Pleurer
Softly the silent tears of the faerie cascaded down her cheeks in rivulets before dropping onto the leaf of a rose. Here they pooled until they formed three droplets of different sizes.
The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 22nd of July is "three droplets", where three droplets should be captured in the photo – no more and no less. For me, this was much harder than it sounds, for in order to create these three droplets on the back of a fallen rose leaf, I had to spray it with water from a spray bottle. Then I used the tip of a tissue to wipe away all the little droplets until I was left with only three. It was only after I was chatting to a friend on the telephone just after I had taken the photograph that she suggested I should have used an eye dropper to create the droplets! Now why didn’t I think of that? I must confess that I don’t have a pipette or eye dropper in the house, but I could have gone up to the high street pharmacy and bought one! Oh well!
I’m still happy with the outcome using my Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) Art Nouveau calling card tray from the first decade of the Twentieth Century. It features a beautiful and sinuous woman standing over it, and it is her face and shoulders that feature in this image. I hope that my efforts were worth it, that you like my image for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) was originally called Metallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizer and was opened as a metal repairing workshop. Through mergers and acquisitions, by 1900 they were the world's largest producer and exporter of household metalware, mainly in the Jugendstil, or Art Nouveau style, designed in the WMF Art Studio under Albert Mayer, sculptor and designer, who was director from 1884 to 1914. In 1880 after Metallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizer merged with another German company, it was renamed as the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik. WMF acquired the Polish metalware factory Plewkiewicz in Warsaw in 1886, which then became a subsidiary of WMF around 1900. During this period, the WMF employed over three and a half thousand people. In 1890 they acquired the Kunstanstalt für Galvanoplastik München, which specialized in electrotyping and electroforming of statues and statuettes for buildings, fountains, tombstones, and gardens; this became the Abteilung für Galvanoplastik (Galvanoplastic Division) of WMF. In 1900, WMF acquired Albert Köhler's famous Austrian metalwork company AK & CIE, who produced and distributed WMF items under their mark to the Austro-Hungarian market until about 1914. WMF purchased Orivit AG, a company known for its Jugendstil pewter in 1905, followed a year later by the purchase of the Orion Kunstgewerbliche Metallwarenfabrik, another German metalware company. WMF continued to use the goods from the acquired companies on their own markets, and conversely, they produced and distributed their objects under their acquired companies brands. WMF still exists to this day, and produces mostly stylised cutlery.
Pleurer
Softly the silent tears of the faerie cascaded down her cheeks in rivulets before dropping onto the leaf of a rose. Here they pooled until they formed three droplets of different sizes.
The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 22nd of July is "three droplets", where three droplets should be captured in the photo – no more and no less. For me, this was much harder than it sounds, for in order to create these three droplets on the back of a fallen rose leaf, I had to spray it with water from a spray bottle. Then I used the tip of a tissue to wipe away all the little droplets until I was left with only three. It was only after I was chatting to a friend on the telephone just after I had taken the photograph that she suggested I should have used an eye dropper to create the droplets! Now why didn’t I think of that? I must confess that I don’t have a pipette or eye dropper in the house, but I could have gone up to the high street pharmacy and bought one! Oh well!
I’m still happy with the outcome using my Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) Art Nouveau calling card tray from the first decade of the Twentieth Century. It features a beautiful and sinuous woman standing over it, and it is her face and shoulders that feature in this image. I hope that my efforts were worth it, that you like my image for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) was originally called Metallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizer and was opened as a metal repairing workshop. Through mergers and acquisitions, by 1900 they were the world's largest producer and exporter of household metalware, mainly in the Jugendstil, or Art Nouveau style, designed in the WMF Art Studio under Albert Mayer, sculptor and designer, who was director from 1884 to 1914. In 1880 after Metallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizer merged with another German company, it was renamed as the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik. WMF acquired the Polish metalware factory Plewkiewicz in Warsaw in 1886, which then became a subsidiary of WMF around 1900. During this period, the WMF employed over three and a half thousand people. In 1890 they acquired the Kunstanstalt für Galvanoplastik München, which specialized in electrotyping and electroforming of statues and statuettes for buildings, fountains, tombstones, and gardens; this became the Abteilung für Galvanoplastik (Galvanoplastic Division) of WMF. In 1900, WMF acquired Albert Köhler's famous Austrian metalwork company AK & CIE, who produced and distributed WMF items under their mark to the Austro-Hungarian market until about 1914. WMF purchased Orivit AG, a company known for its Jugendstil pewter in 1905, followed a year later by the purchase of the Orion Kunstgewerbliche Metallwarenfabrik, another German metalware company. WMF continued to use the goods from the acquired companies on their own markets, and conversely, they produced and distributed their objects under their acquired companies brands. WMF still exists to this day, and produces mostly stylised cutlery.