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PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS Here, from the New Photographer of August 23rd, 1926, are a few holiday hints on what to photograph where. RYE - Mostly marsh, but, like most other things, a really good marsh will make a nice picture if you get it in a good light from the right angle. This means that when it is printed, it probably won't look like a marsh at all, which is all to the good. HENLEY - Plenty of most excellent pictures can be had at Henley: the river girl, for instance, not à la chocolate box, but as she really is - all hot and bothered, trying to pull her punt pole out of where she stuck it last. ABERDEEN - A very nice place, but extremely North and suffers from bad jokes. There is much in Aberdeen for a photographer to take, but burglars take practically nothing - everything is so well looked after. MENDIP HILLS - The Cheddar Gorge is an excellent subject; you cannot photograph the other Cheddar Gorge, which is really a choking sensation in the throat that Aberdonians get when they pay Cheddar price for Cheddar cheese especially imported from Toronto. DOVER - Customs officers, Eastern potentates, American millionaires, Trades Union delegates and other wonders of creation are to be photographed in Dover. Here the cows graze on the chalk cliffs of Albion, which exonerates the milk trade to some extent; then, again, there are the Channel swimmers, swimming all over the Channel, looking for Calais. Dover was invented by Henry VIII, and he had some very original ideas, so you can't altogether blame the place. BOURNEMOUTH - Boot's in Bournemouth bristles with Brownies, the only camera you need, the sun shines so beautifully: take one of the pier from the woods, one of the woods from the pier, local brewery, the gasworks and the police station in the moonlight. Call them "Where I Have Stayed." KYLES OF BUTE - One good thing about photography in the Kyles of Bute is that a picture of any given spot can be easily and safely used as the picture of any other given spot.
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