Photographing Wild Flowers 261 



open places. It should be photographed, how- 

 ever, in the former situation, for that is its natural 

 habitat. Nearly all plants frequently stray from 

 their natural locations, but these wanderers are 

 not the ones that should be chosen as subjects. 

 The isochromatic plate is here again a neces- 

 sity, of course, but in this work the fast one will 

 be found to be the best 

 one to use, as it gives 

 us more speed, and 

 speed is a great ob- 

 ject in out-door flower 

 photography. When 

 possible, the use of the 

 color screen is advan- 

 tageous, but this in- 

 creases the length of 

 exposure to such an 

 extent that I would 

 not advise any one to 

 attempt it except upon 

 a very still day ; for nothing is more exasperating 

 than to feel a breath of air steal up and watch it 

 sway your subjects about just in the midst of an 

 exposure, and realize that the plate is irretrievably 

 ruined and that you might as well take it out and 

 try another one. When the day is still enough 

 to allow the use of the slow plates, so much the 

 better, for they will give the best results. 



Young Skunk Cabbage. 



