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RECREATION. 



Deer Park. E. J- Stow. 



A Disputed Point, H. D. Schermerhorn. 



The Start, G. H. Meek. 



Wonderland, an Appreciation, F. Bryne Ivy. 



Tillie, with -a Gun, Dr. J. B. Pardoe. 



Tillie Catching Minnows, Dr. J. B. Pardoe. 



Sea Girt, N. J., F. L. Wilcox. 



I have decided to give each person whose 

 work was commended a year's subscription 

 to Recreation. I trust this may prove 

 satisfactory to many who would otherwise 

 have felt disappointed at not winning a 

 prize and that all who competed in this 

 contest may try again next year. 



ENLARGING BY DAYLIGHT. 



Notwithstanding the variability in the in- 

 tensity of daylight, it has one great ad- 

 vantage over all artificial lighting; at any 

 rate during the summer months, when the 

 intensity is fairly constant a few hours in 

 the middle of the day. With artificial illu- 

 mination, one must always employ either 

 condensors or elaborate methods of equal- 

 izing the light over the negatives from 

 which the enlargement is to be made, by 

 means of diffusers or translucent screens, 

 which cut down the power of the illumi- 

 nant to an enormous extent. As against 

 these, daylight means speedy and inexpen- 

 sive work, as well as a quality of enlarge- 

 ment such as no form of artificial light 

 can yield unless it be the arc light and 

 diffusers, says Photography, of London. 



Focusing, when working with daylight, 

 has, of course, to be done with as much 

 care as when using artificial light. 



With lenses of the most modern types, 

 it will be found in many cases that the fo- 

 cus alters appreciably with an alteration in 

 the stop. Focusing then becomes a more 

 difficult operation than it otherwise would 

 be, and must invariably be carried out with 

 the stop which it is proposed to employ. 



The most convenient arrangement for 

 daylight work when the enlargements are 

 not to be of excessive size will be found 

 that which takes the form of a long box, 

 having the lens fitted in the center of a 

 septum capable of being slid toward either 

 end of the box. The negative holder may 

 be permanently fixed, the lens and the other 

 end of the apparatus being adjustable, but 

 to work under the most convenient condi- 

 tions it will be found better to make the 

 negative holder capable of adjustment also. 

 In fact, focusing can be more easily done 

 from that end than from the other. If it 

 is proposed to make the apparatus virtually 

 a fixed focus camera for enlarging, a con- 

 venient type for the amateur, then the re- 

 spective distances of the 2 ends from the 

 lenses should first be found by calculation. 

 When once the negative holder and the 

 screen are placed therein, fine focusing may 

 be effected by means of a magnifier until 

 the greatest degree of definition is at- 

 tained. 



To do this final focusing once for all and 

 with the greatest accuracy, a piece of plain 

 glass may be substituted for the negative, 

 and in place of the sensitive paper a sheet 

 of printed matter. By focusing this printed 

 matter on the glass and using an eyepiece, 

 extremely sharp definition may be obtained. 

 It is more difficult to focus an enlarged 

 image of the negative sharply on the screen 

 than it is to focus a reduced image on a 

 piece of plain glass placed where the neg- 

 ative is to be. 



If the focusing is to be done on the en- 

 larging board on a sheet of white paper or 

 card, an eyepiece is not required, and, in- 

 deed, can not be used. I watched a 

 photographer focusing a negative for en- 

 larging a few weeks ago, and noted an ele- 

 mentary point which he overlooked at a 

 cost of some 10 minutes of his time. Do 

 what he could, the enlargement would not 

 come sharp. An examination of the nega- 

 tive showed it was itself slightly blurred ; 

 not noticeably so in the ordinary way, but 

 plainly enough when magnified on the 

 screen. 



One other point is often disregarded. 

 When enlarging straight into a darkened 

 room by daylight, there should be nothing 

 of a light color near the sensitive paper or 

 between it and the lens. If there is, the 

 light reflected from the surface of the bro- 

 mide paper will be reflected back on to it, 

 and the whites are sure to be to some ex- 

 tent degraded. — Camera and Dark Room. 



HOW SOME PRIZE WINNERS ARE MADE. 



Maiden, Mass. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I send you 2 prints of a photograph en- 

 titled "Three Virginia Deer." It was taken 

 with an Eastman Kodak on a New York 

 plate. The lens was one that was fur- 

 nished by the Eastman Company. The 

 photo was a snap shot ; but I do not remem- 

 ber the length of the exposure. These 

 prints are made on platinum paper. 



This photograph was taken on Ellis pond, 

 Somerset county, Maine, in September, 

 1899. My brother and I, with a guide, 

 stayed there 3 months during the summer. 

 Deer and moose were numerous and we 

 tried many times during our stay to get 

 some pictures of them, but this one is the 

 only satisfactory plate we secured, on ac- 

 count of poor light or because, the deer 

 were frightened before we could get near 

 enough to take a photograph. 



The morning we took this photograph 

 we had an early breakfast, as our guide was 

 obliged to go to the settlement, 11 miles 

 away. After he had started we were sit- 

 ting on the piazza of our camp, when I 

 thought I saw something across the lake, 

 about a mile distant. When I examined 

 it with a glass it proved to be a group of 



