Anthony's photographic bulletin for .. . mountain, plain, or river. You can almost fancy you hear the breakers roar as you see them lashing intheir fury the rocks at your feet ; or hear the rippling rivulet dashing down themountain glen, as it sheds its silvery spray on feathery fern and mossy boulders,murmuring its blithesome melody as it hurries to the sea ; or listen to the music ofthe forest wild as you gaze on Natures tangled wild wood and peep into the lyrebirds nest in fairy dells ; and scent the perfume of native musk and forest wildflowers as you see once more the mossy banks covered
Anthony's photographic bulletin for .. . mountain, plain, or river. You can almost fancy you hear the breakers roar as you see them lashing intheir fury the rocks at your feet ; or hear the rippling rivulet dashing down themountain glen, as it sheds its silvery spray on feathery fern and mossy boulders,murmuring its blithesome melody as it hurries to the sea ; or listen to the music ofthe forest wild as you gaze on Natures tangled wild wood and peep into the lyrebirds nest in fairy dells ; and scent the perfume of native musk and forest wildflowers as you see once more the mossy banks covered with delicate ferns, enameledand bespangled in rich profusion with Natures sweetest blooms ; while, as you gazeon features well remembered, you feel it is not a portrait you are looking at, but thefriend of long ago is there. You ga/.e into his eyes, and catch, as in days of yorethe merry twinkle lurking there, and hear once more the well-remembered musicof lips long silent, which seems to float around you in notes of sweetest cadence,. ? 37i re-vibrating many a lost chord of fondest recollection, and thrilling with emotion theheart of each beholder. We must leave our flights of fancy, however, and come to practical work. There are three ways of practicing stereoscopic photography. First.—To have a regular stereoscopic camera, and use it for that purpose are many such in the market, and I need only refer you to a good catalogue,where you will find plenty from which to make a selection. Second.—An ordinary half-plate camera, having a quarter or half-plate lensfitted into a sliding front. You first take a picture, say the right side, which fillsone-half of your half-plate. Put on the cap, and slide the front 2i or 3 inches ;then take a view of the same object on the other half of the plate, having a par-tition down the middle of the camera. Third.—An ordinary half-plate camera, having a separate front fitted with twoquarter-plate lenses. The plan I adopt is the t
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