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Subject: [Leica] Friday Flowers, why?
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Sun Aug 28 08:25:34 2005
References: <78.7a15c0e0.304304e1@aol.com>

Flowers are to hip, too too hip. Mapplethorpe was "hipper-than-though"
for some time (maybe still is?), and he shot flowers.  So there :-)

Scott

SonC@aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 8/26/2005 7:23:48 P.M.  Central Daylight Time, 
>ricc@mindspring.com writes:
>What I've gotten from  Sonny and Friday Flowers is an outlet. Did  
>Sonny start this?   Let's face it, flowers aren't the hippest of subjects 
>among "pro   
>photogs."
>
>----------------------------
>I started Friday flowers on  the archivists list some time back, and as I 
>found, lots of people like flowers,  especially on a Friday, and even more 
>so as 
>the gloom of winter comes.   
>
>Since that list is also an international one, I get responses from the  
>Southern Hemisphere during their winter too.
>
>Nice thing about living in  the South, I was able to find flowers every 
>week 
>the whole year.
>
>As far  as it not being hip, maybe, maybe not.  At least I get comment and 
>usually  700 to 1100 visits to my weekly offering.  The only subject that 
>comes  
>close to those numbers is cheerleaders.
>
>I usually go out before work on  Friday and "pick" them fresh on the way to 
>work.  I may have spotted them  at other times, but I like the morning 
>light.  
>
>http://www.sonc.com/friday/index.html
>
>Regards,  
>Sonny
>http://www.sonc.com
>Natchitoches, Louisiana
>Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
>?galit?, libert?, crawfish  
>
>  
>


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