PHOTOGRAPHY. An Advantage that Comes of Being An Amateur Photographer.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 396, 24 August 1889, Page 6

PHOTOGRAPHY. An Advantage that Comes of Being An Amateur Photographer.

' i find one advantage * that comes from being an amateur photographer,' sajjd a friend to me a few days ago,' • and that is that almost any youn°j woman will let you take her picture and think it great fun to be taken in various poses and attitudes, and she'll think nothing of it, but she'd slap your face for you if you asked her to give a picture. Now to-day a lady who lives at the Back Bay introduced me to her New York cousin who was here for a short visit, and they were both mighty handsome girls. After walking 'through the Public Garden ib occurred to me that I would very much like to have their pictures, especially that of the New Yorker, and I invited them down to the Camera Club to see the display there. They readily consented, and when we arrived there I laughingly suggested that I take their pictures. They demurred, of course, at first, but consented without much urging, and when they became interested they permitted me to take four negatives: I felt as if I had 'been amply repaid for all my time, trouble and expense in acquiring the art of photography just by being able to secure the picture of chat damsel, who was, I believe, the handsomest girl I have seen. I should never have been able to have plucked up courage enough to ask for a cabinet portrait, and even if I had gotten over my bashfulness sufficiently to have asked I don't suppose she would have, given it. She would have put me off, perhaps, with some empi-y promise,*, if, indeed, she had not given me a point-blank, refusal. But, oh, certainly, I could take her pictures, for that was just; lovely you know, and that was only fun, and I was an amateur. And so I secured the vision of loveliness, which otherwise might perhaps have flitted from my sight for ever and been but a memory and a dream. ' You would be surprised to know how great a number of young women there are among the enthusiastic manipulators of the camera. Many of the wealthiest young ladies in the Back Bay have taken up the craze, and with the fine artistic tastes of the feminine mind they have produced many of the finest specimens of photography. — W. F. Murray, in the Lowell 'Critic' *