[Leica] Friday Flowers SonC

[Don Dory]

Really wonderful presentation.

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 8:02 AM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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
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