[Leica] Another "American Landscape"

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Sonny showed:
Subject: [Leica] Another "American Landscape"
> http://www.sonc.com/american_landscape_6.htm
>The series is  here:
> http://www.sonc.com/american_landscape/index.htm<<,

Sonny this is building into a powerful series of photographs of how a 
country appreciates the flag and it's enormous meaning to the people.

So far you're building a powerful base for a book sometime down the line. 
It's the variations and certainly the emotion arousal of what this last one 
represents. Not meaning to have a bunch of these, but this one is so strong 
and the angle so unique, it would be very difficult to find a better one. 
However that doesn't mean pass any because you never know when a better 
moment comes along...... that's what editing is all about when you have a 
couple of hundred others of this calibre.  You will, stay with it!

Like Kyle in finding his publisher, as soon as you have a couple dozen all 
equal to and or stronger, I'd make up prints, a book outline and have a go 
at finding a publisher.

By the same token this isn't a subject you're going to hop out the door and 
find them a dime a dozen.... you might..... but only one or two will have 
the impact of the set to this point.  But without question, I'd become a 
serious hunter and spend as much of your free time as possible seeking and 
searching for interesting photographic situations as you have here.

The series so far covers a gamut of emotions and interest, but it's the 
strong feelings they bring to a viewer.

Hang tight with it Sonny I have no doubts you've a winner if you stay with 
it because it's a story telling example illustrating how a country shows 
it's flag.

ted