44 PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION. 



The suggestion in last year's report that a series of photographs 

 of architectural subjects should be obtained has not as yet borne 

 much fruit : convenient opportunities for such work are few during 

 term. The Summer excursions included some of the churches round 

 about, but only the visit to Tewkesbury had any photographic success. 

 Yet it is very desirable that members should take up some definite 

 line of work ; and it may be possible to institute prizes next term 

 for particular series of photographs. Flowers, animals, clouds, school 

 games and incidents, would afford all the necessary difficulty and 

 interest ; and other subjects might be suggested. There was a 

 member last year who had the idea of securing snapshots, one by 

 one, of all his unconscious pastors and masters — a sufficiently terrible 

 design, as yet happily incomplete. 



A collection of prints made by members during the Summer term 

 was exhibited at the end of the term, the prize for the best set of 

 three going to L. C. Willcox. Only three competed for the prize. 

 Willcoxwas also first-pri2e winner at the annual exhibition of lantern- 

 slides held in December ; for this prize, eleven competitors sent in 

 slides, the judging of which was very kindly undertaken by Captain 

 C. M. Harrisson, who expressed a favourable opinion of the average 

 merit of the slides, considering that in many cases they were the 

 work of beginners. The prize winner was fortunate in his models — 

 a tribe of dogs, very happily posed and taken, and his work won high 

 praise from the judge. The second prize was taken by A. A. Johnston 

 with some pretty scenes " from foreign parts." Besides the slides of 

 members of the section, others were lent for exhibition by W. B. 

 Wilson, H. F. H. Coddington, Mr. Borchardt, and Capt. Harrisson. 

 Some of the prize photographs are reproduced. 



The Society's present dark room seems to grow smaller ; in the 

 heat of the Summer it was often over-full : but the wish expressed 

 here some years ago that a better might be in the future, remains still 

 but a pious hope. 



