This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...upon the ear of the Enthusiastic Photographer! What agreeable associations are connected with our excursions in the country! How often have we wandered along the rough seashore, or climbed the breezy hill-side, or descended into the shady valley, or toiled along the rocky bed of some mountain stream, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...upon the ear of the Enthusiastic Photographer! What agreeable associations are connected with our excursions in the country! How often have we wandered along the rough seashore, or climbed the breezy hill-side, or descended into the shady valley, or toiled along the rocky bed of some mountain stream, forgetting, in the excitement of our pursuit, the burdens we carried, or the roughness of the path we trod! What delightful hours have we passed in wandering through the quiet ruins of some venerable abbey, impressing, with wondrous truth, upon the delicate tablets we carried, the marvellous beauty of Gothic window, of broken column, and ivy-wreathed arch! How pleasant our visits to "moss-green old churches, and picturesque cottages, and stately castles, and a thousand pretty nooks, in the shady wood, by the river-side, or in the hedge-rows, where the twining wild convolvulus, the bramble, and luxuriant fern have arrested us in our wanderings. We may have had little mishaps; some disappointments. Our ingenuity may have been exercised to find a substitute for a broken ground-glass, or the lost ring of a tripod-stand. The rustic population in bye places may possibly have misunderstood our vocation. Our mission not being clear to them, they have probably taken us for railway surveyors, electric telegraph people, sappers and miners, or, lower still, for rat-catchers, bird-fanciers, or itinerant showmen. The writer of this paper has stood in the street of a small village in Yorkshire, by the side of his camera, surrounded by a numerous circle of wondering rustics, while offers of a pecuniary nature were freely made, by the small capitalists of the party, to secure a "look " at the peep-show. And, indeed, our conduct on some occasions may have very...
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