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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



The Camera and Out-of-Doors 

 BY E. M. HUNTSINGER, HARTFORD, CONN. 



The season for outdoor photography 

 is at hand, a real joy to the lover of 

 the beautiful in nature. 



Photographing wild flowers, shrubs, 

 plants, etc., is interesting because it 

 presents a variety of possibilities be- 

 yond the reach of the sky-light. Bet- 

 ter than all else, it takes one out-of- 

 doors and invests a walk with constant 

 interest and genuine pleasure, and 

 sometimes profit. 



ment of selection. Here study and ob- 

 servation count. Even the amateur with 

 limited experience knows the mechan- 

 ical features of the process and how 

 to focus his attention to the smallest 

 of details. Any boy who can make a 

 success! ul exposure of an ordinary 

 landscape and properly develop the 

 plate, can successfully expose and de- 

 velop plates of flowers, shrubs, trees, 

 etc., if he is reasonably careful. 



The devices necessary to photograph 

 flowers successfully in the house after 



THE LILY: BLOOM, OPENING BUD AND BUTTERFLY. 



There is a wide range of possibilities 

 in photographing blossoms and flowers 

 as the seasons come and go. The 

 maples, elms, and magnolias and some 

 small shrubs have alread) made their 

 bow and have side-stepped. 



The photographing of flowers is not 

 so much a matter of mechanical skill, 

 the exposure of the plate and its de- 

 velopment, as it is taste and judg- 



they have been brought from their 

 habitat requires a genius in arranging 

 them. It demands a considerable de- 

 gree of artistic feeling. It is no joke 

 to pose flowers naturally which you 

 can readily prove by a trial. This in- 

 ability to beautifully arrange or group 

 flowers is due largely to the fact that 

 we do not carefully study their ar- 

 rangement before we gather them. 



