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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.

To many a flower photographer, color films are the "last word"— particularly Kodachrome in miniature sizes, which affords both

The model agency should have composite photos of the models showing them in a number of different poses. Is there a sameness to the images or are there different facial expressions, body movements, and hand positions? Were the pictures taken by more than one photographer? Sometimes a model seems to come alive with one photographer and looks deadpan with anyone else. One clue to this fact is found when the model has only worked with one photographer. Admittedly this may have been to save money or because the community .was too small to have more than one photographer taking such portfolio pictures. However, it may also be a warning sign.