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AMATEUR PHOTO BY A. K. BOYLES. 



ONE OF MY FAVORITES. 



I have been amusing myself the last 2 

 summers by printing impressions of leaves 

 directly on sensitized paper. I select the 

 best subjects for printing by picking leaves 

 and holding them up against the sunlight. 

 This shows all the fine veining. 



Place the 

 leaves in a 

 book as you 

 gather 

 them. Wet- 

 ting will not 

 spoil them, 

 and some 

 print even 

 better after 

 being press- 

 ed, as they 

 then lie 

 closer to the 

 printing pa- 

 per. 



To print 

 them place 

 a plain glass 

 in your 

 p r i n t i n g 

 frame, lay the leaf on the glass and the 

 paper on the leaf. The leaf is the negative, 

 so the paper must be in direct contact 

 with it. If the midrib is heavy, lay cotton 

 back of the paper beside it. Fleshy leaves 

 may leak sap from the broken stem and 

 spoil the paper if the frame presses too 

 hard. 



You will have to guess at the length of 

 exposure to the sun, as few leaves can be 

 examined in the frame without displacing 

 them. You will soon learn by the appear- 

 ance of a leaf how long it will take t3 

 print. 



To insert por- 

 traits in the leaf 

 picture, place a 

 piece of black 

 paper the size 

 of the picture 

 you wish, over 

 the leaf on the 

 glass when 

 printing the leaf. 

 This will leave 

 a blank space in 

 the leaf. Before 

 toning the leaf 

 print, fit a mask 

 of black paper 

 hole cut out to expose 

 Gum the mask of black 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY A K, BOYLES 



A LITTLE FELLOW. 



paper on the negative, opposite from film, 

 with the hole in it over the part of the 

 negative you wish to print from. Lay your 

 leaf print on the negative with the blank 

 space opposite the hole in the black paper 

 and on the part of the negative you want 

 printed. If this is properly done you can 

 make some beautiful combinations. For 

 instance, insert a portrait of each member 

 of a family on the several lobes of a maple 

 leaf. One of my best prints shows our 

 old family cat looking out of a leaf. 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY A. K BOYLES. 



THE FAMILY CAT. 



over it with a 

 the blank space. 



These leaf prints, though positives, can 

 be used as negatives, and will print a 

 pure white background where the first was 

 black. Be sure to make a large collection 

 of these paper negatives, as I call them, fir 

 use next winter, as they are more durable 

 than a glass negative, and dried leaves do 

 not often print well. Be sure to lay the 

 film sides together, the paper negatives on 

 a plain glass, when printing from them. 



This is especially interesting work for 

 botanists, as a print can be made from a 

 rare or an odd leaf, and thousands of 

 copies made from the first print. When 



