Basket Making 3 by nathalie06

Photography • Portraits • posted on Jan 12, 2006

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Photographies made with my Nikon D70S and a Tamron lens 18-200 mm. Little postwork with Nik Color Effect Pro (filter "Classical Soft Focus") and framed with Photoshop 7 I'm so happy you like the first shots of this serie ! Thank you for your comments of yesterday !!!! It's true that her hands are deformed, she suffers from osteoarthritis, and it's accentuated still more because she is thin. She is also very small this pretty granny, she is like a little goblin. An adorable goblin ! The cutting of the strips is the most delicate stage, each one must been divided, and you cannot imagine at what a speed she works ! The little Grand Mother makes baskets since a very very a long time. If Iunderstood well (she don't speak english or another language, just Thai...) she has made that for all her life. To give you an idea, to make a large basket it takes her at least 2 days whole of work, given that it's also necessary to make dry the strips. And after she sells her baskets 50 baths ! what makes approximately 2 euros.... We are so far from our European wages ! In term of speed, we need twice more time to make a small flat basket. But we put all our love at it !!!! I've make you a collage of 4 pics, on the first 3, you'll see Katia working, and following the instructions of our sweet teacher. And the last shot has been made by Helen, another friend who was with us in the forest for some days. Then you see me, cuting my strips of bamboo. Every one has his own technique ! But we have all worked with our hands and feet ! I've made these shots with an exposure of 1/60 sec and a diaphragm of 5.6 - ISO 200. You'll see the progression of our baskets next days... Previous shot of this serie :

"Basket Making 2" If you want to see the photography of Snowscape post in GIANCARLO'S gallery today, just click here :

"Tender Curves" Sweet dreams my friends, Hugs, Nathalie, and always close to me, Giancarlo

Comments (18)

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kimariehere

5:32PM | Thu, 12 January 2006

how facinating this is!! i love seeing these shots wow i sure would like to try it what a remarkable craft..!! i used to live next door to an Indian woman who would make baskets as her great great grandmother would and feel bad i never learned!! awesome presentation!

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Cosme..D..Churruca

5:32PM | Thu, 12 January 2006

Two days... two Euros ! Life must be cheap in that part of the world. This series is super, go on please !

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marybelgium

5:43PM | Thu, 12 January 2006

super reportage ! beau collage ...on continue le voyage avec toi aussi !

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tibet2004uk

5:45PM | Thu, 12 January 2006

A very interesting serie indeed. Love to see this!

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xexon

6:11PM | Thu, 12 January 2006

I love it when a torch has been passed. Salute.

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DELMUR

6:23PM | Thu, 12 January 2006

belle serie ! nous 2 on devrait se faire "connaissance du monde"!! Mais c'est quoi de poster si tard! j'en peux plus!!!!!!

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maggiemai

7:57PM | Thu, 12 January 2006

A wonderful collage and series of photos! It is so amazing to see how much work and time goes into these baskets. It's too bad that they don't earn more for all of that work. Beautiful shots...thank you so much! :-)

cricounette

10:32PM | Thu, 12 January 2006

Quelles beaut tu nous prentes let ton reportage !! Delmur a raison vous pourriez tous les deux faire quelque chose de grandiose ! Bravo, je suis court de mots ... "V"

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kansas

10:46PM | Thu, 12 January 2006

A fascinating craft. Wonderful photos. Thanks so much for sharing these with us.

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zulaan

12:52AM | Fri, 13 January 2006

Encore... Encore... Encore... du re ;) bises

Valerie-Ducom

1:32AM | Fri, 13 January 2006

je veux aller lbassssssss... ah ah ah... comme toujours, tes photos sont un plaisir pour les yeux ;) superbe

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Laelia

8:10AM | Fri, 13 January 2006

J'ai en moire ton rit au retour de ton sour.. Tes images sont tout aussi ocatrices des sensations magnifiques que t'ont imprn.. C'est vrai avec JP, vous devriez faire une expo et/ou un recueil :D Biz

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Chaos911

10:01AM | Fri, 13 January 2006

wow, looks fantastic, excellently done!!!! :=)

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jcv2

10:06AM | Fri, 13 January 2006

Ha ha, Basket-making in a classroom - these could be instructional pictures in a book! :) Great to see you at work here instructed by the old lady! Fantastic collage, Nathalie!

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