Love 04/05- 04/11 (Mel)

I had this idea to get a picture of people in love during the weekend but Chinese couples are kind of prude and they do not enjoy public affection so I went with an inanimate object

There is a tradition in which couples buy a lock, engrave their names on them and then hang them on a special place and throw the key away. Supposedly, this will lock their love and make them stay together forever

For this one I did selective Sepia. The edges are not so well defined but for some reason I uploaded the wrong file to flickr


This one is the complete chain of locks


I thought this was a Chinese thing because I had never seen such a thing before but Google showed me that I was wrong. Apparently is a very common tradition everywhere and there is even a town in Nevada called 'Lovelock'. (More info and pictures from around the world here)

(I hope that you guys don't mind that I added my own blogger account to the site . it's just a lot more continent for me to post from my own account considering that I need to bypass the firewall)