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duced, perhaps because few knew exactly how they were 

 managed. But they are now so common that many 

 persons consider them rather tiresome than otherwise. 

 Still, they give the operator a ready means of varying his 

 work, if the dissolving apparatus be used with judgment. 

 Thus most beautiful effects can be obtained in landscapes, 

 more especially in seascapes, by using photographic 

 cloud pictures, the gradual blending of one clouded sky 

 into another giving fine aerial and very natural results. 

 In one set of pictures which I prepared to demonstrate 

 the beauties of cloudland, in connexion with a lecture on 



FIG. 5. 



ballooning, a sunrise picture was made to melt into a sun- 

 set picture, and in due time this latter gave place to a 

 moonlight effect. I am convinced that much can be done 

 in this direction if time can be given to the preparation of 

 the pictures. 



