The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-03
IN AMATEUR
PHOTOGRAPHY.

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NY NmotnI!ig. Contributions from atna-
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WV to send prints from their nothnlo
% negatives, giving particulars q I,h az.
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In late autumn. after the leaves have
fallen and the fields have taken on shtir
gray, brown tone OF pho,ographle de-,
spair, hundreds OF cameras are laid
away with the feeling ,pa, the land
scape photography Is over until the
leaves once moreappear TO afford a nest
ling plare FOR these shadows and halt
tones that are the photographers de.
light. But landscape photography Is
NOT over. Nature is only resting for a
moment, as she often does, before the
supreme effort. When autumn gives
place TO winter amateur photography
red letter days are at hand = not every
day nor evkrywhere-but occasionally.
and wherever one can get away from
towns and Villages to the woods and
fields. OF my own days afioat and afield
with the camera, no others hold so dear
a.place In my memory as a few winter
tramps In the woods Just outside the
little village which Is my home, and GER
tainly none has 80 repaid me In pic
lures. I can see now the narrow pas
ture lane down which turn from the
village street, the little hill that fronts
me ns enter the pasture. and when ]
reach It's crest see once more the
broad stretch Of alder swamp on the LEFT.
and before me IN undulating sea OF
white STITCHES away to the old stone
wall that separated the pasture from the
dark woods beyond-my goal. Reach
ing the wall I brush the fantastic err
mine from rlcEety pair OF bars, anu
plunge literally Into an unbroken woods
road A veritable fairyland ruad, It
winds along, now under overlapping
branches, ngain Between the lofty walls
OF the most beautiful tree In the world,
the snow-laden fir. Here are trees 1T for
the Yule-tide innumerable, clumps of
them. rows OF them, dressed in robes
OF white that are not cotton batting.
and bejeweled with a sheen that is not
tlnsel. The deep shadows by the road
side seeD tangible things, and leave be-
hind me trail OF blackness as IL I had
Just stepped from a coal pit My feet
make no noise In the soft snow, and the
profound silence is broken only by the
fall OF handful Of snow from an over
laden limb or the chatter OF q squirrel
frightened from his dinner table on the
top OF a stump near by.
NJ, fnr. m Hoo fhro11ph Hnpttnu-
ually changing, but ever beautiful
scenes. and It Is nearly nightfall when
arrive home. hungry and somewhat
tired, yet strengthened and invigorated
physically by the exercise In the open
air, and refreshed in spirit by the whis-
perings OF that "still small voice" Of
| Nature, which never speaks so sooth-
ingly as from the depths OF the winter
woods. "
Would you too find nature Mt her
best? Then on some comfortably warm
day IN winter throw the camera across
your shoulder and take such a tramp as
this. Never mind II the wind does blow
In town, 1t will be quiet in the woods,
and the sun will make all but the Bit
terest days endurable. DO not walt until
you can persuade some one else. to &C.
company you. Surely you cannot be
afraid OF an hour or two in your own
company. Then go and learn what a
pleasant comrade you can be. Some day
when there Is good Ice It IS a rare treat
to sling a light cycle camera and Z
pair OF skates on your back and, with
one or two congenial companions, make
your way TO some ice-oound stream that
will lead you away through the coun-
try, you don't know; exactly where. I
believe there Is q dormant Columbus In
every man which Will thrill for the mo-
ment IN response even to such petty
explorations as these. And such pie
lures! Their blaclt-and-white Is al
most the attainment OF the oft-discov-
cred photography In naturalcolors. But
mine are black and mud-color," YOU
say? Then a word to you about secur-
Ing good whites in snow scenes. The
road to success is In three easy stages;
correct exposure of a good plate, pro-
per development and suitable paper
for printing. The exposure can be learn
ed only by experiment, and this must
be done when the first snow comes.
The finest winter scenes are rare and
fleeing. A few hours in the morning,
and the rising wind brushes off the
feathery coating which had transform
ed the world, or the heat OF the sun
melts the more persistent covering left
by a rain storm. You must make no
experiments on such scenes as these,
for in few hours they are gone and
Will probably never be repeated. look
with everlasting regret upon dozen
failures that made one morning In
early winter. for among them devel-
oped the outlines OF picture such as
never expect 10 get in front OF the
camera again. It was view OF the
river, with an old schooner sailing laz-
lily down the middle distance, with Just
enough haze to give distance to the op-
posIte shore, and foreground OF snow
clad trees and bushes. II was the op-
portunity OF lifetime, and was lost
because had not previously tried lens
and plate on snow. I have watched
1--WE years In vain for its repetition.
Try your lens and plato under various
conditions OF light, and write down the
conditions and results. In developing
find It most convenient to use two solu-
lions, which require the addition OF
water for use. For snow scenes dimin-
ish the quantity OF alkali about one
fourth and increase the amount OF the
developing agent rs much, or else add
some OF the dry developing agent to
the developer, weak In alkali.-O. J.
Watts. In Mall and Express.
a FEW. months ago. Mr.. Byron Ev-
cry, OF Woodstock, Mich. was badly ar
nicted with rheumatism. His right leg
was swollen the full length, causing
him great suffering. He was advised 10
try Chnmberlain's Pain Balm. The first
bottle of It helped him considerably and
the second bottle effected cure. Tho
2h and 20 cent Sizes are for snln L.,