Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer (1933)

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January 4th, 1933 ih[ amateur photographer ta 6 CINEMATOGRAPHER a for Winter Photography its surface and transparency alike exquisite, its light and shade of in¬ exhaustible variety and inimitable finish, and the shadows, sharp, pale, and of heavenly colour, the reflected lights intense and multi¬ tudinous, and mingled with the sweet .occurrences of transmitted light. No mortal hand can approach the majesty or loveliness of it, yet it is possible, by care and skill, at least to suggest the preciousness of Reflections. cannot but be struck with the many lovely effects due to reflections from wet wintry streets, and from many other things in nature. There are certain days in winter when the charm of a landscape does not he in the accurate rendering of details, but in the expression of the delicate tones of atmosphere, when nature is partly hidden, as it were, behind a veh. It is in the rendering of these deeper and more subtle effects that the pictorial worker finds his greate.st opportunities. The Snow Mantle, its forms and intimate the nature of its light and shade.” The camera will, if properly used, record this inimitable beauty with a fidelity unattainable by any other means. Another subject of great charm in the winter months is the tracery of tree forms, which give opportunities for artistic arrangements of line and beautiful decorative designs. You will sometimes come upon drooping branches, which, when seen against the sky, are so subtle and lovely that the mind of a Japanese alone could select and express their beauty. Then there is inexhaustible pictorial re¬ source in the play of light and shade on the many beautiful textured barks of the tree trunks. . , Passing on to other subjects, one The Farm Road in Winter. 1 1 7