| Show BO davi v how a flower behaves at the moment ot of its birth INTER ISLAND AIRWAYS AIR WAYS 0 VE 11 MAUI IL 1 I T often n that I 1 corner a I 1 victim where lie he cant escape out of honolulu destination the island of alabu second largest in the hawaiian group I 1 reached the airport just in time to scramble into the tail pit and talce take the last seat scat across from me sat a roly poly red faced man with sky blue ebes and a contagious smile no sooner had we slipped from the earth than he began to fuss with a sixteen millimeter motion picture camera another nut thought 1 I why pictures of the sea blue dont photograph well anyhow presently I 1 d discovered covered is that he was supplied with films for taking natural color that settled it he must be a millionaire gone daffy over the rainbow racket they come high these technicolor experiments I 1 remarked very especially if you dont know what youre doing he replied tumbling fumbling around in his upper vest pocket from which he resurrected a card that he passed over to me ive s sort ort of gotten by that that phase of photography business with me now lord of the lens I 1 glanced at the bristol arthur C pillsbury luckily for me here two thousand feet in the air unprotected one might say and no place to go was the wizard who had with his camera juggled the spectrum and given the laugh to the fourth dimension A naturalist scientist inventor explorer and lord of the lens with his camera he made explorations in plant and animal life that place him among the eminent fate had delivered him into my hands sorry mr pillsbury I 1 said but youre the man I 1 cave have long wished to talk with about what he asked continuing his manipulation of the camera flower photography oh yes ive heard your lecture but there is another phase not entirely photographic which you alone can explain and that is the resemblance that flowers bear to human beings particularly in their behavior when they are in the act of blossoming bloss oming I 1 more frequently perhaps than any ot other her man you have witnessed th this hi miracle iracle ly ask your questions I 1 wi will rep reply 1 to the best of my knowle knowledge d ge name the most heroic the most modest the most flirtatious the most deliberate the most majestic flowers that you have observed through the camera up forward on a sixteen passenger plane the propellers make considerable noise luckily for me cut down 60 per cent in the tail I 1 seats mr pillsbury came across I 1 per cent tiger tier lily Is bombastic if yo you want to put it that way the most heroic or the most bombastic perhaps would suit better the tiger lily heads the list he said when it is ready to come forth there is a visible straining of the petals all of which cling together from base to tip in the struggle they split down the sides but remain n apparently fastened at the top rampant to emerge the tiger lily already disclosing i a wealth of color within the half hall closed petals displays what amounts to physical resistance most modest is the morning 91 glory ory unfolding slowly like something startled at the coming comina of sunlight her petals expanding w with ith rhythmic deliberation at the sight of the world she retires behind her silken blinds and is forgotten with the morning glory I 1 associate the daisy for the very I 1 reason eason that the latter combines a playfulness with her good breeding deliberate is the rose fashioned to beautify with the solidarity of I 1 her color and the perfection of her form she emerges with stateliness the more magnificent because of its fullness how magician BIag ician works the swiftest blooming flower is the cup of gold which attains its m maximum um beauty here in hawaii fifteen minutes after the cup begins to appear she is out in full plumage on the screen through pictures run at the rate of twenty I 1 four exposures a second thi this s entire transaction in the blossoming bloss oming of I 1 the gold cup will consume about forty five seconds in flower photography designed to show the actual blossoming bloss oming do Y you ou work outdoors never wind sunlight shadows shado vs 1 etc are never stationary only in in the studio under electric lights equalized temperatures and artificial conditions can perfect photography in natural colors be guaranteed when a specimen flower is about to bloom I 1 make an exposure every five seconds for a certain briod and then an exposure every two seconds the camera works automatically for one day of awen ty four hours and the picture is shown on the screen at the rate of twenty four exposures a second 0 western newspaper union |
