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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



SMMV PICTUKES OF COMMONPLACE 

 SUBJECTS. 



BY GEO. W. KKLLOGG, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Good snow pictures are worth the 

 time and trouble necessary for getting 

 them. The most commonplace of 

 subjects, decorated with snow are 

 often transformed into scenes of 



N. Y. Ordinarily, there are other 

 views here, far more attractive and of 

 greater interest, that now, with the 

 snow and the lighting, are secondary. 

 For two days preceding there had been 

 a continuous storm — part snow, part 

 rain, no wind. Then a lowering of the 

 temperature at night ; a creaking of 



beauty, which, under the proper light 

 conditions have pictorial possibilities. 

 But few arc the winter days, at least 

 in \'r\\ York slate, thai are ideal snow 

 picture days ; and when there are 

 such days the good picture conditions 

 are often of very brief duration. 



The illustrations show portions of 

 a foot path, leading into the river 

 gorge, in one of the parks in Rochester, 



the snow as footmen and vehicles 

 passed before dawn; a cloudless sky 

 —all giving promise of one of the ideal 

 snow picture occasions. 



Mere are the operations. In the 

 lield. alone and working at sunrise. 

 Sidelighting, long shadows across the 

 field of view. Apparatus: Kodak, ray- 

 filter, tripod : all being used. Stop, 

 U. S. 16 (f 16). Exposures. 3 seconds. 



