If you should suggest to many amateur photographers the idea of taking portraits of children, you would find that instead of meeting the suggestion with enthusiasm, they would exhibit something very much like panic. _ Yet those who have nuulo a practice of photographing children, say that not only are they more attractive subjects for photography than adults, but also that they are quite as easy to manage and arrange if they are rightly handled: they are less conscious of their looks when in front of the camera, and far more naturally graceful an dadaptable. From 3 to G years is tho best age for picture taking: then the little folks are full of imagination and fancy, and they are ns playful and unconscious as kittens. The most satisfactory place for making a picture of a child is at home, and that is where the amateur photographer lias an advantage over the professional. At the l udio all the unusual arrangements and the fact that it is a strange place, makes it hard to get a natural, and impossible to tret a lively or jolly portrait. Tho hast results are obtained by the Kodak, *or the roll films, developed in. the Kodak tank developing machine, are in every way superior to those produced in the old way. And then there's tho great convenience of no dark room being required. Everyone who photographs, or is about to take up photography, should atonce take advantage of the Imperial Camera Company's offer. The company will Send free of any charge whatever. a valuable illustrated book on photography, containing nearly 300 pages. _ This book is of the greatest assistance to the amateur in the matter of details, advice, etc., and also gives prices of all cameras and necessaries. Send today for it. A postcard will bring it you !»/ return mail, from the Imperial .Camera Company, 42 Willis streeU Wellington.—Advt. HAVE 'SOU A WEAK THROAT? If so, 'on cannot be too careful; you cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes von pore liable to another and the last is always the! hardest to cure. If you take Chamberlain's Cough Remedv at the outset you will be saved much trouble. '(For sale everywhere.— Advt. '
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 March 1910, Page 4
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368Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 March 1910, Page 4
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