Firstly my comment was made a long time before the reports you refer to and secondly reports of Russian soldiers in isolated parts of pro- Russian Ukraine are hardly an invasion but are certainly evidence of Putin putting the frighteners on Ukraine.

Your post was a day before mine; you don’t think the Russians were in country then?

Yes, ha ha.
The difference between the two is that the Monty Python video is, um, between two consenting adults whilst the other was an unconsented criminal assault.

Oddly this measure was supported by one of the Philippines largest makers of firearms, Armscor which started as a backyard garage operation.

Wouldn’t that just be Armscor protecting their own business from the more amateur rivals who might be driven out by the requirement to obtain a licence?

As Trumper says – too dark. But if there is an additional auxiliary lens fitted as well then that could have fooled the idiot proof exposure computer into making the image darker.
Use your image manipulator (Photoshop or similar) to lighten the image, although this will have a knock on effect in the shadows. There is no ‘good’ high light visible in any of the displayed images, so I suspect that you may have already darkened them (unless the auxiliary lens was not compensated for when the picture was taken) for effect.
Did you use flash? If you have no choice you could get a bit of A4 white card (or stiffened paper) and bounce light in to display the water droplets in a better light. Silver foil can also be used, but is a lot shinier and the effect might be spoiled by the harder reflections and pinpoint high light created.

Alternatively move on to something else a bit more challenging- can I suggest whiskers on kittens…?;o)

(Bits added after auxiliary lens info provided by Linc-y…)

It wasn’t just the soft right that he enticed. Others found him to be a man they could work with and he was happy to accommodate them by not bringing socialism into his politics.

Strange that the Tories jumped into bed with the Libs when, of the big three, they were the left wing of British main stream politics over the last decade and a half…

Where – Sochi
Why – winter olympics
More why – the paraolympics
Additional whys – because it is taking place in part of Russia, just 200 miles from where troops have seized control of the Crimea. And it would be a blow against Putin and his strong arm bullying.

Oh. Just realised I hadn’t fully filled out the questions.

Sorry.

Sorted now.

Snafu,

I can’t believe that you’re hanging your Great Leader out to dry. There’s hope for you yet.

Sorry to disappoint you but, in the words of that still alive though obviously down on his luck butter salesman… I am an anarchist. ;o)
Never met a politician whose wonderful ideas couldn’t be improved on by standing him/her up against a wall with a row of armed troops lined up ready to fire their rifles. Perfect.

To me Blair was Bliar, whose word was not to be trusted, who if he proposed one thing then the chances were that it was better for everybody concerned to do the opposite, who needed to be arrested for war-crimes at the time and still does.
It’s been a long time since one leader took Britons into so many wars in such a short time – a lovely epitaph for his gravestone, I suppose, one record he must be proud of.
He brought competition and rivalry into the NHS where it has no business to be, and his new followers from the right were encouraged to set themselves up in opposition to state run monopolies and rake off millions when a simple management rotation might have sufficed. The socialist ideal of a redistribution of wealth did take place, but in reverse – not for those who needed it.