Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . )ointof interest, the mountains. I might illustrate my meaning by reference to Mr. J. B. Bristols Mount Equinox.(Fig. 184.) With half an eye one can see that if a camera picture of this scene was 188 Wilsons quarter century in photography. brilliant light of the placid lake, with the varied outlines of the gray mountainsbeyond. There is not the atmosphere that we see in the Lake Leman/ but Fig. ordered of the photographer,he would terribly miss it if heatt
Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . )ointof interest, the mountains. I might illustrate my meaning by reference to Mr. J. B. Bristols Mount Equinox.(Fig. 184.) With half an eye one can see that if a camera picture of this scene was 188 Wilsons quarter century in photography. brilliant light of the placid lake, with the varied outlines of the gray mountainsbeyond. There is not the atmosphere that we see in the Lake Leman/ but Fig. ordered of the photographer,he would terribly miss it if heattempted it from a low it is we have a foregroundfull of pictorial value, a sj^len-did sense of expanse and dis-tance with a charming view ofthe mountains. But to secure such a combi-nation the artist must climb,perhaps two or three inclinesbefore he can find a properstandpoint. And yet there are exceptions to all rules. Thereare occasions where it is bestto remain lowly, but only whenthe best picture can be so ob-tained. Such an instance isexhibited by Mr. Albert Bier-stadts magnificent painting of•Mountain Lake. (Fig. 185.)This is a picture of a lakehedged in among the richestaccessories of tree and moun-tain which nature ever pro-vided. Here are a hundredpictures possible in one; butit is a picture of a *Moun- FiG. I8G. Fig. 185.
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