Do not be surprised if you find “stolen bits” of your photographs in the works of inferior etchers, aquarellists, and black and white draughtsmen; it pays them to steal, while it does not hurt you, for they cannot steal your “quality.”
Nature and photography.
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
Sun and shadows.
The sun when near the horizon gives longer shadows than when near the zenith.
Photography and art.
When writers tell you photography is one thing and art another, find out who they are, and you shall find their opinion on art-matters is contemptible, and it is only their omniscient impudence and fanaticism that allow them to contradict a sculptor like Adam Salomon, and a painter like T. F. Goodall, to say nothing of others.
Clearness.
The shallow public like “clearness,” they like to see the veins in the grass-blade and the scales on the butterfly’s wing, for does it not remind them of the powerful vision of their periscopic ancestors—the Saurians.
Japers at photography.