Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After some digging, I found that my first email posting of Friday Flowers was on 8/13/2004. I've posted a flower for every Friday since then, never missed, even the week I had knee surgery. I usually post them on Thursday in the States as I have friends and my Sister-in-law in Japan and Asia, and it's Friday there. When I started, I knew next to nothing about flowers, but luckily, this town has many. My former neighbor Adreen was a master gardener, and the little dell next to my building at work was a haven for wildflowers. Now retired, I don't range very far, but Kathy has taken up flower gardening after inheriting a mature plot at our new to us house, so, lucky me. The aim is more about portraits of flowers rather than just images. Flowers are accommodating and much nicer than people in that regard. Most important to me has been the light, the whole point. This week, at the height of a brutal summer, we're short of blooms but heavy on light. That led me to do something I've never done before and repeat a flower. For a second week, Kathy's desert rose, a sturdy and beautiful bloom, in a shaft of sunlight at midday. https://sonc.com/look/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DSC5013web.jpg Sony A7r4, Sony FE 20-70G @ 66mm, 1/1000, f4, ISO 640 Older FF: https://www.sonc.com/friday/index.html More FF: https://sonc.com/look/?cat=4 Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA