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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9993, 14 March 1910, Page 5

If you should suggest to any amateur photographers the idea of taking portra'ts 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 made a practice of photographing children, say that not only are they more attractive subjects for photography than adult?, but g'so they are quite as easy to manage and arrange if tney are tightly handled; they are less conscious of their loo'js when in front of the came>a, tind far more naturally graceful and adaptable, From 3 to 6 years is the bpst age for picture taking, then little folks '•re full of imagination and fancy, ami thoy are as 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 has an advantage over the professional- At the studio all the usual arrangements, and the fact that it is a strange place, makes it hard to get a natural, and impossible to get a lively or jolly portrait. The best results are obtained'by the Kodak, for the roll films, developed in the Kodak Tank JDevelop insr ilachine are in every way superior to those produced in the old way. And then there's the great convenience of no dark room being required. Everyone who photographs or is about to take up photography should at ome take advantage of the Imperial Camera Co.'s oiler; The Co. will send FBEE 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. SEN D TO. DAY for it. A postcard will bring it to you by retara mail, from the Imperial Camera Co, 42 Willis-street, Wellington