Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

chief clerks. Lunchtime would enable
the photographer to portray the pretty
girls, always good subjects In pictures.
The National Geological Park, it
would seem, would furnish as many
reels as one desired to take, particularly
if child could be shown. with its re-
actions toward the various cages and
exhibits
The writer here recalls an inimitable
scene which he once saw at the Zoo.
which so impressed itself on his
memory that he can see it again at
any time he closes his eyes. 1t was
of three peacocks, which stood above
the west entrance to the lion house.
One of the fowls was just above the
door, one little lower at the left side.
above the door, and the other on thu
same level at the right. They were al
perfectly posed as If the greatest
screen director of them all, whoever
he is, had wired them fast there.
For a period of at least two minutes
they stood, twisting their necks from
side to side, preening their feathers,
expanding their great tails, first in one
direction, then in another.
1t was the chance of lifetime, OF
course, and amateur movies were in
their infancy, and We. alas, did not
even have a hand camera! Perhaps
one might visit the National Geological
Park for half century without ever
seeing peacocks in such q position
again.
But these birds always would make
interesting pictures, especially If taken
with color film in full sunlight. as we
understand color pictures must be taken.
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A sense for pictures must be de-
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picture or still camera. There are
scores of beautiful but unheralded views
around Washington, not only in Rock
Greek Park, but in all directions from
the city, which only the trained eye
will see as pictures.
It is one thing to admire a scene and
quite another to realize, in the midst of
admiration, that it is a picture. The
picture sense is much the same as the
news or story sense with trained
newspaper man. Those who are un-
trained will be interested in something,
all right but they will not have the
slightest idea, perhaps, that what they
hear is a story The trained man
feels an electric something pass through
him at the very start. 1t is almost as
if some one had punched button. 1t
is story, as he calls it!
Only the man who develops the pic
ture sense will get the most out of his
camera, whether it takes stills" or
movies" The field of the latter, of
course, in some respects is tremendously
broader than with the hand camera
The motion picture operator can get all
that the man with the still camera
can, and in addition he can take mo-
ton, which delights all created things.
In travelling along Conduit road re-
Gently, on the other side Of Cabin John
Bridge, we came across as pretty a
pastoral scene as one would want to
find 1t was picture" worth going
miles to see-and take away in the form
of photograph.
We CHANGED to see a photograph
taken of landing from one of the
small steamers which ply between here
and Baltimore. The scene was ami
mated, showing a recalcitrant calf be-
ing loaded on board. But the real pic
ture was toward the end of the road
BY covering the lower half of the pic
ture, for which the picture was taken
a beautiful view emerged, much supe-
rior to the picture as whole.
This is the picture sense, and the
writer here makes no particular claim
to it, except as developed through a
lifetime of taking pictures with small
cameras He believes it is easily de-
veloped, and must be developed, If one
is to take satisfactory movies" and
make the most of his camera.