49TH ANNUAL WORLD PRESS PHOTO CONTEST IMPRESSES...JUST ASK IVAN J.J., OUR SON!

Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly of Reuters won the World Press Photo of the Year 2005 premier award, which was exhibited at the World Press Photo contest this year. The stunning exhibit took place at the Africa Museum in Johannesburg. Ivan was captivated by the winning photo, which shows the emaciated fingers of a one-year-old child pressed against the lips of his mother at an emergency feeding clinic in Niger. A devastating swarm of locusts and the worst drought in decades left millions of people short of food in the African state. It was only one of a hundred or more photographs at the museum that left me hard-pressed in attempting to explain to our seven-year-old the ravages of nature and the lack of humaneness in war-torn areas of the world, resulting in death and destruction for humankind. Not an easy task...