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Show ID1110 SCENES J FR0I1 A CAKEPail Artistic Wcrk of Boise J Photcrcpher Excites favcrc.le Ccament. A feast for the eyes of a beauty-hunter beauty-hunter was received by Fisher Harris, secretary of the Commercial club, from one Myers of Boise, Ida., yesterday. It la a thin book, 15 by IS inches, and thick as a lady's anger. It Is bound ' In black limp leather, the leaves are deckel-edged photo mountings, and the scenic reproductions are called "Some Scenic Gems from Idaho, or some such appropriate name. Inside are a dosen of the most appealing ap-pealing of Idaho's grandest, scenery, transferred from the dry -plate of the camera to the sensitised paper. Myers has not gone out and simply napped his shutter. He has waited for the right kind of a day and the right time of the day In order to seise upon the subject and transfix it with -the light just when it was at its moat impressive period. There la a softness, a delicacy, a tone and artistic treat- -ment of each subject that stamps the ' man with the camera an artist. His treatment of lights and shades, his ability to get contrasty" effects In simple black and white, amounts to genius. So soft and velvety are the shadings that It is with difficulty one can be brought to realise that browns . and yellows and ochres are not spread " on in water color. Those who have seen the dosen subjects sub-jects pronounce them the finest effort they have ever seen In the camera line. They are intended to create an ardent desire in the looker-on to "See America First." and as soon as possible. Some of the subjects are the Magpie falls. Lake Pend d'Orellle. Redflsh lake Morning, Sheep Eaters' .Monuments Pettit lake, Monument creek. HeJl's Half-Acre, the Styx (Snake riverV Snake River canyon. Teton mountain and Sawtooth mountains. ' |