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Happy Chinese New Year from Manchester Chinatown

February 14, 2010 10:40 pm

This afternoon I went out to take some photos for the City Guardian project, and on my way back I joined the happy crowds celebrating the Metal Tiger New Year in Chinatown. Rather than filming people I chose to film the confetti on the ground…

Julia Shuvalova

Julia Shuvalova is the author of Los Cuadernos de Julia blog. She is a historian, an author of several books, and a translator. She teaches Foreign Languages and Creative Writing and regularly speaks on the topics in History and Teaching for the Russian media. She lives and works in Moscow, Russia.

2 Comments

nomadcraftsetc
February 16, 2010 at 3:56 pm

How cool! What a great idea!

I think the confetti sort of looks as though you are looking at people celebrating but from outer space.

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Julie Delvaux
February 22, 2010 at 11:49 pm

Hi! I'm glad you thought that way, to me it was just an odd way of filming, but now you pointed this out, and I can see… you're right!

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