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There need be no question in your mind about the market for good flower photography. One of the big slide film distributors has found flower fanciers the most consistent buy ers of all among slide collectors, even though the pictures offered are strictly of specimen flowers. These cannot possibly have the same appeal as pictures of flowers grown by the buyer in his own soil. The only flower 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 projected. A close-up of a lovely flower on a screen is a sight to make anyone, flower lover or not, gasp at its beauty.

Your florist is a good man for you to know for other reasons than his ability to put you in touch with your local flower fanciers. He can teach you a lot about flowers, he can lend you fine specimens to photograph, and he can display your photography in his shop, which is wonderful advertising for you.

That is just one of the new versions of old opportunities which have been opened by the stereo camera. Another very important one lies in the coverage of weddings. Procedure here is the same as in ordinary black-and-white wedding coverage, with the added novelty appeal which stereo packs. Flower fanciers (see Chapter 13) are obvious prospects when the gardens are in bloom.