Overland Prize Photographic Contest, Part VI [pp. 439-443]

Number 42 WINTER IN NORTHERN NEW YORK
Arthur L. Jameson, Ogdensburg, New York
THE OVERLAND PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHIC
CONTEST-VI
Eare never content with imperfection, have been made in medicine. In astronomy
and in the development of all the too the sensitive plate, accumulating imarts and sciences there has been a con- pressions through long hours of exposure,
tinual approach toward an ideal con- has revealed stars that would otherwise
dition. In photography, which reproduces never have been known. In connection
artistic effects with scientific accuracy, with stellar spectroscopy it has registered
there is the possibility of a development the composition and the motions of these
greater than we can yet conceive of. far off and dim stars in a marvelous
Photography has been called the slave of manner.
science. Certain it is that it has aided Photography has been also called the
much in revealing conditions and possibili- slave of art. it has searched out nature's
ties in mechanics, geology, zoology, and choicest and grandest scenery, and there
medicine. It is more accurate than the the painter and poet have followed to deeye, and more has been recorded by the cam- rive inspiration. It has been called the
era than was expected or hoped for. It is slave of the pleasure seeker and the advenan aid to the memory, and by means of the turer, but it will be proved that a marked
close study of photographs taken at sig- individuality exists for the work of the
nificant moments, important discoveries photographer who enters into it with the
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