LANDSCAPE TYPES—THE BROOK 
Example 
To illustrate this method of landscape study let us consider 
the brook. The accompanying photographs, with several others, 
were made one October afternoon along less than half a mile of a 
small pasture brook in Pelham, Mass. By ranging further up and 
down stream, and especially by coming in various weathers and at 
different seasons of the year, it would be possible endlessly to mul- 
tiply pictures of this same brook. 
Preliminary study of the problem in hand may begin with these 
pictures of the Pelham brook. Let the student answer to himself 
such questions as these: Are you quite clear that this brook presents 
a beautiful element in the landscape? Would you yourself enjoy 
visiting it? Have you ever seen such brooks? Did they give you 
any personal delight? Have you seen other brooks of different 
character? Were they more or less beautiful than this? How 
would this brook look in early spring? in winter? Would it be 
more pleasing at any other season of the year? Do the photographs 
here shown satisfy you as an exposition of the brook, or do they seem 
to undervalue the brook as seen in nature? Might certain of these 
pictures have been improved by changing the point of view, by: 
showing more background or more foreground, by different lighting, 
or in any other way? 
Remark: It will be observed that evey one of these pictures 
includes a human figure. This must not be regarded as an imper- 
tinence, nor must these figures seem to draw attention away from 
the brook. There are two very clear reasons for introducing these 
human figures here. The first is that they give scale to the pic- 
tures. The second is that in landscape gardening the landscape has 
no significance whatever except in its relation to human life. This 
is a principle of the most fundamental purport, and one upon which 
the student should reflect often. 
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