PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION PRIZE PHOTOS.

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 12, 1 September 1900, Page 963

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION PRIZE PHOTOS.

We announced in our last number that some of the prizewinning photos in our Photographic Competition would be reproduced in this issue. As we then stated, the first prize in the scenery class had to be divided between Miss Amy Holland, of Auckland, and Mr. A. Gill, of Palmerston South, Otago. We give here specimens of their work. The bush peeps on the Nihotapu Stream are well chosen, and very nicely executed. They are typical bits of JSTew Zealand bush scenery — charming nooks and corners, which the prosaic individual lives a lifetime without discovering. Glancing at one of these photos, one realizes the joy and delight of wiling away a summer day under the shade of a waving tree fern, listening to the murmuring music of the stream, the splash of the fall,

Miss Amy Holland,

Missl Amy Holland,

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the merry songs of birds, and busy hum of insect life. Fancy for one moment the delight of being transferred suddenly from the uneasy office chair to that moss - cushioned trunk which spans the JNTihotapu Stream, to sit in the cool shade with feet swinging over the gurgling stream, dreaming of anything but business. On another page are two more

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of Miss Holland's photos, " A Pall on Nihotapu Stream," and " The Island, Island Bay." The specimens of M> A. Grill's work are two scenes, which show a decided contrast — one," The Waves Breaking," speaks for itself, the surging rollers beating against the rugged front of the rock-bound coast. The other is " Matanaka Point, Waikouaiti, Otago ;" weirdly curious in shape is the rocky point which juts out into the ocean. The photographer wisely chose a perfectly calm sea, tlie smoothness of which brings out into stronger relief the broken nature of the rock formation. In tlie contingent class, Mr. H. H. Hooper, of Wellington, was the successful competitor. One of the scenes chosen was His Excellency lord Ranfurly reviewing the second contingent in Wellington Park, with Colonel Penton on horseback by the side of the carriage. The other represents a

Miss Amy Holland,

Miss Amy Holland,

Auckland,

Auckland,

rear view of a line of the second contingent, with Serjeant - Major Crosbie, of Canterbury, in the foreground on a fine charger, given as a "good type of horse and man," and they serve the purpose excellently. In the first of these photos of incidents connected with our New Zealand Troops preparing for or leaving for service in South

Africa (which class, by the way, was not nearly so well contested as we expected), the mosj loyal artist has given much more prominence to the vice-regal carriage and its occupants than to the troops under review. There is a delightfully careless abandon about the- 1 attitudes of the whole party, Colonel PolePenton included, which makes the snapshot so infinitely more pleasing than the regular photo, where everyone has the unnatural look of con-

sciousness that one is having one's photo taken, and must, act up to the occasion. In the second photo Major Grosbie's horse is certainlya stamp of animal thatisbynomeans too plentiful here. Look at his substance,

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his bone, his alert well-set head, arched crest, grand^ barrel and magnificent quarter. Look at the shortness of the joints below knee and hock which proclaim the powerful, easy mover. The rider, needs no such category of his points, his qualities are well Known. In our

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next number we shall give some more of the prizewinning photographs. The New Zealand Beauties have yet to appear, as well as an other selection of the New Zealand Scenery plass. In this Class we. regret that our Mountains and Lakes were conspicuous by their absence.