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lens, and if it is screwed up a little 

 too tight it "sticks" in the thread when 

 an attempt is made to remove it, and 

 brings the front lens with it. 



The lower part of the accompanying 

 illustration shows a simple device 

 formed of two cylinders and made of 

 leather bv a local harness dealer. This 



A METAL HOOD. 

 A LEATHER HOOD. 



is on the Volute shutter containing 

 a Goerz Celor lens and I think on the 

 whole is the most satisfactory form. 

 I therefore advise our camerists to 

 have two such cylinders made, one 

 to work within the other in draw tube 

 fashion, and to slip easily over the pro- 

 jecting portion of the front lens. This 

 is a comfort and will be a joy forever. 



During the past winter, in taking-snow 

 pictures, I have found it of especial ad- 

 vantage where very strong light came 

 not only from the heavens above but 

 from the snow on the ground. My ex- 

 perience has taught me that not only 

 in my own photographs but in those 

 which 1 have seen from fellow photo- 

 graphers much of the value of any 

 lens, and especially of the anastigmat 

 with its broad surface, is lost, because 

 its light is not limited directly to that 

 which comes from the object. It took 

 me many years, strange to say, to 

 realize the necessity for such a shade, 

 when I might early have saved 

 myself several long letters and many 

 postage stamps by asking the local har- 

 ness dealer to make this leather con- 

 trivance for me. I offer the suggestion 

 for the benefit of fellow workers, but 

 it is astonishing that such a suggestion 

 should be needed. It is equally astonish- 

 ing that I failed for so long a time to dis- 

 cover how to remedy the trouble. I 

 hope this suggestion will be accepted 

 by all my colleagues in the use of the 

 camera, and I hope too that it will lead 

 every manufacturer of anastigmat 

 lenses to supply, at moderate price, 

 well made leather hoods to fit each 

 size of their make of lenses. If each 

 optician does not care to do this, I hope 

 that some one house will put such an 

 appliance on the market, and I so- 

 firmly believe in its efficacy that if any 

 house will supply such a form ot 

 leather draw tube, this magazine will 

 be glad to give that device a free ad- 

 vertisement. 



What are Nature Photographs? 

 For more than a year we have been 

 by advertisement requesting that na- 

 ture photographs be submitted to us, 

 and w r e have received many, but nearly 

 all that have come have had scenic 

 beauty for their only merit. It seems 

 to us that the term, nature photograph, 

 should be applied to those pictures- 

 that show details of interest in nature 

 as well as mere scenic or landscape 

 beauty. The camerist should use his- 

 camera, as we have previously said,. 



