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THE GUIDE T< » X \Tl kE 



Photographing Clouds. 



BY WILSON A. i:i;\l'l.i;v, J ERICHO, 

 VERMONT. 



The clouds! Now beautiful and 

 varied they are, and what infinite 

 diversity they impart to the bine vault 

 i »f the sky. 



We find among the charming cloud 

 forms something distinctive for every 

 season and for every mood of nature. 

 I lie stern skies of winter are hardly 

 less embellished by these beautiful 

 evanescent forms than are the soft 

 skies of summer. We hardly have to 

 use our imaginative faculties to per- 

 ceive that there are angry looking 

 clouds, and that there are others that 

 seem to smile upon us. Placidity, 

 calmness, gorgeousness, agitation, 

 sternness, imperiousness, menace, seem 

 at one time and another to be express- 

 ed by their forms and aspect. Yet how 

 few people there are who really ob- 

 serve and admire and study them nn- 



derstandin^ly, and as they should be, 



and according to the all-important 

 part the}- play in nature's plan. Yet 

 to some, and it is to be hoped an ever- 

 increasing number, the}- are a source 

 of pure and never ending delighl 

 through all the changing seasons. 



ddie artist sees in them forms and 

 exquisite colorings which, if trans- 

 planted to his canvasses, will add 

 vastly to their artistic merit. Hence 

 they try, though vain the task, to 

 catch the evanescent tints and forms 

 of these sky masterpieces wrought in 

 vapour. The photographer also sees 

 in them that which may add much to 

 the beauty and value of his pictures 

 of land forms, architecture, etc. 



But the pure lover of nature for 

 nature's sake alone, the poet and 

 dreamer of daydreams, sees among 

 these cloud legions, wrought by the 

 magic of the mists, glories without 

 number, strangely beautiful or fantas- 



\\ HAT BETTER VARIETY FOR THE CAMERA THAN THE TOWERING "THUXDERHEADS.' 



