Lost Stamps

Digging back in 2015. Here stamps that got totally out of the selection. And no I´m making a clean-up of my data I kinda don´t want to lose all this.

Hyper-random

Sabes que los días te van a ir MUY bien cuando cada jornada has de ver éste cartel.

Spanish puns of words.

Photo-Up to the mountains

Not the most artistic thing nor the best quality (actually crappy one) but it respect some attention for this beautiful image coming from my homeland. These are my neighbor mountains these current days:

Dusk

Here sometimes the skies tend to burst in flames.

I seriously need a new camera! well...a new camera, a new graphic tablet, a new home...at least I already got a new computer and...DAMNIT ALREADY!

Family photo

When you realise that even erasers have a very familiar face and they have the same depressing grin as you usually see in northern countries (not only in Kaķisland).
The bear is just priceless and the cow even more.

Vulture session

Just some vulture references from my own shaft. They could come in hand some time:

"Fabulous!"

Finding the perfect storm

I keep finding, I keep finding...but not too much time remains for me, as the summer is about to end and with it the heavy storms as well. I will figure out another high place (but safe) to make a photo of the whole valley so my chances to get a nice shoot of the target increase. Yesterday it was very annoying to have the storm behind me all the time, behind the mountains and not in the valley (AGAIN! this is the third time!!):

Now salamanders

When you don´t get storms you get animals. These fellas appear when the weather is too hot!

Storm strip

No, the second photo is not the same place at daylight, between the first and last photo there´s only one sec of difference. Powerful lightning, heh?

Last night was very stormy.

Storm in the village

A GIF.

Hope in a few days a heavier storm comes. And hopefully I´ll catch some lighting while my camera is not processing the photos.

Cat stamps. EXTRA

I forgot this one. Which is, by the way, I consider it even one of the best! Sometimes the stare can be very emotional despite the first coldness you can get at first...

Cat Stamps. Bonus

These are the stamps that were discarded before the final delivery.

These ones are about the good faces that people put mostly often.

Latvia doesn´t have a very good appartment quality, and if a spanish says this (because Spain average houses are not precisely the best of the best) something goes fairly bad.

We have some harassment here!

This is a joke about the cats themselves: they are all around the streets, they are the main fauna (it´s much better than having rats).

More stalking and antipathy around!

Latvian Society stamps (Part 2)

Yes! Let´s carry on with this funny series mocking about latvian behaviour and society. Here come the next ones!

The first one is, probably, the stamp which has the deepest meaning of all them. The cat´s sentence has latvian and russian words referencing the mixing society (and persons) of latvian and russian population (remind that almost half of the population is russian origin). And another thing the stamp is referencing is the not very good service that Riga´s public transport offers which is...it can be sometimes very slow and unpredictable. Also, and most important, express the rudeness of a lot of people.

The next one is a mock about the main (and only) car trademark in the soviet ages whose cars where being marketed. So, in previous years you only saw Lada cars running on latvian roads. Similar as you only saw SEAT 600 in like most of the francoist years in Spain during Franco Regiment. The same, and with the same I mean that you could see some Renaults or Citroën aswell, so in Latvia you could see SAABs too.

Ok...the left image is very serious, just like most of the faces you see when you are walking around. Worst of all, this cat makes you jinx just with its staring.

The right image it´s a bit random, but not for that is less real...you can perceive some filtring occasionally.

The upper stamp talks about some persons (usually old ladies) who are watching the street from her window like if there was something wrong in there. Oh yeah, this happens everywhere...but here (I mean, in...in this country) is usual in young population too, oddly.

And the last one is about an old friend seen before. Remember the cat from "Such a lonely day" stamp? He´s back! and he has had another lonely day! So, damnit! Let´s forget the time and pities and let´s drink some typical alcoholic drinks! Here, it´s very popular the balsam, a drink which has an average alcohol level.

Latvian society Stamps (Part 1)

As the main tag is from another country is much better to write in some more "international" language. This is a series coming from my experience in another country (you will guess what country is as you are checking the work) about its society´s behaviour and one very interesting note I noted (I love redundancies)  in the urban lands from there: there were A LOT OF feral cats roaming in the streets. So I decided to make a serie relating the alley cats theme with some mocking society things.

Note: this has been made with only humorous prupourse, not to offend anyone. Don´t take it bad; and by the way, if I would make something similar about my country I could make TONS of quirky things that people usually do there.

So, let´s begin:

The first stamp, the one about the sad cat ("kaķis" is "cat" in latvian) is a pun about how Latvia has a sadly report for being a country with a high suicide rate, thus meaning that there are not precisely very few people in depressions or very unhappy with their lifes.

The second one it´s about how some (I mean, enough to attract the attention to me) persons are not very social (even antisocial) and prefer to hide in their own loneliness rather to...phew, rather to just show a nicer face!

These two stamps takes the same meaning: the shyness. There is shyness out there. And in big doses. Or selfishness, probably (then, we could find a reason why so much depression)!

The next pair are about other things. The first one is about how some neighbors are not very happy with strangers...and about the faces they make, you are not sure if they are angry with you or just they are acting normal, as they usually are. I have to say, however, that the meaning of the stamp I´m talking about ("You are in the wrong neighborhood Motherfu**r") fits MUCH more in Spain: all Latvia is rather safer than most of the cities of Spain; just an example: if you stay in the gipsy neighborhood(s) of Murcia (and that´s a city of only 400k inhabitants) for long time you will get surely some guys with the same faces as we see in the cats and saying basicaly the same (and you doing nothing, just staying there). And, yeah, it´s not racism because it´s a gipsy neighborhood (means that most of its population it´s gipsy, not all) but it´s the truth that you cannot go there safely.

The lower one it´s again about the depressions and sadness, holding hands with the loneliness.

There is another part coming. Tomorrow surely.