Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-05-13
Down IN MAOR|[AND
{. MELVIN VANIMAN IS
PERFORMING GREAT FEATS
Free Lance Tells of His Work
Reference to Addison Miner
and Hornets Nest
Episode.

If for no other reason, c. Melvin Va
r'man, formerly connected with King
Prothers' art store on Hotel street, will
be- remembered by the great cameras
winch he succeeded in manufacturing
and operating successfully in this city.
His pictures of marine views about Ho'
nolulu have become the wonder and
admiration of the people here and
abroad, and from recent letters anu
Lotices in papers from various parts Of
New Zealand, he is making a great
reputation for himself in the land of
the Maors. This is what the Free
Lance" of Wellington, n. H., has to
Sd. Of the photographer:
c. Melvin Vaniman, when he is on
terra flrma. Is a medium.sizcd Ameri.
aCn. with an amused expression and
iour.fOot camera. He is in Wellington
Just now making pictures up to six
feet long, and his photographs are per.
APPS the finest specimens of landscape
work this country has seen. He Is full
CT aneCdote and enthusiasm, and If
there's n ship in harbor whose skys
yard is away up nearer heaven than
any other in port. Melvin gets hauled
ur. and takes snapshot of twenty or
thirty miles of country with the big.
gcst plate in the world. He had never
h. ard of New Zealand short time
stree. but he dropped on little book
in a hotel in Honolulu. saying there
was scenery here. That settled IT.
{. Melvin Vaniman chartered big
lorry, and got his machine on board a
"Sprcckels" right then. There were
tW Clve Americans on board that boat
locking for scenery. and not one tex.
Ccpt himselD landed in Auckland.
They were going to Australia looking
for landscape! The San Francisco
photographer is glad he came. He gets
better pictures in New Zealand than
he does at home or in Honolulu and
W NllhSNOll lilt pl'NhlN vi
the lot. If he cannot get boat with
high topmast, he gets pole erected
Instead. In Honolulu a person who
wanted a photograph OF hia ironworks
put up a pole 1917 feet high, and the
aerial artist got his four-foot negative
from near the top of it.
There is now big enough camera
in New Zealand to effectively photo.
graph the possessor OF the largest kind
of swelled head. Gentlemdh Of up
wards of twenty stone may stand on
Mount Victoria, and Mr.. V1niman will
snap them OFF from the skysl yard of
man-o'war. He'll get them in SINE
how. 1t took twenty horses and a
stage coach to carry Vaniman and his
cUmera from Taupo to Wanganui. At
least, he was the only passenger
Sometimes, he has adventures. At
Honolulu. he wanted to make a picture
Of the crater Kilauea, and Addison
Miner, the local Beau Brummel was
dying to go too Would Addison NJ,
help drag the machine? why, Ger.
toinly." And he dragged it through a
hornets nest!
The landscape, like the resultant
photograph, was extremely pictur.
oaque. Mrs. Vaniman, who is an ar.
tisI, travels with her husband and his
gigantic photographs. She colors
these photographs until they look like
the most exquisite water colors. Mr..
Vuniman finds that the New Zealand
PEOPLE are very hospitable. He is hay,
lis a right royal time" and he
gIesses he will stay right along for a
further spell until he gathers all the
beauty spots of New Zealand within
the scope of his portfolio.
The Evening Post of Wellington has
this to say:
New Zealand is being visited by Mr.
md Mrs. Melvin Vaniman. artist pho
t"Rraphers, OF Chicago and San Fran
cisco. They are making a worlds
{ tour, for the purpose of preparing q
} unique exhibition Of photographs. plain
and colored, for the St. Louis EXposi
tion, which is to be held in 1903. Mr.
Whitman already has some splendid
, panoramic pictures of Californian, Ha
, wailan, and New Zealand scenes. Hi,
r pictures of Rotorua, printed direct b,
; n new process of his own from a mega
g tive three feet long are the most Gtrik
r ing and beautiful photographs we hav,
seen. Mr. Vaniman says New Zealan,
Is lovely country for pictures, and h.
has his monster camera constantly il
@ use 1t is his intention to get panC
8 ramlc picture of Wellington from tn
E farbor. He has already taken a fin
n view of the city from a northern al
Q pect.