Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> > Natchitoches, Louisiana > 1714 > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >