Saturday 3rd Movember: Men and flowers

Who knows where these men are from. There's not a single jot of information printed on the back of the postcards, and no particular clues as to location on the fronts. What they seem to have in common, apart from a moustache, are the carefully-posed plants they chose at the photographer's studio to enhance their portrait. Perhaps they were trying to say something with flowers...

But wait a minute...

When you look closer at the painted backdrop on both photographs it becomes apparent that they were in fact taken in the SAME studio. That tree to the left in the first photograph is identical to the right-most tree in the second photograph. The painted balustrade is the same as well. Just a quick change of furniture, whip out a few plants and, voila!, we are transformed.

I like to think these two men worked together at their own little florist's shop, somewhere on a quiet street in Paris.