Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 190
What were you photographing ? askedUncle George, with an air of innocent inquiry. «9°3-] SNAP-SHOTS. 723 Why, the lighthouse, of course. snap-shot with brains. Not too much plain fore- I am afraid you will find more grass than ground, not too much sky, not too near, not too house on your picture.… … When your film is developed you will see how very impartial the camera is. It takes grass-blades just as clearly as houses. You forgot all about the grass, did nt you ? Again and again Robert tried; but every timesomething or other was wrong. At last UncleGeorge took the camera into his own hands.…
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