The American annual of photography . ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHS WITH INEX-PENSIVE APPARATUS By HORACE SYKES AD the venerable gentlemen of the NorthWestern Photographers Convention a fewyears ago when it was held at Seattle, Wash.,known that two of the three little sepia plati-num prints submitted by an art student, whichwere so much admired and given honors, were made with noneother than a reading glass for a lens, and a piece of cardboardfor a shutter, they probably would have expressed ridiculeand contempt instead of admiration. They did not know, however. The prints were conceded tobe good, and o


The American annual of photography . ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHS WITH INEX-PENSIVE APPARATUS By HORACE SYKES AD the venerable gentlemen of the NorthWestern Photographers Convention a fewyears ago when it was held at Seattle, Wash.,known that two of the three little sepia plati-num prints submitted by an art student, whichwere so much admired and given honors, were made with noneother than a reading glass for a lens, and a piece of cardboardfor a shutter, they probably would have expressed ridiculeand contempt instead of admiration. They did not know, however. The prints were conceded tobe good, and one even was selected and sent to a neighboringconvention as representative of the best work of the N. A. for the year. Shortly after becoming an amateur photographer I became 138. FRANCES. Figure i. Illustrating Article Artistic Photographs with Inexpensive Apparatus, by Horace Sykes.


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