THE CAMERA 



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ADOBE HOUSES IX MEXICAN OUARTKRS IX AIJiUOUEROUE. 



them as good as possible. To waste 

 materials in half doing' a thing' is a 

 moral wrong. With this little camera 

 in my saddlebag I started out bent on 

 success. I gauged my exposures by a 

 simple exposure meter and used only 

 a small top. My first pictures were a 

 complete surprise. How could a lens 

 produce such clear-cut, beautiful re- 

 sults in my hands when I knew not 

 the first principles of art? Of course 

 I made mistakes; but a careful study 

 of a small book of photography soon 

 rectified these, and my pictures at once 



found read}- sale at a price that more 

 than paid the expense of materials. 

 Some pictures were taken of subjects 

 far away from the haunts of men where 

 photographers seldom go ; these I soon 

 found were of great interest to my 

 friends, and my camera became a de- 

 finite factor in advertising our mis- 

 sionary work. Through our workers 

 the pictures were distributed freely, 

 and many people became instructed 

 and interested in Home Mission Work. 

 The processes of photography are 

 mysterious, but intensely fascinating 



SILVA'S SHRINE. 

 A private chapel — the smallest in the world. 



