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Flower Tattoo: In festivals, Scotland has one of the finest in all Europe, the late-summer Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama. I cannot exaggerate the thrilling nature of one of its features, the evening Tattoo in the court before the Castle. If you can see and hear those Highlanders, in their hundreds, performing their evolutions with their massed bagpipes and drums and not go all goosebumps you "have no.
Scoland in you," but you have phenomenal powers of resistance to romance. In the Tattoo you'll also see over a hundred Highlanders doing Highland dances together, you'll hear The King's Own Scottish Borderers pipe "Hielan Laddie" and "Reel o' Tulloch," and you'll watch sixty East Indians of the Brigade of Gurkhas doing their featured pipes-and-drums performance. There are auditorium events of the first caliber in connection with the Festival, but the hilltop Tattoo is the best of all worth crossing all the Seven Seas to witness.There need be no question in your mind about the market for good flower tattoo photography. One of the big slide film distributors has found flower tattoo fanciers the most consistent buy ers of all among slide collectors, even though the pictures offered are strictly of specimen flower tattoos. These cannot possibly have the same appeal as pictures of flower tattoos grown by the buyer in his own soil. The only flower tattoo fancier who is not an eager prospect for pictures of his blooms is one who has never seen a color slide transparency of a beautiful flower tattoo projected. A close-up of a lovely flower tattoo on a screen is a sight to make anyone, flower tattoo lover or not, gasp at its beauty. See Also Flower Garden:You might think that cutting fresh flowers both for friends and for the homefront would quickly deplete our flower garden. Not so. Rather than denude various parts of our permanent flower garden to fill a vase, my wife and I have included an old Victorian idea in our garden plan: a cutting garden. We grow an abundance of annuals for color, plus a few choice perennials, all specifically grown for bouquets.With this equipment, you will be able to produce those startling close-up pictures which, when enlarged by projection on a screen, seem to magnify the original beauty of the flowers. And these are the pictures which your clients cannot duplicate with their own cameras. They are the shots which will establish you as a flower photography specialist. The other pictures you have occasion to shoot, those showing garden layouts and pleasant clumps and clusters and masses of flowering plants, will take care The best sources of customers for your flower photography are the garden clubs and the flower clubs in your community. If you don't know the flower clubs, get in touch with a florist for the information you need. On The Other Hand See Flower Pictures:There are two reasons why flower photography is a bit difficult for the amateur gardener to do himself. The first is that, to be truly effective, flower pictures must be in color, which due to its short exposure latitude demands special care in lighting. Second, for fully exploiting the beauty of flowers a good many of the pictures should be extreme close-ups which require special equipment and careful calculation of exposure factors.Thus, the magician who can capture the beauty of prized blossoms at their peak and give the flower fancier that beauty to enjoy and display forever, can be the amateur gardener's best friend. This magic is not easily wrought, which is fortunate for you if you want to earn money taking flower pictures. |
