JANUARY 1, 1913 



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By Boulder Creek. — Photo bv Wesley Foster. Along the streams the willows, maples, and cottonwoods are 

 the first to gladden the bees with offerings of pollen and honey. 



EDUCATION AND THE CAMERA 



BY WESLEY FOSTER 



[Few have realized that our department editor 

 from Colorado is a picture-lover. He is not a kodak 

 Send who snaps every thing ana yet makes no real 

 pictures, hut an enthusiast who sees the beauties of 

 nature with artistic eyes, and who is able, by the 

 aid of his camera, to make i^ermanent what he sees. 



We give place to this article here, not so much 

 because it will be a help to beginners in beekeeping, 

 but because it will serve as an introduction to sev- 

 eral other beautifully illustrated articles by Mr. Fos- 

 ter, to appear in the near future, that will make 

 beekeeping more intelligible to beginners and more 

 interesting to all. 



The cover picture for tliis issue, " Nature's Own 

 Parking," is the third photograph submitted with 

 this article. — Ed.] 



If some educational dreamer had arisen 

 twenty j-ears ago and advocated the intro- 

 duction of picture-taking as a part of the 

 school curriculum he would have been 

 laughed at ; but to-day we already have the 

 dark-room along with the laboratories in 

 our modern schools. 



The old idea about picture-taking, stere- 

 opticon entertainments, and such like, was 

 that they were merely diversions, while now 

 it is recognized that we learn Cjuicker and 

 retain longer what has been absorbed in an 

 atmosjihere of pleasure. And in everj- vil- 

 lage, where there are camera " fiends "' I 

 hope they will lay the matter of a picture- 



making studio before the school board when 

 a new building is to go u^i or an old one 

 remodeled. 



The camera will be an aid to all other 

 studies — the mathematics of correct expos- 

 ures, the chemistry of development, the bot- 

 any and geology shown in the pictures, and 

 the cultural development from the study 

 of comi^osition. You can well nigh get an 

 all-i'ound education with your camera. 



Nature is the mother of us all; and any 

 means of getting a closer view of her w'ork- 

 ings should be eagerly seized. The camera 

 will fix the various phases of nature indel- 

 ibly in the mind, and be a constant source 

 of pleasure to the possessor of the memo- 

 ries of the walks in the fields, together with 

 a pride in the pictures taken. 



Awaken the spirit of observation, and 

 the world increases in interest. The weeds 

 by the roadside, with their seed-pods held 

 high above the snow in winter, furnish the 

 birds with their winter food. Stop in your 

 walk and watch them getting their dinner. 

 If your camera is along, take a picture. 

 What kind of birds are they? If you do 

 not knov.-, the work of taking the picture 

 will give an opportunity to note their 

 markings and characteristics, so that, when 

 at home, they can be looked up. 



Take a walk through the woods in the 



