Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/22

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Subject: [Leica] What's with all these... FLOWERS
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:50:34 -0500
References: <CAF8hL-G6GnCa_LAS-Xm6JGAQ3ehoE9QTjiRv7dYZSxVS_PEOpQ@mail.gmail.com>

To answer your question, I don't know why everyone else shoots flowers. For
me it is the "chase."  I usually shoot either Thursday evening or Friday
morning the week I post.  I never use macro gear, and always shoot "in the
wild."  (I take that back, twice I shot inside because of weather.)

I started Friday Flowers on the Archivists list after I got an assignment
for Louisiana Life Magazine featuring Hodges Gardens. It was popular there,
so I started sharing with the Leica list, and soon others joined in.

For me it is more about the photography than the flowers; since I live in a
place where I can find them year-round, it makes for an easy assignment to
keep me shooting.

I have not missed a week since I started about six years ago, and only twice
have I posted from stock, and that was when I had knee replacement surgery.
The third week, I walked down the street to shoot some spider lilies.

Usually, I  shoot with prime lenses, mostly with a Summicron 35 on the M8,
but lately with a 40mm DA Pentax ltd lens. I wish it fit my M8.

I do shoot other subjects and try to post often, and I look at nearly every
picture posted here.

You can see back issues here:
<http://www.sonc.com/friday/index.html>
www.sonc.com/friday/index.html










On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Richard Man <richard at 
richardmanphoto.com>wrote:

> I know about the Friday flowers, but this is a Leica list, ne? And Leica
> generally don't do flowers right? Unless it's a Visoflex or R, or may be
> nowadays an S2. In any case, go challenge Jim or Lluis, don't let them
> monopolize the non-flower pics :-) I want to see Occupy Starbucks pictures!
>
> (spoken by the person who has not picked up a camera in 5 days due to
> having
> to catch up with work.... Soon... soon)
>
> --
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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