The age-herald., 1901-03-24
AMATUER PHOTOGRAPHY
S1s ssss VSs 6so
BY R. W. HARRISON.

ing eighty miles an hour and an absolute ly colorless sky are rather uncommon phenomena. They become more than or dinarily interesting if you have ever been in an ordinary gale on the ocean, hanging on by life lines, while seas break over the decks, and to the readers of this depart ment there Is still the added interest of q gentleman with a camera trying to get shot at the waves and passing ocean liner which looks like a chip on lake
 The central figure In this scene Is MT l IT. H. Sinnige of this city, who returned from a trip to Europe some little tune ago. From the picture he got the aIote- mentioned storm must have been stir | ring affair. Two of them are the pest or large waves I have ever seen. The water looks more terrible than many combined l cataracts and one gets some little idea of the enormous strength of the splendld 1 structures which ride such seas in per 1 feet safety.
 l Mir. Sinnige is an enthusiastic camerlst' l owning several fine instruments, among 1 them a panoramic camera. His itineafy l fin Europe is traced by his pictures. Rot
 terdam being the first spot visited. The l wind mills of Holland came in for good 1 share of attention, six of them being Vis- ible in one very peaceful canal scene | He also got good plates of two Of queen | Wilhtlmlnas palaces.
 At the Paris exposition he wisely bought , his pictures. bringing his camera into use
 again in the Alps. One little gem is a l general view in which five peaks rise, one
 behind the other with Mont Blanc in the l distance It Is a beautiful composition
 and the atmospheric effect Is one of the
 best I have ever seen.
 The Jungfrau came in for good deal
 of attention, and tourists in the snow on
 July 2s, wearing smoked glasses, look very interesting.
 Of Lake Iucome, the lake of the Four l Cantons, and the Rhine. he brought pack l Interesting views and one art gem each 1 the falls of the Rhine being especially
 fine. ,..,,
 If is A pity that there Is no camera club
 in existence in this city, where such col
 lections as these could be seen and ao-
 nnired by the general public.
 MT. Hurley of Cleveland, o. who IS stoppinR at the Metropolitan, recently ,oa6a sorne snapshots some of which are l varv admira ble One was spec1aily l good hit. but he was honest enough to
 give the praise for it to Mrs. Hurley who made the picture. It was charac- | teristic street crossing scene In blrhlhB 1 ham. the principal figure being We'll l potsed negress stepping along with bundle of clothes on her head. She was q strapping big figure, and the perfection of tbe noise was accentuated by contrast with the rotund forms of two polcemeh in the middle distance ambling along, go- ing nowhere probably The whole art quality embodied in the picture made II remarkably striking grouping The Ia dy probably would say 1t was only stray shot; no doubt some people have habit of making such stray shots every once In a while and a great added Deau- tv is the lack of ostentation with Whlch such things are shown.
 Snow pictures are seldom obtainable in this climate fortunately, and so when a little of "the beautiful does visit this section cameras are piled vigorously With more or less success usually less, for snow Ia hard to "do" One of the most admirable pictures of the last snow was by Miss Lena Jackson. The picturesque | chert fence capped with snow makes an | interesting foreground and that feature Is half of any picture
 M. Schoen has devised a new photo l graphic printing process. The invent }r
 bases his discovery upon the use of dlazo l compounds, as In the primulin process
 and feer-type He converts ortho-amido-
 salicylic acid into it's diaZo compound by
 the action of sodium nitrate in a well
 cooled solution of the acid in diluted hy- l drochloric acid"
 The above was taken from a current is- | sue of q magazine devoted to amateur | photography. If any reader wishes to work out the process he is welcome to try.
 Don't forget to ask questions regarding failures which you don't understand. This department is designed to assist all grades of amateurs. Address
 AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPT, Age Herald.