The American annual of photography . C. W. SEEING AND FEELING By GUY SPENCER CLASS in photography, rambling along the coun-try-side in quest of atmosphere stopped in frontof a miniature water-fall. It was a modest streamof water making its way sedately down a barrenhill-side, apologetically washing over slippery and shiny stones, with never a sunbeam to play among its drops. One of the workers, evidently thinking a fall of water, no matter how unpretentious, must have artistic possibilities called out to the instructor:*Is this a picture or a record?*A record, came the reply, Pass on.
The American annual of photography . C. W. SEEING AND FEELING By GUY SPENCER CLASS in photography, rambling along the coun-try-side in quest of atmosphere stopped in frontof a miniature water-fall. It was a modest streamof water making its way sedately down a barrenhill-side, apologetically washing over slippery and shiny stones, with never a sunbeam to play among its drops. One of the workers, evidently thinking a fall of water, no matter how unpretentious, must have artistic possibilities called out to the instructor:*Is this a picture or a record?*A record, came the reply, Pass on. And herein lies a difference in photography where one records what he sees, another expresses what he feels. In the old days photography was hampered by mechanical difficulties and perplexities; but with time have come such 82
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