CHAPTER XIV 



PHOTOGRAPHING WILD FLOWERS, CUT AND GROWING 



Considered as a means of artistic expression, 

 flowers offer a greater opportunity to the photog- 

 rapher than does any other subject in the whole 

 range of photography. They are more adaptable 

 to arrangement, and, to any one of any pretence to 

 artistic ability, they offer unlimited possibilities 

 for beautiful photographs. It is not always the 

 rarer or more gorgeous blooms that make the 

 finest subjects either, for it is often the case that 

 the commonest roadside " weed " affords material 

 from which the best picture can be made if we 

 but know how to handle it. 



There is the advantage in this work of a great 

 diversity of form and coloring, and the foliage also 

 presents much that is interesting in its almost in- 

 finite variety of shape, and tones of greens, browns, 

 and bronzes. 



But, outside of the artistic possibilities of this 

 branch of photography, it is of considerable value 

 from a scientific standpoint. 



It has been a source of wonder to me that 

 botanists do not make a greater use of the camera 



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