DUNEDIN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2409, 3 May 1900, Page 73

DUNEDIN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

The monthly meeting of the Dunedin Photographic Society was held on the 25th at the rooms in -Liverpool street. There was a fair attendance of members, despite the rough weather. Mr R. A. Ewing. who presided, drew attention, to the small number, of entries* in the competitions just finished, and said that unless the members took a greater interept in them the competitions would have to lapss. Mr 11. V. Lawes, of Sydney, then delivered a lecture on the making of lantern slides. Having mentioned that this was about the best way of recording photographs and of showing them, Mr Lawes gave the members of the society the benefit of his wide experience in the various processes leading- up to the completion of a good slide, and finally threw a number on the screen, and 'showed ii> what directions they could have been improved. The member*, have kindly recollections of Mr Lawes>'s previous visits and lectures, and accorded Mm a' hearty vote of thanks for the valuable instruction he had given them. Mr L.awes incidentally mentioned that the society's rooms were the best he had mot with in his travels, lot excepting even those of Sj-dney. During the evening slides of pictures taken by Messrs Williams and Melville were exhibited on the screen, and photographs taken by Mr W. Williams and others on recent holiday trips were handed round for inspection.