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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



for the camera. As a realm for photog- 

 raphy, I have loved this spot perhaps 

 more than any other on the Connecti- 

 cut beach. I have visited it in mid- 

 winter when the sun was sparkling 

 delightfully from the tiny ripples that 

 danced across the bay, and when in the 

 foreground was a picturesqueness of 

 detail and on every object a wealth of 

 "ermine too dear for an earl," scenes 

 that I have never elsewhere seen equal- 

 led. To my fellow photographers of 

 nature I point with no little satisfaction 

 to this winter scene in which are com- 

 bined the warmth of the sun and the 



the coziness and the cheerfulness and 

 the beauty of the home on the distant 

 peninsula. That picture and the one 

 that shows the definite foreground of 

 rocks and grinding cakes of ice. with 

 the dreamy distance, I otter with no lit- 

 tle satisfaction to our lovers of nature, 

 as one of the best portrayals of natural 

 scenery that I have ever studied. Photog- 

 raphers who have pictured footpaths 

 in the snow and cart paths into tlv 

 marshes of forests to portray coldness, 

 and a winter atmosphere with dainti- 

 ness of outline, and dreamy distance, 



FROM THE VERANDA. 



coldness of the snow. Do not, I beg 

 you, pass it idly by. It is attractive 

 even at first glance, but the more you 

 study it from the photographer's point 

 of view, the more distinctly you will 

 see that here is a fascinating exhibition 

 of winter nature. Can any portrayal 

 in black and white excel the foreground 

 for perfect detail and an atmosphere 

 of coldness? Can anything surpass 

 the glinting and glittering" of the sun 

 on the water in picturesque coziness 

 and cheeriness? Nothing perhaps, 

 except the thought of what must be 



carefully examine these scenes and tell 

 me if in all your views of nature in any 

 photograph showing details, you have 

 ever seen a more perfect or a more im- 

 pressive effect. Aside from showing 

 the territory as it is, such views sug- 

 gest thoughts too deep for utterance 

 What a scene not only for the pho- 

 tographer but for the poet. I often 

 wish I were a builder of rhythmical 

 lines that might express such dreams 

 as must come to one in magnificent 

 scenes like this, where there are the 



