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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, "OCTOBER 6th

PICTURESQUE KWANGSI.

1928.

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

CHATS ON PHOTOGRAPHY

I-HOW TO TAKE SNAPS OF MOVING OBJECTS.

THE

(By JO.W.)

critical moment,

IESE chits' art intended min- points which must be taken into your skill in snapshotting at the| ly for those anateurs who pos- consideration. sess an ordinary folding hand camera, and each of the subjects illustrated have been taken with a camera of that type.

Choose a spot where the best It is admitted that the above is light will fall job your subject and don't forget the background.

a rather, severe test, but it is nevertheless worth your time and trouble to attempt it.

Now for the viewpoint. Ris Therefore, I am going to write quite obvious that the horse will

However, there are many pleas- of the methods of photographing show the maximum amount of ing subjects in which the move- moving objects that are well movement

when he la viewed ment if oscillatory, such as a child within the scope, of a folding travelling straight nerozs the swinging in a garden, skipping," camera, with its comparatively lens, a fall side or broadside rowing, vaulting. ele. Close ob alow shutter marked up to 100th view: and he will show the corvation will show that there are second.

minimum movement when coming moments when there is practical-

Because your shutter is murked 50th and 100th you are by no

means sure that it is

1 accurate,

have seen half a Zozen identically buift shutters teal-" ed and their rond- Anga have been nind about 40 and 8 respective. ly, no two baving the same reading. And they have Pen been known to vary with sur

russive exposuICA, No diaphragm

shutter is

-

rhnnieally perfect

although the

manufacturers endeavour to make straight towards

ly

no

apparent movement at all: as at the end of the swing, o", when the is above the head in skipping and the body is in its highest position.

rope

The Mastratjou of the vaulting. sailor is good example of this arrested motion taken at the exact instant between the up and down oscillation, and as

Ke

the lens or whatever. Yet it was taken with them fibient for practical all going away, showing an end on an ordinary camera set to 100th round work.

of a second exposure, with full

The keen amateur should beard the limitations and capabilities of his camera and the smuging of moving objects will afford a gond opportunity for making compara- tive texts.

As an instance for loral icarters I would suggest a trip to Happy Valley to take a series of tratting and galloping horses on the days they are being exercised,

Your canieva is quite capable of doing

it, but there are a Tow.

View.

Endon views are not practiral - in this instance, so pinke a trial Lalf way between "end oa” and *oroadsble, na" Keep the camPTA perfectly. steady; the fen- dency will be to follow the Badgert with The viewinder. Don't

Wait till the horse is in the centre of your viewfinder then calmly press the button. Repeat this procedur». The resultant prints on careful examination will be of much value in teaching you the capability of your camera and

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THE CONFESSIONS OF GANDHI.

MARRIED AT THIRTEEN.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

has made an abiding impression on

His Chilool,

It is to be regretted (says F.,H, the life and history of his native Brown, C.I.E., in the "Review of land. Opinions of him vary from Reviews") that the autobiography the extravagant adalation of the is not generally available in the masses and the young men of West for in it, this almost legen. Was moving india to the belief that he is the dary figure reveals his doings, his "end on" directly | victim

of an inordinate intro- thoughts, his strivings, and his secret sits through the Arst 35 towards the lens spective vanity and that he lacks years of life with the freedom of the result showssfucerity, since he has stimulated St. Augustine. His childhood is no movement la degree of racë-hatred resulting the Kathiawar town of Porbander, in rioting and bloodshed wholly where his father was Dewan, of the contrary to his profession of non-mall State, gave no more than violence. Yet he has warm ad- occasionat promise of the man be mirors throughout the civilised was to become. It was best seen world, and so heute a thinker as 'n the stirrings of an uneasy con- Mr. H. A. 1. Fisher gives him a science. He was shy at school, place among the six greatest men but truthful; and, to his disadvant- of his age. To the enigma of his faze in examinations, falled to take personality and career Gandhi has the teacher's

from hint to copy given some notable clues in others. In his teens he was in- Series of autobiographieni revela luced by a friend to abandon it tions which were first published: secret the strict vegetarianism af week by week in his Gujarati paper his community as a supposed cure "Navajivan." The translator into for physical weakness and cow English has had the assistance of ardice: Hut he gave up enting. Mis Madeline Slade, daughter of įment when he found that it neces- the late Admiral Sir Edmond Slade, kitated untruthful explanations lo in inmate of Gandhi's ashram as his mother on his loss of appetite 4 devoted follower since the begin- at home. He took to smoking in sing of 1926. The autobiography serret, and stole coppers to pur- has now been published at Mr. chase cigarettes, · Pained that lack Gandhi's Press at Ahmedabad of monetary independence led them ander the title of "The Story of to such petty theft, he and his My Expericents with Truth." friend decided to commit suicide, An exclusively Indian production. They collected dhatura seeds, bat, it is bound in the khadi (homespun after taking, two or three of the Flothi on the daily "production of 'poisonous berries, they were afraid which by his followers Gandhi is to take more,' realising that it was so insistent. The frontispiece not so easy to kill themselves, us -how- the nseelig teacher clad only to think of doing so. Gandhľa Another example of end ouva lain cloth, anl with closely first object lesson in abimsa (non- snapshotting is given in the illus-shaven heal, seated on the ground, violencé and deliberate suffering

aperture, the camera resting on a stool to give steadiness..

tration of the marathon runner renching the winning post. In this case the distance between the operator and, the

stakes through which the runners would pass was carefully measured he forehand, and camera adjusted so 'as to get accurate focus, being. snapped when the runner reached | ti atakes, with open apertare and timed to 100th of a second.

HONGKONG MONUMENTS.

A FAMOUS GOVERNOR.

his Northern drive, once said that this section was the Switzerland of China, and that when thore should be proper means of trans- portation this beruty-spot would attract many tourists and visitors..

for the wrong doings of others)spired the torture of soparation. was from his invalid father when from my father during he last Gandhi handed him a written moments. Ieliould have been maa- confession of having stolen goldsaging him, and he would have from the armlet of an elder died in my arms.” brother. His father showed deep distress, but said not a single word to him of rebuke or remonstrance. Married at 13.

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The sex problem has a spicuous place in these pages, Mr. and Mrs. Gandhi were married at the age of 13, partly because

An English Gentleman. A noteworthy feature of Gandhi's student days in London was his effort to become "an English gentleman." He bought a chimney pot hat, spent £10 on an evening dress suit made in Bond. street, and induced his brother to send him a gold double watch- chain. One of his confessions is that each morning he spent 10 minutes before huge mirror ar- ranging his tie and parting his hair in the correct fashion of the day. He also took lessons in dan- ging, French, and elocation, and stent money lening to play the violin in the vain effort to cultivate on car for Western music.

MUSIC AT HOME

By SI LANDON RONALD]

I wonder if it is realized by the- general public what a very serious state the muste publishing trade is in. I cannot help believing that if it were brought home to them in some definite way, that more support for what is termed "Sheet Music" would be forthcom- ing..

The sale of songs alone has de- creased during the last ten years by considerably over 50 per cent, with the result that several great firms, instead of, showing big proâts, find it very difficult to make one of his elder brothers was to be both ends meet, and others have married und his parents sought been compelled to close down. by the double ceremony to limit The reasous, of course, are not far the crippling outlay on wedding to seek. The gramophone, wire. innocent children all unwittingly dancing, have literally ousted festivities in a Hindu home. Two less, joy-riding, and above all hurled themselves into the ocean music out of the home. Papa la no of life" Gandhi describes hint-

longer asked to perpetrate ha welf as a passionately fond · but

nautical song after dinner, and very jealous husband. "If with manima never practises the piano this devouring passion There had

because no one asks her to play. not been in me a burning aftach-

Their sons' and their daughters giant to duty, 1 should either have fallen prey to disease and pre-gramophone records or listening are far too busy playing the latest mature death, or have sunk into à burdensome existence." At 13 he spent much time, when nót að

the high school, in nursing his father in his last illuess, and to this day he deplores the uxorious. nes which led to his absoned from the sick room when the end came. "I saw that if animal passion had hot blinded me I should have been.

to' a "Toppling programme on the wireless" to bother about perform- ing themselves. Nor do they wish to. On the contrary, if May did attempt to chortle a love balled, her brothers would promptly ask her to "Cut out that sob stuff. We can't play Bridge with you Hey, nonuy, nonnying." "

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The memory of one of Hongkong's most noted Governors, Sir Arthur Kennedy, is perpetuated by the above monument which stands in the Botante Gardens.

It bears a simple inscription recording the term of his office here, and the eloquent words "Erected by the People."

Sir Arthur Kennedy was Governor of the Colony from 1872 to 1877, and during those five years he won the admiration of all classes by his wise and just administration. He was given a great "send off on his departure to take up the Governorship of Queensland. He died on a mail steamer in the Red Sen while on his way Home in 1883 and as soon as the news of his death reached Hongkong a public meeting was held at which it was decided to erect a statue to his memory.

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