And my favorite photos from last week were...

Granted I don't live in the UK, but I can appreciate European football every now and again...

Perhaps especially moreso when a game winning victory results in such fantastic images. These photos originate from a Manchester United victory over Manchester City last week where (as some of you across the pond might be aware), midfielder Paul Scholes scored a final goal to clinch the game for United...

...Ultimately resulting in a victory 'embrace' from team captain Gary Neville... and a little celebratory meeting of the minds as a mutual reward .

Judging from the ensuing mob frenzy that followed 'the kiss' (and uh... the apparently interesting hand position from this final shot), I'd say not a bad day to be a hot ginger who's just put his team over the top in a dramatic fashion. Not bad at all ...

Athenian Beauty

It's been almost 2,000 years since Greek civilization was viewed as the pinnacle of humanity's achievement...

And even still, in spite of the current economic issues that once great nation is undergoing, there are still some amongst them that manage to stand tall... And quite strikingly as well I might add... Sort of in a sense of ancient artistic aestheticism meets modern-day photographic immortalization...

And what better way to immortalize modern-day aesthetic Greek symmetry than to employ the help of a perfectly chiseled 22 year-old Athenian beauty by the name of Steve...

Graceful, stunning, and dare I say perhaps giving ancient Greco slabs of marble a run for their money? Well... maybe I won't go that far...

...But Steve certainly makes a decent case for photography being a spiritual successor to sculpting. And honestly considering the explosion of creativity currently underway, I for one keenly prefer the latter artform ... Just Beautiful.