THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 1 75 



REPORT OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION. 



Read at the Annual Meeting, May 7tli, 1896. 

 BY J. M. EASTWOOD. 



Interest in amateur photography in Hamilton has greatly 

 increased during the past year. The study of the photographic art 

 has been encouraged, and the educational advantages offered by the 

 Hamilton Association have been brought to the favorable notice of 

 the public. There are now forty-one names on our roll. Nine have 

 been added to the membership during the past year, and two have 

 withdrawn. The Section mourns the loss of one of its active mem- 

 bers, Mr. Walter Chapman, whose death by drowning while bathing 

 in Hamilton Bay is a sad loss to the Hamilton Association of which 

 he was a valued member. 



No club outings were held during the year. Demonstrations on 

 lantern slide making were given by Messrs. Moodie and Baker. A 

 professional treatment of Aristo platino paper by Mr. Weed, at the 

 studio of Mr. C. S. Cochran, was of much interest to the large 

 number of members who were present. 



Practical addresses have been given by the Honorary Adviser 

 of the Club, Mr. A. M. Cunningham, and also by Mr. S. John 

 Ireland, principal of the Hamilton Art School, whose advice on 

 "Composition of a picture" was instructive and profitable to all the 

 members of the Camera Section. 



At the Club Competition, held in June '95, very creditable work 

 was exhibited by the members, and prizes of dry plates, supplied by 

 the makers by favor of Messrs. Cochran and Cunningham, were 

 awarded for the best prints. The members and their friends have 

 had the pleasure of seeing the prize set of slides of the " American 

 Photographic Journal,'' the American interchange set of the Chicago, 

 Buffalo and Bethlehem, Pa,, Clubs, by special favor of Mr. F. C. 

 Beach, New York, and the Rau professional set of foreign views 



