The age-herald., 1901-03-31

The cyclone has stirred things up some what On Tuesday the dealers in photo- graphic mateiaEev were busy as bees all day dealing thet' wares out to amateurs, and thus the old saying, "Its an i'll wind blows no good" is again exemp1ihed. One dealer remarked: We sold lots of materials. but 1 have seen no pictures yet" Of course 1t is too soon to get out much finished work but what have seen points a good many lessons pertinent to our subject
 The irrepressible boy goes out to view the ruins and catches really excellent grouping of his friends with the joliest of grins. That is right. If art does not come to you in the guise you are looking for, take her in the garment in which she presents herself; and if you do this consistently and love her well you will soon learn her moods so that you will know where she can be found easily.
 
 When many people do anything it is to be expected that much that is done will be positively bad. and this holds good in amateur photography as well as In ther things, and yet the proportion of bad pictures that I have seen of the ruins caused by the cyclone is remarka- ply small-some are really ereditable.
 It is no easy task to elbow your way among Q jostling crowd. and you want to get the best views before the debris has been cleaned up, and everybody caR tell you where there is a far better view, the small boy being very insistent on the question: with the colored gentleman ranking next and very close. The new worker in an emergency Is liable to take such advice and go chasing views on the say so of those who know not the differ ence between an art principle and a tri- pod.
 This sort of thing accounts for the vast preponderance of general views. the eb- 5ect being to crowd as much detail and us many details as possible into the sin gle picture. Something like the small boy eating his favorite cake-he shows his appreciation by stuffing his mouth 20 full that the taste is lost and he sat isfies himself with the rude qualification of possession.
 Thus the amateur who is young (and some remain young for a long time) tries to crov4l all he can into the picture. Our central idea with a few others as access sory Is not enough for the tyro; he must get all that is possible and the more the merrier-two sides of the street are bet ter than one, two divergent reads 'show4 ing more" He forgets that the eye aS well as the mouth can get too much at once, and when too full does not enjoy what it gets
 One of my earliest memories is my first bo of paints. I was enjoying myself in- tcrsely. as only small boy with q new toy knows how. painting the engravings h my book red and blue. Soon the mix ing fever struck me, and as a mixture of red and blue was q pleasant change, therefore a good thing must be carried to f its apparent conclusion, mix them alh Into tin cup they went, with water Aot v7ter to get them melted quickly Inn n"ipe my disgust when I fourf the re- s,it to be the dirtiest looking sort of r-,,d
 And just as the eye is d'soleased with a mixing of pigments. 50 it is repelled v-.ih mixing or over-.rowding ideas or objects in picture. Simplicity is the highest attainmert of genius, and while fSis. =ot lil,ely that any of us are over hiTdened with genius we ought to try to progress toward the best and along the same lines ( s the masters.
 
 I had hoped to write about developing week but the cyclone obtruded itself and the lessons are too good to be passed nnnoticed. Development will come later. MT C. E. Paine made some very fine 4x5 negatives of the storms work; one was especially effective, the clouds hav- ing something of the angry cyclonic con ditions of the earlier part of Monday. Have eany of our older workers ever no nh O hP1