AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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Storm," taken near Mexico City, had se- 

 cured a fine atmospheric effect. 



The best picture of Clarence H. White, 

 member of Committee of Selection, of 

 Newark, Ohio, and one of the gems of the 

 Salon, "Ring Toss," was ' sold to Mr. 

 Steiglitz. 



"The Loving Cup," by Frederick J. Von 

 Rapp, of Philadelphia, was a fine study. 

 The subject was a common, every-day 

 woman, in ordinary clothes, but so nat- 

 urally and gracefully posed as to destroy 

 all effect of pose, which is the height of 

 art. 



In all the mass of foreign faces, figures, 

 backgrounds and drapery, when one found 

 an American woman, the eye clung to her 

 lovingly, as in the picture of Mathilde 

 Weil, of Philadelphia, "The Embroidery 

 Frame." She was such a nice, every-day 

 girl, and so admirably posed it was a pity 

 the values were not better. 



"The Coke Burner," by John G. Bul- 

 lock, of Philadelphia, was one of the most 

 popular pictures in the Salon. 



"The Bar Maid," by Mary R. Stanberry, 

 of Zanesville, Ohio, was another. The 

 composition and values in this picture 

 were especially good. 



A PRACTICAL CLUB. 



The Montclair (N. J.) Camera Club is 

 a prosperous and growing organization. 

 It has a large membership composed of 

 the best people in that enterprising town 

 and the best equipped club rooms I have 

 ever seen, outside of a few of the large 

 cities. 



Here is an extract from a circular the 

 club sends out that contains many valua- 

 ble suggestions for other camera clubs : 

 "It costs $12 a year for membership. 

 What do I get for my money?" 



You get that association with men of 

 a like ideal which affords the best 

 opportunity for growth and develop- 

 ment. By interchange of ideas, by help- 

 ful talk and criticism, by comparison 

 with others' work and observation of 

 their methods, increased knowledge and 

 improvement of one's own work are 

 easily and pleasantly attained. 



At our club rooms are all the mechan- 

 ical necessities: Dark room, acid bath, 

 washing baths, graduates, trays, place to 

 dry plates and prints and to trim and 

 mount prints, enlarging camera, with 

 arc light attachment for making lantern 

 slides and enlargements, day or evening 

 facilities for portrait work, and a good 

 selection of photographic journals. 

 Plates, printing papers and developers 

 are for sale at the club rooms. 



At the club meetings, 10th and 25th of 

 each month, talks on subjects of interest 



are given and frequent exhibitions of 

 prints and lantern slides. This club is a 

 member of the Lantern Slide Inter- 

 change, from which we receive, month- 

 ly, sets of slides showing the best ama- 

 teur work, in widely varied lines. 



At our club exhibitions and competi- 

 tions, open to all our members, our own 

 best work is shown. 



Club outings are had as opportunity 

 offers. 



Visiting and resident amateur photog- 

 raphers are cordially invited to attend 

 the meetings of the club. 

 Following is a list of the officers of the 

 club: President, J. S. Gibson; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Dr. J. S. Brown; Treasurer, W. W. 

 Ames; Secretary, Arthur Haller; Chair- 

 man House Committee, Charles R. Pratt; 

 Chairman Lantern Slide Committee, Al- 

 bert O. Miller; Chairman Membership 

 Committee, C. M. Dutcher; Chairman 

 Library Committee, Wm. S. Behr. 



A GOOD GOLD BATH. 



RED FIR. 



Dissolve 15 grains of gold in 15 ounces 

 of distilled water. Keep in a glass-stop- 

 pered bottle. Make a saturated solution of 

 bicarbonate of soda and a saturated solu- 

 tion of borax, using distilled water. Put 

 an equal quantity of both solutions in a 

 bottle. If distilled water can not be had, 

 use water that has been boiled at least 30 

 minutes, then cooled, and filtered through 

 2 thicknesses of filter paper. 



To use: Take of the gold solution the 

 number of ounces the paper you are using 

 requires of grains. Remember each ounce 

 of solution contains one grain of gold. If 

 you are using Solio, for instance, the for- 

 mula would be as follows: 



Water 47 ounces. 



Gold solution 1 ounce. 



Alkali solution 80 minim- 

 Using 80 minims for each ounce of gold 

 solution will give more uniform tones than 

 a solution gauged by the litmus paper test 

 Use distilled or boiled water for washing 

 prints while toning and after fixing, e 

 cially for the first 2 or 3 washings. 



If you make your own solutions, buy 

 your chemicals in small quantities, say 

 enough to last a month, and make up only 

 as much as you need at a time, except the 

 stock solutions. If you buy your ><>lutions 

 already prepared, buy only what you need 

 at the time and insisl on their being fresh. 

 By following this plan you will get better 

 results and the expense will be no more. 



I have used Tolidol for developing 

 plates and films, and have produced nega 

 tives superior to these from pyro. Tolidol 

 is the best for amateurs, as it doe- 

 stain the fingers. Can be made up in qnan 



