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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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roughwhich they so suddenly made their emergence (Figure 3). Even more glorious than this are they when, in the depthsof the woods, they grow upon a blackish soil, in an area undis-puted by any other plant beyond, perhaps, some very earlyskunks cabbage, or the big curl-crown of a fern or two.Later, when it flowers, and the plant remains uninjured andperfect, few growths can vie with it in the matter of its peculiarattractiveness. I have photographed it at this stage a numberof times, obtaining very pleasing, not to say useful pictures,which it is my intention to publish later on. Very soon after the May apples put in an appearance, theDogwoods (Cornus florida) come out with their superb pro-fusion of white or pinkish-white, large, showy flowers, which,with good eyes and from favorable viewpoints, may often beseen through the woods at long distances. I have somebeautiful negatives of the flowers of this tree, but none ofthem can exceed in beauty the example illustrating this article 94
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Figure 3. Illustrating article Field Botany and the Camera, by R. W. Shufeldt, M. D. 95 (Figure 4). Hundreds of flowers were upon this particulartree, which grew in the woods not far from Thrifton Stationin northern Virginia. The lower limbs were not much overeight feet above the ground, and in order to get the pictureI did—that is, so many flowers in the one plane—my wifekindly held down a limb for me, after I had gently bent it intothe vertical plane. The exposure was made, with a very smallstop, in about five seconds, whereupon the limb was released,and it sprang back into its natural position just as thoughnothing had happened. Nearly twenty-five years ago I photo-graphed a full-size dogwood blossom with a fine, old bumble-bee resting upon it. This illustrates one of my early books,and the negative, serviceable as ever, still forms a part of mycollection of botanical series. Fortunately for me, my wife is extremely fond of the almostdaily excursions we make together into the s

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