What's going on here?

New Mexico 'zia'
Originally uploaded by sixes & sevens

Anyone who's been watching my flickr site lately can't have missed the proliferation of license plate mug shots going up nearly every weekend. I admit that to all but a handful of fellow plate collectors and those with a slightly off-kilter set of interests, it must be pretty tedious work clicking through them all.

Well, it's a multi-fold exercise for me: Mastering the 'art' of license plate photography and managing photos on flickr (okay, I pretty much have these down already); creating a visual inventory of my collection, one against which I can judge those things I'm offered or find on eBay; sharing what I know about the license plates I'm illustrating; scaring up some of the types I'm missing from other collectors; and probably a thing or two I can't remember right now.

The only down side so far has been the disorder that comes of pulling all my plates out of hiding. They don't seem to get back quite the same way. Or at all.

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[lipcan3]

Looking forward to the 1956 Mass plates!