The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
Difficult Photography.
Clos Angeles Times.)

lev, where light and shade height and Depth and
perspective and atmosphere are presented on so gil
gantic SCALE though compactly massed that the best
efforts of the photographer glorious as the results
are, fall far short of attaining his desires
One who has seen the falls, for instance must feel
only disappointment in the photograph, so made
quately is the real majesty and grandeur portrayed.
The life, the action the grace of motion, the Titanic
power, the overwhelming roar, the play of lights
eliminating in the elusive rainbow of colors in the
spray, the sharp moist draft of air caused by the
velocity of the waterfall these, which make up
much of the charm, outside the province of the
camera and not to be considered. Yet sou-t
eyes may close life and animation depart, and the
corpse still be transcendeny beautiful but the pho
tographs of the falls, beautiful though they are lack
an indefnable something which one feels by right
should be there.
At first, the mind, like the camera, fails to grasp
it, until it has had time to adjust itself to the supen-
dous reality Viewed from its foot, one cannot tell
whether the width of a fall at the top is eighteen
inches or eighteen feet and feels no surprise be-
ing told that it is twice the latter figure AS we'll
try to estimate the size of the moon by seeing it
rise when at its full But day by day the falls
definite proportions until one realizes
something of their actual value.
the ages are an ignis-fatuus that lures the photog
rapher on and on to further effort For eleven sea-
sons an expert has been phoographing the Yosemite
with the best of equipment In that time he has
made less than 800 negatives Of that seemingly
simple subject, FL Captain Ito say nothing of the
many times he has gone for the purpose without
taking it at a1), in his efforts to make the picture
give to the beholder the mental impression that
the colossal granite cliff gave to him in its best
lights and atmospheres
For more than three years he worked par
tcularly picturesque spot the Wawona road start
ing long before day to get the early morning lights,
before he content with the cameras portrayal
No less difficult are the mountain trails. The pho
tograph of a small section-as much as the camera
take inof the zigzag UP the edge of the almost
vertical wall of the valley Glacier point, in which
an altitude of 5000 feet above the valleys floor is
reached by mueback ride of three miles, gives lit
tie or no idea of the dizzy heights and depths and
distances as the eye sees them from cyries on the
way When flying machines permit aerial posi-
tons for cameras, better effects may be secured in
some instances, but when a mountain looms up
where tripod ought to stand the case is hopeless.
Overhanging rock at Glacier point is favorite
subject as nature has been kind in providing camera
The view is usually the same, the pictures be-
ing varied by the poses OF more or less caring lndl-
viduals the rock, which is merely wedged in like
lever and may be made to vibrate by a person
standing at the outer edge.
San Francisco acrobat, outdoing all previous
,omers, threw backward summersaut on this rock
md performed many other feats for the benefit of
Mr. Boysen's camera. People the pictures and
wonder and exclaim at the mans fearlessness or
according to their point of view; but
hey have thought of the photographer on SINH
ar overhangng rock The former perfectly at