Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-09-24
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How a Flower Behaves at the Mo-
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INTER-ISLAND AIR-WAYS
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Out of Honolulu, destination the
Island Of Matt, second largest in
the Hawaiian group, reached the
airport just in time to scramble
into the tail pit and take the last
seat.
Across from me sat a roly-poly
red faced man with sky blue
eyes and contagious smile. No
sooner had we slipped from the
earth than he began to fuss with
sixteen-nillimeter motion picture
camera. Another nut, thought T..
Why pictures of the sea? Blue
don't photograph well anyhow.
Presently I discovered that he
was supplied with films for taking
natural color. That settled it; he
must be a millionaire gone daffy
over the rainbow racket.
''They come high, these techni-
color experiments" remarked.
every, especially if you don't
know what you're doing" he re-
piled, fu1nbling around in his upper
vest pocket from which he resur-
rected a card that he passed over
to me. s'I've sort of gotten by that
phase of photography. Business
with me now
Lord of the Lens.
I glanced at the bristol: "Arthur
c. Pillsbury" Luckily, for me.
Here, two thousand feet in the air,
unprotected one might say, and no
place to go, was the wizard who
had with his camera juggled the
spectrum and given the laugh to
the fourth dimension. A naturalist,
scientist, inventor, explorer and
Lord of the Lens. With his camera
he made explorations in plant and
animal life that place him among
the eminent. Fate had delivered
him into my hands. Sorry, Mr..
Pillsbury," said, "but you're the
man I have long wished to talk
with"
''About what?" he asked, continu-
ing his manipulation of the camera.
"Flower photography -. Oh, yes,
I've heard your lecture, but there is
another phase, not entirely photo
graphic, which you alone can ex-
plain. And that is the resemblance
that flowers bear to human beings,
particularly in their behavior when
they are in the act of poisoning.
More frequently perhaps than any
other man, you have witnessed this
miracle"
'Ask your questions. I will reply
to the best of my knowledge"
s'Name the most heroic, the most
modest, the most firtatious, the
most deliberate, the most majestic
flowers that you have observed
through the camera"
Up forward, on sixteen pas
senger plane, the propellers make
considerable noise, luckily for me,
cut down 60 per cent in the tail
seats. Mr. Pillsbury came across
100 per cent
Tiger Lily Is Bombastic.
eff you want to put it that way,
the most heroic, or the most bonn
bastic perhaps would suit better,
the tiger lily heads the list" he
said. "When it is ready to come
forth there is a visible straining of
the petals, all of which cling to-
gether from base to tip. In the
struggle they split down the sides,
but remain apparently fastened at
the top. Rampant to emerge, the
tiger lily, already disclosing a
wealth of color within the halfclosed
petals, displays what amounts
to physical resistance.
''Most modest is the morning
glory; unfolding slowly, like some
thing startled at the coming of
sunlight, her petals expanding
with rhythmic deliberation. At
the sight of the world she retires
behind her sillen blinds and is for
gotten. With the morning glory I
associate the daisy, for the very
reason that the latter combines a
playfulness with her good breeding.
deliberate is the rose, fashioned
to beautify with the solidarity of
her color and the perfection of her
form, she energies with stateliness
the more magnificent because of
it's fullnesS.
How Magician Works.
eThe swiftest blooming flower is
the Cup of Gold, which attains it's
maximum beauty here in Hawaii.
Fifteen minutes after the Cup be-
gins to appear, she is out in full
plumage. On the screen, through
pictures run at the rate of twenty
four exposures second, this entire
transaction in the blossoming of
the Gold Cup will consume about
forty-five seconds"
Elm flower photography, designed
to show the actual blossoming, do
you work outdoors?"
"Never! Wind, sunlight, shadows,
etc., are never stationary. Only in
the studio, under electric lights,
equalized temperatures and artii-
cial conditions, can perfect photog-
raphy in natural colors be guar
anteed. When a specimen flower is
about to bloom, make an exposure
every five seconds for certain
E -riod and then an exposure every
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