10369.d.7(18)

Genre: Landscape Photography

Stereoscopic view on the River Machno, facing p. 149: 'Such is the sparkling effect of this sun-picture as here displayed, that it requires no slight effort to trace amidst its scattered lights what are the real elements of the scene...The view is taken from the water-side, looking upwards and westwards. Out of the stained and weather-worn crags on the right, a twisted oak sapling, covered with ivy, stretches across the pool, and rests one of its arms on the bridge itself. Behind its lowest branch may be faintly traced the outline of a thin, dark arch, which is here flung across the ravine. The shadow in the water is more distinct than the object itself...Beyond and underneath it, the second bridge will at length be detected...Nothing else than a stereograph can adequately describe the distribution of softened and interfused light which irradiates every projecting peak of this chasm, steeping its recesses in blackened darkness, and throwing half-tints upon all the intermediate surfaces...' (pp. 162-163).