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what should be the main feature of the picture. 

 What is true of an ocean view would be true of a 

 mountain view (Fig. 2) or of a picture in which a 

 valley or lake, a lawn, a house, the prairie, a distant 

 city, or a church spire formed the dominating feature 



FIG. 2. SUFFICIENT UNTO ITSELF. It would be unwise to have an artificial 

 flower-garden or any other artificial feature compete with a view like 

 this. 



(Fig. 3). There may be several pictures seen from 

 one point, if they are in different directions, but 

 they should usually be separated from each other by 

 some object such as a tree, a bit of woods, or a mass 

 of shrubs. 



In landscape work the fact that the point of view 



