Photo by Glenn Young My friend Glenn Young sent me this photo which he took when he was in Shanghai China recently.
The store's name is "Paris" and it's a Bridal Consulting business! Apparently the bridal consultants name their businesses after locations in Europe! He said a store down the street which also offered Bridal Consulting services is named "Rome." I find that interesting!
Planning a wedding must be a big business in China if there are several stores on the same street in Shanghai offering the service. From the photo, you can see that flushmount wedding albums are just as popular there as they are here in the USA.
I met Glenn on a flight from Chattanooga Tennessee to Chicago on my way home from photographing the wedding of guitarist Doyle Dyke's daughter Holli a couple of years ago. We had a long delay in our flight and he was sitting next to me at the airport. We struck up a conversation and I found out that Glenn was a former wedding photographer back in the film days! Well, we hit it off and spent hours talking about photography.
Glenn is known as the "King of Bamboo" (I think his daughter calls him that) since he sells bamboo products, including flooring and also bamboo cloth for clothing! Yes, bamboo can be made into clothing! I don't know of anyone who knows more about bamboo than Glenn! He travels to Asia constantly for his business. He saw this store and took a photo of it so that I could see how things are done in China. Cool! Be sure to click on the photo to take a closer look. In fact if you zoom in by clicking on the image, stare at space between the huge string of pearls and the wall's edge on the left side of the photo... then move the image up and down several times quickly with your mouse. Keep staring at the space between the pearls and the wall while you move the image up and down fast. You'll swear those pearls are moving in and out! An optical illusion, of course!
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