two toddler bandits - Peoplephotography by worldcapture Week #29

Those russian children having their fun at the sling-o-rogein camp. I'd appreciate your associations, what do you see in this picture? Actually, they are not digging the pit to find a treasure (the ditch was created to bury waste and household garbage, which will remain by the end of the day).

To me, the boy on the left looks like a real bandit (the missing baby tooth in his mouth just solidifies this impression!), accordingly, his companion on the right looks like a typical "assistant to the villain". Which makes me lol every time I look at the pic.

PS. Captured this scene at the sling-o-rogein a few years ago, somewhere in the Karelian forests, near St.Petersburg, Russia. Check here fore more pics from that day.

Фотографировать детей я обожаю, и кстати фокусное расстояние моего всегдашнего полтинника прекрасно подходит к этой задаче. Лица взрослых это совсем другое дело, там всё вызрело, потёрлось о жизнь и сформировалось, и тоже очень интересно, а дети... дети совсем другое дело. Это неубитая креативность, свобода, беззаботное веселье, эмоции в полный рост, которые не надо зажимать и прятать ("потому что не принято в приличном обществе"), неуёмный смех.

Plus some more shots from the day:

Little helpers are being grown! Good job done makes you happy, isnt it? Children copy everything the grown-ups do, so they better copy some good shit, than bad. Right?

'crossing the abyss thru a rope bridge' challenge -- completed successfully.

the rogein part itself.

"Better the speech when the belly is fed". Well, this is the phase after a good dinner, when nobody wants to chat; all want just to be the seals, just lay lazily on the ground and do nothing!

some happy parents - best parents in the world, I guess.