STORY in THREE PARTS... 3
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HAPPINESS IS...teaching someone, something new, no this is NOT father Christmas, he is Flemish actor, learning the art of glassblowing!
The red is a glass experiment
For quite some time we wanted to photograph glass being blown by an artisan.
I found Marcel Vlamynck, a master glassblower, and contacted him, he was agreeable and the appointment was made.
The earliest evidence of glassblowing comes from a collection of waste from a glass shop, including fragments of glass tubes, glass rods and tiny blown bottles, which was dumped in a ritual bath in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, dated from 37 to 4 BC.
The transformation of raw materials into glass takes place at around 1,320 °C (2,400 °F) the glass emits enough heat to appear almost white hot.
The glass is then left to "fine out" (allowing the bubbles to rise out of the mass), and then the working temperature is reduced in the furnace to around 1,090 °C (2,000 °F).
At this stage, the glass appears to be a bright orange color.
We enjoyed a whole afternoon, and of course we went home with a piece of glass Art work!
The bottom is hugged by a blackened old branch, very special.
For those who are always cold: THAT IS THE JOB!!! LOL
Hope your day is good, thanks for viewing, Magda, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
man, portrait, "natural light", colour, Brugge, Flanders, Marcel Vlamynck, artist, glassblower, art, horizontal, "Nikon D7200", "magda indigo"
STORY in THREE PARTS... 3
#AbFav_GLASS_
#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY
HAPPINESS IS...teaching someone, something new, no this is NOT father Christmas, he is Flemish actor, learning the art of glassblowing!
The red is a glass experiment
For quite some time we wanted to photograph glass being blown by an artisan.
I found Marcel Vlamynck, a master glassblower, and contacted him, he was agreeable and the appointment was made.
The earliest evidence of glassblowing comes from a collection of waste from a glass shop, including fragments of glass tubes, glass rods and tiny blown bottles, which was dumped in a ritual bath in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, dated from 37 to 4 BC.
The transformation of raw materials into glass takes place at around 1,320 °C (2,400 °F) the glass emits enough heat to appear almost white hot.
The glass is then left to "fine out" (allowing the bubbles to rise out of the mass), and then the working temperature is reduced in the furnace to around 1,090 °C (2,000 °F).
At this stage, the glass appears to be a bright orange color.
We enjoyed a whole afternoon, and of course we went home with a piece of glass Art work!
The bottom is hugged by a blackened old branch, very special.
For those who are always cold: THAT IS THE JOB!!! LOL
Hope your day is good, thanks for viewing, Magda, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
man, portrait, "natural light", colour, Brugge, Flanders, Marcel Vlamynck, artist, glassblower, art, horizontal, "Nikon D7200", "magda indigo"