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HOW TO CATCH CLOUDS.
| 7th. | About |
| 11th. | this |
| 14th. | time |
| 17th. | look |
| 21st. | out |
| 28th. | for |
| 31st. | storms. |
This was usually the weather warning in the old-time almanacs which the farmer was in the habit of consulting nightly, in order to make his plans for his haying or harvesting, his sowing or reaping, the success of which depended on the state of the weather.
The amateur photographer who makes a specialty of landscapes should put this warning in his note-book, substituting the word clouds for that of storms, changing it to read, "About this time look out for clouds."
A picture of a landscape with clouds in the sky is much finer than where the sky is perfectly white, and cloud pictures themselves are very interesting.
It is not an easy matter to catch the clouds even when the sky is full of them. If they are obtained in the negative, they are usually lost in the printing, as the landscape portion of the negative, being less dense than the sky, prints much more quickly, and to obtain a print of the clouds the lines of the landscape would be almost black from over-printing.
PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN THE TYROL, SHOWING CLOUD EFFECT.