Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . iew or directly end on.—Xanthus Smith. 86. To-day, while I write, the air is as clear as in the White Mountains in June, andas mild as Newport at the same season; out of my window are the vivid green meadowsof the garden of England, here and there dashed with clouds of daisies and buttercups;the trees in their tender first green, with silvery willows and hedgerows of hawthorn likegreen waves on a green sea breaking into foam of blossom. In the distance, the roll
Wilson's quarter century in photography : a collection of hints on practical photography which form a complete text-book of the art . iew or directly end on.—Xanthus Smith. 86. To-day, while I write, the air is as clear as in the White Mountains in June, andas mild as Newport at the same season; out of my window are the vivid green meadowsof the garden of England, here and there dashed with clouds of daisies and buttercups;the trees in their tender first green, with silvery willows and hedgerows of hawthorn likegreen waves on a green sea breaking into foam of blossom. In the distance, the rollingdowns with great golden drifts of gorse come up against the sky, blue, almost cloudless,but with a misty tenderness which we so rarely find in the American half of the blueexpanse. * I look out of my window and despair of photography, it gives so little of all that ismost entrancing in nature. But a little glimpse here and there is my consolation; afarm-yard, just seen amongst the towering elms; a bit of a lane where the trees over-arch, and where we may sometimes catch a carter with his heavy train, and stop him Fig. OUTDOOR OPERATIONS. 187 The more strictly artistic composition is found in another painting by , A Scene in Xew Hampshire (Fig. 183). The group of njble Fig. 183.
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