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RECREATION, 



pictures, so they be timely. They must 

 illustrate some current event and reach the 

 office in time to be used at once, if not 

 sooner ! Get a good shot at a fire, a col- 

 lapsed 'building, a storm track, a runaway, 

 or some person prominently before the pub- 

 lic; rush development; dry with alcohol, 

 print on Velox or some such paper ; get it 

 to the office in time to accompany the re- 

 porter's text of the event, and you will get 

 a warm welcome and a golden reward. In 

 such pictures strive only for a sharp print 

 of the actual happening. You may not 

 consider your result high art. There is not 

 a ghost of a chance that it will be; but it is 

 business, and the question I am answering 

 is how to do business with a camera. 

 Sporting, outing, and all outdoor publica- 

 tions want pictures of hunting scenes, 

 camping, sporting events, races of all sorts, 

 fine boats, yachting, cycling, shooting, game 

 and birds, any and every form of outdoor 

 exercise and recreation. Every illustrated 

 magazine uses photos. Any of the great 

 book publishing houses will be delighted to 

 accept artistic camera illustrations of any 

 popular short story, poem, or book of 

 poems, so designed as to make a handsome 

 Christmas or gift book. For an example 

 of this work see Riley's Love Lyrics, illus- 

 trated by William B. Dyer, President of 

 the Chicago Amateurs' Club. There is lat- 

 itude wide as may be. For book illustra- 

 tions and magazine work, all the artistic 

 effect and delicate work of which you are 

 capable, and possibly more, will be required. 

 These 2 classes of work call chiefly for 

 landscapes, water studies, figures, fancy 

 heads or portrait heads. Any magazine is 

 glad to get a beautiful or interesting print 

 of a child's head, simply as a study ; or the 

 whole figure, engaged in some childish pur- 

 suit. Animal studies find ready market, es- 

 pecially those of kittens, puppies, lambs, lit- 

 tle chickens, ducks, turkeys, goslings, the 

 young of any bird or wild animal. In fact, 

 from a baby on down through the whole 

 bird and animal kingdom, anything young, 

 tender, and helpless makes instant appeal to 

 the heart. 



In preparing pictures to submit for any 

 of these purposes, avoid many accessories. 

 Make the composition of your landscapes a 

 long and thoughtful study. There is no 

 time or season that has not its pictorial as- 

 pect for the camera. If you ever hope to 

 get into the magazines or Salons you must 

 make your studies simple. Let your figure 

 study be of the figure alone, the expression, 

 pose, and drapery telling the story. Let 

 your portrait be of the face and shoulders 

 alone, unless you want the subject engaged 

 in some occupation. If you do, add only 

 the book you want read, the flower admired, 

 or the fan to occupy the hands. Wherever 

 you get a good chance, put in a hand. They 

 are so beautiful and full of expression, 



these human hands of ours ; from the wav- 

 ering baby touch down to the end of years 

 when, seamed and lined, they waver in 

 childish aimlessness once more. It is high 

 art to introduce a hand into a study. If you 

 do it right, there is as much interest to the 

 close student of art in the hand as in the 

 face. The professional photographer Bell, 

 of Sault Sainte Marie, showed me, last 

 summer, the finest study of a hand I ever 

 saw. It was the hand of an old Pottawa- 

 tomie chief. There was as much expres- 

 sion and fine lining in it as in his face. 



In using faces for studies, a speaking 

 likeness, in which the contour of the face 

 is lighted up by the life of the soul, is good, 

 whether it be that of a princess or a cook. 

 A laughing, roguish, baby face is good. So, 

 are the beautiful, quaint or cunning faces 

 of childhood ; so are the faces of youth, 

 strong in manly purpose ; or those of maid- 

 ens, showing various phases of character. 

 Middle life has its characteristics and beau- 

 ties, and the faces of age have theirs. The 

 lined, seamed faces, telling stories of a life 

 of struggle, hard work, and temptation, or 

 the calm, peaceful faces of those that have 

 sailed lightly, may be alike striking and in- 

 teresting. 



Two dollars each is the lowest price I 

 know of being paid for such photos. Five 

 is more nearly the usual thing, and $10 is 

 about right for the average. Extraordi- 

 narily good ones run up to the hundred 

 mark, and over. - 



All scientific journals want pictures of in- 

 ventors, their homes, pursuits, machinery, 

 and scientific appliances. All religious pub- 

 lications want pictures of prominent church 

 workers, officials, philanthropists, mission- 

 aries, the scenes of their work, and scenes 

 described in Bible history. The way to find 

 an opening along any of these lines is to 

 go to the magazine and newspaper stalls 

 and carefully examine the class of work 

 that is accepted by the editor of the publi- 

 cation to which you think of sending. Al- 

 ways bear in mind the fact that your pic- 

 tures will not be judged by a committee 

 of artists, looking for composition, atmo- 

 sphere and tonality, but by an editor, in. 

 whose breast they must strike the chords 

 of suitability, timeliness, and newness. 





ON COLORING LANTERN SLIDES. 



It is a curious fact that, though thou- 

 sands of slides are shown through the 

 lantern annually, over 50 per cent, of them 

 are harshly outlined in black and white, 

 when a little extra time bestowed on each 

 slide would enhance its beauty beyond 

 conception. 



Among the best developers for slides 

 that are to be colored that used as the 

 standard formula of the New York Cam- 

 era Club ranks high. The stock solution 

 is made up of 



