Picture the World

Here's an invitation to visit MSN PICTURES OF THE WEEK.
You can sign up to recieve weekly emails linking you to the site. I love looking through these each week. I find so many things I enjoy in the pictures---whether it is the angle, the subject matter, the irony, or surprise...I always find at least one of the pictures that really impacts me. At the very end of the slideshow you are invited to vote for one of the pictures. I take my vote really seriously; it's really interesting. This may seem simplistic, but I made the rule for myself that my vote will go to the picture that evoked the most emotion from me. If there is not specific emotion that over rides all other emotions, then I vote for the most artistic photo or most unusual. Once you vote, you are shown the rankings of the pictrures to that point. You kind of get to see how your vote impacted the group vote.

This is the photo I voted for this week. As soon as I saw it I had an emotional response. You'd have to be dead not to! Here's the story that goes with this amazing shot:

"Anthony Enso, 23, hugs his son Anthony Enso Jr. at a hospital...on Feb. 19, after the 1-year-old was rescued from the mudslides that buried the nearby village of Guinsaugan two days before."

What a redeeming moment in this for this little one and his father! What a loving moment.