A Camera and Success
to experiment a few times to discover the camera’s a very small part of the business, My first "portrait" revealed a foot and trousers to the knee! Still, it can be done, and it may be that The Listener's offer of prizes for a picture may help us to discover our hidden talents for photography. Dorothy Wilding’s story is heartening, anyway. It is the story of a woman who’s famous enough to have her name borrowed-with the necessary alteration of an odd letter-by lesser artists in most capitals of the world. When _ she was still a youngster in early ‘teens picture postcards, mostly of notabilities, were every-~ where. She had an idea that she could do better. So, in her spare time she weeded gardens until she had saved £60. Then she started in-learning, experimenting, failing mostly, succeeding sometimes. That was all long ago. But to-day she is still young, dark, rather beautiful. She is Court Photographer. Her business runs into many branches. Her income is £10,000 a year. Here’s luck with your photos! it isn’t as easy as all that, is it! We’ve only
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 September 1939, Page 10
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189A Camera and Success New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 September 1939, Page 10
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