Friday Faces 21 – Cuban cigar chewing woman. ( it had to be done !)
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This is especially for my son who wrote in an email – “If there’s not a picture of an old woman puffing a cigar I’ll be disappointed!” This will have to do !
I know it’s TERRIBLY touristy and yes I did have to pay her to get the photo.. the princely sum of 1 CUC or about 65p. Well worth it I say!
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I love this! The colors and the mood and the request of your son! Bravo~ ~
I was determined and so was she vastly.. 😉
It’s a great photo! You should put it on the canvas enlargements they can make now and sell it! Really!
Thnaks Kathyrn but the resolution is not good enough on this one..
It sure looks like it to me!
She’s wonderful!
Isn’t she just Elena
Wonderful shot of a wonderful character (I mean ‘character’ in the best possible way!)
She was indeed a character John B
Ahh, those Cuban women who only dress in national costume to get the tourists to take photos (then cling onto men’s arms until they have no choice but to hand over a CUC!)
One question, has EVERYbody been to Cuba in the last few weeks?! 🙂
Yep those are the ones !! haha I note that you have just been too 😀
Flew out on 29th April, and back on 10th May! Wouldn’t you believe it! 😀
I went on the 2nd May and back on the 14th( 4 solid hours of turbulence on the way back.. I kid you not ! ) 😀
Not good! :-S
Great!
Thanks MM
Fantastic. I thought it was a painting at first.
Ohh I like that you thought that Rosie
It has such beuatiful texture
Great capture Helen. One well worth the expense! 🙂
wasn’t it just David.. I’d like to have had a little more time to set the camera up for the glaring light but I’m happy enough with it.
Excellent shots – but not my choice for a date!!
Indeed not Louis you’d do well to steer clear!
The best cigars are rolled on a woman’s thigh……(or so Im told)….
Im rather glad this lady is just working ‘front of house’ as I don’t think I’d ever fantasise about lighting up a stogie again.
(Just fantasies these days……my last cigar was in the bar of Raffles in Singapore…..I thought that was the perfect ‘Final Cigar’…)
Nice shot…..
Couldn’t you just run off without paying?…She’d never have caught you, her lungs must have been totally kyboshed.
Oh she wasn’t smoking it Stuart just chewing on it 😀
Ha! Terrific portrait, Helen. I like the story that goes with it!
Thanks Karen.. the story makes it somehow.
Wow, now that’s a woman not to mess with. A powerful portrait.
The “tourist” women as I call them, were not to be messed with !
She certainly looks like she means business! Complex, hard…
Oh yes… all of those things I think Scilla !
Did you need to spend many CUCs Helen. It can mount up for a photographer!
Hello Helen, the picture is awesome! I am from germany and I was in cuba too, it was in 2009 and I saw this women in Havana 🙂 but I didn´t took a photo from them, there were so much peaple and made photos. I want to ask you, can I use it for making a cocktail card for a friend, who´s having a cocktail bar in Havana-Style. I´m looking for hours for a “Cigar Lady” like this and she´s the first I like 🙂
I´m looking forward to hearing from you soon. Lg Nicole
Hi Nicole.. I am fine about you using it.. but please credit me with it by including my name Helen Cherry somewhere on the card.
Hello Helen, can you tell me where I can find this painting to purchase it?
Hi anonymous.. are you asking about the head shot or the full body shot.. By the way these are in fact photographs not paintings 🙂