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Jeremy Green “Flora” 12/2/23

After a long day of shooting executive portraits at a golf course, my assistant and I were exhausted and punchy. As we were driving home I noticed a thistle(?) standing up head and shoulders in a field, as if it was posing. We decided that we should do a portrait of it, like we had been doing all that day with guys in suits, only different. We set up a strobe and umbrella, and shot a Polaroid. We laughed and got kind of giddy out in the middle of this field. I tried to break rules of composition, but I’m not sure I succeeded in that. Fujichrome only made the sky more vibrant and beautiful, as I suspected it would, and it made me happy. It was so much more fun than the work we were paid to do that day. All dressed up with no place to go — until now.