Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Thanks for the explanation. Pumpkins are not really big over here, although the supermarkets etc. would like them to be so they can make more money. We just tend to cut them into lanterns, I don?t know anyone who has them to eat. Gerry > On 18 Oct 2015, at 20:20, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > It looked to me that the person who was in charge of the flowers in these > sidewalk tree boxes decided to be a big fat pumpkin in their arrangement as > part of the thing. I think the flowers were arranged around the pumpkin and > not the pumpkin dropped in afterwards. That's just my guess. One too big to > be easily stolen as that's why more don't put pumpkins in their sidewalk > flower patches. > So I've never seen quite this treatment before which is I I clicked a few > of > it with my new 35mm lens. I think the colors all worked maybe because of > the fact that they didn't work. A popular flower concept it think. "if it > doesn't work it works". > In the past I'd seen flowers worked in with pumpkins in high end store > windows on the east side of Manhattan here. This was a working mans street > version of such a combination. Free for the public to walk by and tell > their > dogs to not pee on. > > On 10/18/15 12:53 PM, "Gerry Walden" <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote: > >> I like this Mark although the pumpkin is a bit incongruous. Was it growing >> there, or had it been placed there? >> >> Gerry >> >>> On 18 Oct 2015, at 17:11, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/151015_115359.jpg.h >>>> tml >>> < >>> 151015_115359 >>> 10/15/15, 11:53:59 AM, Flowers with pumpkin on the Upper West Side, NIKON >>> D700, AF-S 35mm f/1.8G ED @ 1/160 s at f/8.0 @ iso 400 >>> >>> Catch it while you can or see it later. I managed to catch the LUG >>> gallery >>> with the workers on a coffee break and uploaded a flower shot I grabbed a >>> few days ago. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> Photographer >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information