PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION PRIZE PHOTOS

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume III, 1 October 1900, Page 80

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION PRIZE PHOTOS

their photos, taken. The shadow of the bridge and the sunlight on the quiet, rippling water have been happily

caught,

The other scene represents that ocean in one of its wildest aspects. Roller after roller dashing with relentless force on the stern barrier, and being hurled off the bold front of the rock in masses of seething spray, yet ever gathering up its broken forces and returning 1 to the fruitless attack with renewed energy and unabated vigour. One can almost hear the loud roar of the first contact, followed by the shriek-

ing lash of the falling waters as they strike the rock after being hurled in the air. There is nothing more invigorating than a brisk walk along a fine stretch of beach in the teeth of the whistling, brineladen wind, which

produces such a grand scene as the one before- us. One feels a fierce delight in being not only a witness, but a prominent actor in the war of raging elements. Want of space prevents us reproducing more than one of the New Zealand beauties, but the others will appear in next month's issue of the Magazine.