for equal rights for gays, lesbians and transvestites. I must add that to be transvestite does not necessarily mean to be homosexual. Some transvestites are fascinated with women’s clothes only, and want to feel themselves, at least temporarily, [...]
“When I wish to find out how good or how wicked anyone is, or what are his thoughts at the moment, I fashion the expression of my face, accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my own mind or heart, as [...]
Once I met an old artist in the street, he was in his usual shabby jacket with fringes at the bottom, dragging heavy suitcase with sketches and looking thoughtful. When I asked him, what was going on, he replied: “It is always the same – too much of work and too little or nothing of [...]
May Demonstration It was traditional the 1 May demo and Day of the Work in Vienna yesterday, and to express their solidarity with social-democratic, communist and national minorities movements in the country thousands of people marched along streets of the city toward Parliament and City council, where chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, mayor Michael Häupl, trades-union leader [...]
Benevolent, you are welcome to visit my recent flash gallery created with Lightroom and Autoviewer. I am fond of Eckhart Tolle, look what he writes: “Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable” From “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle. He writes that all our suffering [...]


