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picture than the first. The house at the left is balanced 

 by the road leading to the right, but as no particular 

 object of interest is shown at the right the picture has 

 poor composition. In the third picture the garden path 

 with its border of shrubs and flowers leads you un- 

 consciously right to the door of the house. There is 

 balance of strong light and strong dark with intermedi- 

 ate tones as well. By making a study of photographs 

 you can easily learn what it is that gives them artistic 

 value. Photography gives us a new interest in that 

 We can picture for all time birds, wild animals, and our 



Explain why the image is inverted. 



favorite haunts in nature. We can make mementoes of 

 good times together with our friends, and what makes 

 a better Christmas present than a card which brings up 

 some pleasant memory of summer doings ? You can use 

 photographs to illustrate your science notebooks instead 

 of drawings, if you so desire, and many a boy and girl 

 have made the cost of the camera several times over by 

 taking photographs and selling them. 



A pinhole camera. The simplest camera is one which 

 any ten-year-old boy or girl can easily make. It is a box 

 of any convenient size, say about five inches square and 

 three inches deep. It must have a cover which slides 

 down over the box for a depth of at least one inch. The 



