AMONGST THE PHOTOS.

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8364, 27 September 1895, Page 3

AMONGST THE PHOTOS.

The Photo. Section of .the Philosophical Institute this year are holding their annual exhibition in the Concert 'Hall of the IndusI trial Exhibition instead of the Art Gallery, i (says Ohriltoburoh ' Press ' of September i 24tb.) While it acquires, perhaps, larger i audienoes it is idle to conceal the fact that the light is iiot ut all suited to the exhibition of photos; to the best advantage. la dealing with the pictures exhibited, oourtexy demands that our vieitors shall have pride of p'aoe. Therefore the exhibits of tbote outride Canterbury are first referred to. These ocoopy the s mhern end part of the eastern wall. Nelson Oambba Club. Nelson has kng been famtd bb the home of the arts, both in painting and muaio, and in up-to-date photography the memberß of tbe Kelson Camera Olub have well kept up the lame of the Happy Valley of New Zealand. "The Ford "(No: 1), by A. J. Glasgow, is a beautiful bit of work, full of 1 vigor and completeness of detail. Mr | Thorp sends some good oopies of engravings : by ; the wet collodion process. Mr Glasgow sends a goodly number of pictures of high merit. Amongst these may be noted, an iDgeniona little picture, " Reflections, " (14), and a collection of cleverly done snap" shots (25; , Mr Pit* sends a good picture. " Sohooner Falcon " (38) and Mr A. Si Patterson has a fine series of bromide enlargements (Nob. 27, ' t 2B, and 29), cf which perhaps the beat is ' Three Chums" (28). -the work in which is excellent. Mr A. Pitt has a very excellent series of "Biver "Views " (No. 20), the oentre cng of whioh id remarkable for iS Bharpness and delicaoj of tone. Mr A. H. Fat.erson's "Toe Day is Done " (No. 33) is a lovely bit of photography. The cloud effeots arc excellent, and there is all tha de'.ioaoy of the : steel, engraving combined with the faithfulness of the photograph. " A Bush Track" (No. 35), by F. W. Thorp, and " On the Wairoa River" (No. 40;, by A. Pitt, are both worthy of speoial notice. Mr Pitt sends a frame of re-touobed outdoor photos (No. 41), which have the defect of the poses being somewhat Btilted. Mr Glasgow's piQtttfe, "Ship Hermione " (No. 1U) is well done, as is also tbe copy enlargement " A Maid of Athens " (16) by the same artist;, j The same gentleman in his studies (9) exhibits Borne remarkably good work. Tbe breaking wave In one, the ohioka clustering round the mother -hen in the-taeotfa/ aid the swans in the third, aae all moßt cleverly CmitUMlim of Kewa tee Fourth Page.

done, considering the rapidity of the picture and the brevity of ezposare. There ia a considerable proportion of pnlargementi in tbe forty-one exhibits of the Nelson Camera Club, thirty of which are bromide prints (aftyß the • Lyttelton Timeß ' of same date). A large number of life studies, many of them very pleasing, are inoluded in the oolleotion. Mr A. J. Glasgow's ' Swans," No. 5, and his series of four animal a udies No. 9, are, dear, artistio piotarea of pleaain? tone. Mr F. W. Thorp'B " Pobara, Golden Bay," No 17, is a really fin* thing, and much of his other work ij highly creditable. Mr A. H. Patterson Bhows, in No 33, one of the most effeotive evening landscapes in the exhibition. His " Incantation "No 11, a very pleasing groap of ohildren at play, is admirably composed, toft in t-me, and thoroaghly artistic. No 28, "Three Chums," two little girls and a dog, is also pleasing and artistio. but faded. Among tbe beat Bpeoimena of Mr A. Pitt's work ib No 38, "The Schooner Falcon," whioh almost resembles an engraving in tone and general appearance. No 40, " On the Wairoa River," a bromide enlargement, is a fine pieoe of landscape wort.