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August 31, 1883.] 547 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS SITTING FOR A PHOTOGRAPH. When photography was young, and the mind of man not We have already spoken of the Morteratsch glacier. Another not less delightful glacier is the Roseg, which appears but a quarter of an hour’s stroll from 'the Hotel Roseg at Pontresina, the ice-crystals sweeping down into the dark pine wood that fronts this comfortable hostelry. But let not the tourist photographer be deceived, as we were ourselves on the occasion of our first visit. It is a then, when the plate is further exposed ; but in that case, as we have found to our cost, the figures are not less un canny, for they are frequently unsubstantial personages, with the angle of an ice-block showing through the body. You may walk to the Bernina hospice on the top of the Bernina Pass, and pay a visit to Italy by making a day’s excursion from Pontresina. The road is a good one, and seen hereabouts are for the most part the property of rich families who have made their money abroad, and princi pally in England. The Italian and Italian-Swiss waiters, restaurant keepers, and hotel proprietors to be met with far from their own land, come from this district. The family of Gatti, well known in London as the proprietors of the Adelaide Gallery, the Adelphi Theatre, &c., may be cited as an example of what we mean ; and when these hardworking business-like people have made a fortune, they generally go back to their native place to enjoy it. The consequence is the district, besides its natural charms, is thriving and well-to-do, and has all the appearance of smiling prosperity. Celerina, with its elegant church of white stone nestling in a casket of green foliage, makes a charming little photo graph, and the same may be said of Samaden village. This latter lies rather low in the marsh land, so that as a stopping place it is not to be commended ; still there is at least one good hotel in the village at which you may be made comfortable. obliged to abandon the subject altogether, because under crystalline snow deposited upon the frozen masses ; and in the circumstances a favourable view was impossible. preserving these characteristics of the scene, your figures There is a good hotel at Silvaplana, while at St. Moritz, go. by the board. In most cases, the result is a couple of three or four first-class hostelries are to be found. Many chimney sweeps where your friend and the guide have visitors winter in the Engadine, making St. Moritz their been, and they stand against the frozen scene like black head-quarters; and the lakes which freeze early in the paper silhonhettes, cut out sharply with a pair of scissors, season afford capital opportunities for skating and sleighing. A better result is obtained by capping your lens when half There is quite an English colony every year, and the air is exposed, and allowing your models to take up a position so dry and the climate so uniform that consumptive patients *he" "hen the "lete i" r.._n 3 ht "i are frequently tempted to try it as a winter abode. This portion of the valley, too, the Sils and Silvaplana district, as also that portion below the Maloja pass, has another interest. The fine chalets and dwellings to be passes the wildest of mountain scenery, with glimpses of fine snow peaks close at hand. A photograph of the winding road near the top of the pass, with just a forlorn bush here and there to mark its loneliness, and big weird boulders covered with yellow lichen to tell of the cold in hospitable climate, affords a lively reminiscence of this part of the world, where desolation reigns supreme. We climbed this road, we remember, with two ladies, who were anxious to get a glimpse of Italy, and had heard our i remark at the table d’hote that you could walk there and back in a day from Pontresina. We passed the Bernina after a fatiguing march, and descended the wild and weird region of rock and boulder, scrub and lichen, that succeeds the pass. “ There, that is Italy 1 ” we said, pointing afar to the boundary stone. No sunny vineyards, no olive groves, no blue lakes, no fragrant blossoms — only the same bare mountain side, the same half-starved tree trunks crippled by the cold blast, the same marshy ground and grey boulders. Our lady friends, we recollect, were much disappointed at this, their first visit, to Italy, and we set down their experi ence here as a warning to those who may imagine that they have only to climb the Bernina to reach the sunny south. coming into a new and beautiful world, the ascending of sure, from ice melting under its feet; and since this the Maloja; and all who can make their choice about rendered the image unsharp, he advocated putting pebbles entering this lovely district would do well to elect this under each leg. With gelatine plates, and brief exposures, route. this piece of forethought is not so necessary ; still, the What a pity these silvery lakes are so difficult to render dodge is well worth bearing in mind whenever you carry in photography !* In nine cases out of ten, a sheet of white the camera upon a glacier. is all that your plate reproduces of the fair scene. Some- Another hint we may give is for the photographer to times a quiet backwater may be chosen where the shining take a pair of blue spectacles with him, if he is going on pebbles seen through the transparent water, and grass the ice or snow. A few minutes surrounded by the glow blades rising in groups above the mirror-like surface, form ing white ground may not inconvenience the eyes; but a passable foreground ; but even in this case, the landscape after this, it is almost impossible to trust them, if the sun is disposed to be flat, if the mountains or hills are at a is shining. When you take your eyes from the focussing distance. Again, in lake photography, very much depends screen and gaze about you, it is impossible to say for the upon the nature of the stand you use. Most stands are moment whether the sky is black or blue, whether the sun not sufficiently high, and when you have chosen your view, is shining, or whether you are in an azure mist. In these you find on lowering the eyes to the level of the camera, circumstances, obviously, it is no use trying to time an all the beauty of the scene has vanished. It is astonishing, exposure from a glance at the surroundings; your optical indeed, what a difference a few inches make in the matter, senses are simply not to be trusted. Wehavefrequently selected a point of view in walking, and Figures upon the ice are nearly always a failure. In when it comes to arranging the camera, from the fact that development you endeavour, of course, to retain the deli- this is some twelve inches lower than the eye, have been cate transparence of the ice-blocks, the crust of white two hours’ walk before you can set foot on one of the ice blocks, and all the way the distance is so deceptive that it seems as if every turn in the path will bring you in front . —1, « of the crystalline mass. The glacier is well worth a visit, intimate as it now is with that beautiful art, the great difficulty and if you take the camera with you you can use it with of the photographer was to persuade clients that the process bore advantage. Sometimes a grand cloud mass is to be seen no resemblance to the operation of having a tooth drawn. One rolling over these glaciers, that makes a capital picture; may conceive that it took some trouble to undeceive people in n L° . 1‘ . f • 11 E. L + 13 that respect. The camera became an alarming object when the found tW:ay ofiforeground, a pile of ice-blocks is sure to be artist trew a black cloth over his head and converted himself, fou d, 2 1-transparent character adding a charac - as it were, into one large glass eye. The patient was told not to . tic beauty to the subject, borne time ago Mr. England, move—a terrifying injunction. He was earnestly entreated not who has, perhaps, more experience of Alpine photography to wink, and the result was the tears instantly flowed into his than most of us, called attention to the fact that the eyes until the ciaving for winking became a madness. His head camera tripod is apt to yield during the period of expo-1 was fixed in an engine designed to steady it, but which in reality
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