Today was Victory Day for Russia and other former Soviet nations, the 62nd anniversary of the victory over the Nazis in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (as World War II is known here).
There were parades and concerts -- and in Kharkiv, a magnificent fireworks display. Serge and I went; it was on Freedom Square, just a five-minute walk from our apartment building.
The fireworks were supposed to begin at 10 p.m. They were about a half-hour late -- but well worth the wait. It was the most spectacular show I'd seen -- better than Fourth of July fireworks over Town Lake in Austin or an Innsbrook in Richmond.
The fireworks started low on the ground, near the Lenin statue -- and I thought, "OK, that's quaint." But then they rose higher and higher -- they could've shot down a couple of planes! -- and ended with a wild finale of colorful bursts.
Of course, pictures -- not words -- are needed to convey fireworks. But I want to present the pictures in a different way than usual.
I recently learned about a site called Slideshare that makes it easy to upload a PowerPoint presentation and then share it with other people. One way to share the file is to embed a link in a Web page (as YouTube lets you do). This interests me a lot, because journalists -- especially citizen journalists -- might be able to use this tool for presenting news photos.
So, with that explanation, here is my slideshow of the fireworks display:
Nice photos!!!!
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