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Photography and fine art (1918)

Bailey, Henry Turner, 1865-1931 · Worcester, Mass., The Davis press · leaf 75

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71 THE SUBJECT IN PLACE clearing in a New England wood. It was loaded with bright red berries, which ought, I knew, to come out dark and snappy in the print. I tried it over and over again, always with the same dis- appointing result. The tree would not come away from its back- … PLATE L. “THE FAIRY DWELLING.” BY W. C. BAKER. ground of other trees. At last, one densely foggy morning it occurred to me to try once more. The fog did the trick. The woods appeared as a soft gray background against which the sparkling holly stood out bravely. Plate l, the “Fairy Dwelling,” from a…

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