Show PICTURING A SEA FIGHT bow instantaneous photography in alio art instantaneous photography has made it easy today to day for men v ta edw of to pace ships and coats under aill in a diciur but in early days bar the power of doing so correctly was limited to a few men like stanfield and capt beachy R N the difficulty of obtaining like a reliable description of a sea fight een from those who had taken part ic it vas to stanfield ery great and he told us how when planning his picture of the battle of trafalgar he applied to capt hardy for advice as to the position of the victory hardys answer being that owing to the smoke it was impossible during the height of the action to see beyond the ships alongside adding 1 I am about the worst mau you could come to for some time before that which your picture represents the victors Vic torys tiller ropes had been shot away and I 1 was bc low in the steerage attending to them and the helm and down there we knew 0 little of aliat was going on that we continued to load and firo one of glicr sarn gunn until ordered from the deck to stop because we were firing into one of ships like had as a young nian both owed of their facility and power of compos biff a subject io early training in loft but I 1 think greatly surpassed stani n eld as a and in emoi edge of naval architect lire |