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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ifty species of our wild birdsoccur here during the autumnal and vernal migrations. For many summers past we have tramped together over thismost interesting country, and the time is now near at handwhen we can commence the early spring excursions, which are,as a rule, apart from the exercise they afford, undertaken al-most wholly for the purpose of securing negatives of the trees,shrubs, and wildflowers of this region. It requires just as much skill, artistic acumen, appreciationof taste, and due attainment of scientific values to obtain desir-able photographs of any and all botanical subjects as it does ofany other living thing in the world, or of any of the works ofman. In photographing an ordinary flower, for example, thereare many things to be considered if the result is to prove em-inently successful. It will be taken for granted that the nature-photographer isequipped with everything in the way of camera, lens, and at-tachments of the best kind. Then he should be sufficiently 90
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Figure i.Illustrating article Field Botany and the Camera/ by R. W. Shufeldt, M. D. 91 familiar with general botany in order to be able to select themost desirable subjects of any species to which he intends tophotographically devote himself. Further, a knowledge oflight values, laws of perspective, various effects of differentcolors, and allied matters is wholly indispensable. Among the first flowers that appear in this locality in thespring—and it is a great favorite with everybody—is the lovelybird-foot violet ( Viola pedata). So desirous is it of enjoying thevery first warm rays of the sun in March that, in the pine andoak-woods where it is most abundant, it forces its way throughthe dry and dead leaves that fell the year before, and now covertile ground where they have kept these purple beauties warmall winter. A beautiful example of this violet is here shown in FigureI illustrating this article. I obtained it just after itsemergence from among the dead oak and chestnut leave

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