Catching People Unaware (Candid), in the header – Germany, then in Madrid…
Students’ joy in Madrid
Street dancing in Beijing
Beijing
Thursday’s Special: Pick a word in October – Y3
”Welcome to another Pick-a-Word Thursday’s Special. I hope that the choices I made for this month’s photo challenge will allow you a lot of liberty in interpretation.”
I always enjoy Paula’s (Lost in Translation) pick a word prompts – Here are my interpretations for this week!
gushing – lava in the header and Tännforsen below
aperture
frontier
triplets
tapered
SL-WEEK 36: Women
Sylvain Landry – Women. International Women’s Day.
In the header – The old and the new China.
Young Chinese girl of today
Rome – a connecting nun.
My mother, here 79 years old. Still hiking, still curiously looking forward to things…
A woman – not passé even if she is ageing.
The Impressive Cloisonné – An Intricate Work of Art
Cloisonné – copper and natural colours in splendid patterns. Cranes, lotus flowers, peonies, dragons and different trees are most popular.
Why not start with a 1.50 m. high urn, featured in the movie Oceans 11? The neat price tag: 70 000 euro.
In China this technique dates back to the 14th C, and on visiting the factory, we could follow the work from simple copper vase or other object, through painting the pattern lines, gluing the tiny copper linings, painting with natural colours and then burning 7 times in 1000 degrees – lastly three times polishing – to the final object ready for sale.
From tiny copper to finished vase
The glue is natural – even edible
The colours are also natural. We saw only women working here – takes small and steady hands
Tea sets are of course popular
Bracelets
Lovely vases
Some of my favourites were these tiny teapots with lovely patterns
If you have got some left over money, you can buy these two. The urns are more than 2 metres high and the price tag is: 300 000 euros – each. We were told that last year a Russian guy bought another two.
Leya 
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