New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-18

plate holder / arranged that machinery which gives
an exposure for only tho fash Of time. told my
group that was ready
| Lord cried out Mrs. Bennett impationuy, Hero
! I have ben so still I'm sh.'
pulled out the cover OF the plato; pressed the
sprIng snap-the thing was done.
with a busncss.llke AIR unscrewed tho camera and
| lifted the tripod
Tho whole company going to follow me into
The house. Just because l had a Photographic out
! III was | mover going no be aone again.
al guess wen Jest have look at It fore we go
bome said the woman who had wanted her cat taken
7 faced round as II were going to address public
meeting and indeed felt "a If twenty people might
constitute a public meeting. l told them there would
NOT and could not be anything TO SEQ until had
developed it, and very likely there wasn't anything
| 70 develop Could tell them when to come again
! No I could not. with difficulty kept myself from
advising them never to come again.
Al last escaped and shut myself in my room.
conld not lock the door, because there was no lock
| IN II sat down in a chair and leaned up against
/ the door Presently Maria tried 10 get In. renamed
oulet and silent and she went away
It was a long day before the night, and all through
tbe bours WAS filed with the keenest hope and the
keenest dread hope that there was something on that
| Mate and dread that therc was not could thinK
of nothing else. The boiled peas and tho huohieoerry
pie for dinner were like much chaif In my mouth
| 30 intense my anxiety
Maria hustled away the supper dishes at q
prodglous rate. Before It was really CARE heaNy
blankets were hung up at the windows and FORKS were
stuck over the latches Of the DOORS lest some one
should Inadvertently open one and bring In lay Oh
white light
Having lighted the red lantern. fasten the door
to the room to avoid any disturbance
Maria was perfectly happy when this was done
and all VIC could see was very dim red spot Of Hight
] oIr foll a
water set for rinsing the negative. This was only
an incident.
had marked one Of my trays d." for ID stands
for developer took ono part developer and ten
parts of water and put in the plate face up IN the
tray.
Then I watched closely. Maria also watched
closely Never until this moment did fuly No"
what II Is to watch closely. My eyes began 10 oiur
with the intensity of my gaze. The image should
appear in from to twenty seconds
gently rocked the tray to keep the liquid moving
Twenty seconds must have passed Despair began
to predominant over hope All small shrek from
my companion.
"There's somethln comm ~ she cried out as IL
crazed.
Yes. Dear, amateur photographers, you Know whab
this moment is when, out of the blankness, a form
begins to show itself diny if made OF spirit
This shape on our plate grew quickly more anu
more distinct. until at last there before Us unml'-
talably revealed by the miraculous art was, not ono
| object l had when / focussed but an upright
hitching post which stands at the end Of the house.
and for background the post was the long stretch
of country road and dim line of distant hills
For the bricfes space gazed spcllbound on this.
and was thinking the moment had come to take out
the plate for It beginning to fade, when To- the
whole picture was gone nothing before Us but
a blank plate.
Maria began to cry, and it with the utmost
difficulty that 1 prevented myself from joining her.
Since that day ! have tried sixteen time to get
picture OF something, / longer care what It is.
read nothing but my little book which IS entitled
Photography at Home7 I recte It to myself when
walk out, when l rise up and when sit down.
II really docs seem as If I knew the directions
thoroughly, but nothing comes out according to the
directions.
feel bitterly the ildlsguised contempt with which
the apparatus IS regarded By the Bennets. Even
Maria will now see go out, as still do, with my
camera and my tripod, and she will not attempt to
join me- She is no longer interested.
I try to develop in my own room. for II does not
right deprive the Bennets VI their Kitchen SO
much Of the time.
Occasionally am cheered by partial success, but
have not yet made a negative from which anything
can be printed read Of some who spoiled thirty
plates before he secured picture. have resolved
to spoil thirty plates II necessary. am going to get
some blue paper so that If do make a negative,
Will amuse myself with blue Prints before try
to penetrate further into the mysteries
Sometimes think fearfully that possibly the ability
to be a photographer, like reading and writing, comes
by nature If such Is the case. how many expert
ments are requisite before the fact that you cannot
do 1t is unmstahably established VIII some
amateur kindly reply to this question: