NATURE AS A PHOTOGRAPHER.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 55, 15 June 1908, Page 2

NATURE AS A PHOTOGRAPHER.

While the recent storm in Sydney was at its height a remarkable incident occurred in the backyard of a Lewisham resident. A sheet was hanging on th© domestic clothes line in close proximity to a shrub. When the fall of rain commenced it was intended to take the sheet indoors, but, possibly owing to the free manner in which lightning waa flashing all over the looality, the members of the household changed their mind. Little rain fell afc Lewisham, as it happened, but the storm made up for this deficiency by distributing an unusually large quantity of electrical disturbance over the premises. In fact, for a few minutes the quiet backyard seemed to be the centre of a pyrotechnic display. At last the air cleared, and a dash was made for the linen against any further downpour. To the housewife's astonishment, instead of the plain white sheet she had left there fluttered on the line what appeared to be the covering of a Japanese screen designed by Borne master hand. The whole area of the sheet was covered with delicately traced grey lines, depicting with the utmost accuracy a mass of foliage and presenting a highly decorative effect, resembling high-class stencil work. When the shock of the discovery passed away, the members of the household set out to reconcile effect and cause, and found that the shrub adjacent to the clothei line had been burnt to a crisp, brown mass, evidently through a Btroke of lightning. The sheet is to be framed and preserved in the family archives.