A busy relaxed day

These are the last days in Beijing and things intensify even more.

Today was a visit to a very beautiful 28-year-old woman who said:

“When I am full of confidence and creativity, I feel I am the most beautiful inside.
When I keep myself as natural and simple as I can, I feel the most beautiful outside”

To make the portrait we went to a park.
Surprisingly, Zhang Yan positioned herself almost fully behind a tree, hiding most of her face.
That made the portrait exciting and interesting.

Next she wanted a picture of the team.



We had a relaxed lunch in a fabulous Chinese restaurant.
People put their coats on the backs of their chairs.
Next, girls come with cotton covers that are placed over the coats.
This is to avoid that anybody from behind can steal from the pockets.
Also plastic bags were made available.
To put the mobile phone in so that it might not be damaged by food.

It was a short lunch because the next appointment was waiting.
Hurrying back by modern subway to the couple of yesterday.
The 35-year-old Wu Chun Yan and her 23-year-old boyfriend.
Yesterday the light had been bad and to be sure to have a great of picture of them a new session was held in the sunshine.


Again, Wu Chun Yan was so hard to control.
Not following the instructions and acting like a little naughty disobedient schoolgirl.



Quickly a taxi ride to the laboratory to pick up developed films and their contact sheets.
Each time a very exciting moment to see results.

Another taxi back to the hotel where the national Chinese TV-crew was waiting to do the official interview.
For this a location was arranged in a popular cafeteria and another taxi transported the busy photographer there together with the director Andrey Zhu.
A lengthy interview of over 2 hours digging deep into the motivation of creating and performing the project “The most beautiful people in the world”.

Next, Zhang Wei arrived.
Better known as Bobby.
The 19-year-old waiter in a coffee shop.
He had been repeatedly calling saying he wanted to see the contact sheets.
It became so annoying that the team decided to grant him an appointment.
To see if we could keep for him the experience of participating in the project beautiful.
He wanted to see the pictures because he had this deep fear he did not look well.
After some conversation we showed him the contact sheet and he agreed the portrait was OK.
The national Chinese TV-crew smartly filmed the whole encounter to have more interesting material for their lengthy documentary.



Next stop was dinner with friends in a restaurant meeting a German journalist discussing why there was still American Army presence in Europe.
We wondered how Americans would feel if there were army camps of Europeans on American soil.

Another activity now is to organize the party on Tuesday night.
Many people involved in the project will get together the night before departure to Los Angeles.
To celebrate a most successful and wonderful time in China.

This may sound like a busy day that is not even ended yet writing this posting and more e-mails to reply to.
But it doesn’t feel like a hectic day at all.
Nor is there any feeling of being tired.
Everything is so exciting and wonderful, that one is carried by wings powered by fabulous energy.









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