The Favorite Picture: Children playing with pets or favorite toys are naturally so charming that it is best to let them pose themselves. Simply watch what goes 70 on, and take a series of snapshots without making an important issue from a lower position than you would assume if your subject were an adult. This method is generally better than tilting the camera, lie-cause it will enable you to picture the child's features clearly. There will, however, be times when striking and unusual pictures can be made from the higher angle. (See the section on The Unusual I'iew-point in the next chapter.) When you wish to point the Camera down¬ward, it's a good idea to minimize vertical lines in objects within the picture area, because tilting the Camera will make the lines con¬verge in the picture.
Suggested exposure for pictures of toddlers (on bright days, and not in shade,
Kodak Verichrome or Plus-X Film, 1/100 second at f/7.9. f/S, or f/S.8; with Kodak Super-XX Film, 1/100 second at f/11.
The favorite picture used by the business owner on these giveaway cards is a shot of his own business establishment, so they do not represent any competition for the cards which you sell in gift shops, stationery stores, drug stores, hotel lob¬bies or restaurants.See Also Being The Favorite Instrument:REBEC, or REBECK, a stringed musical instrument of the violin kind, said to have been introduced by the Moors into Spain. It soon became popular all over the Continent, being the favorite instrument of minstrels and of village musicians, and up till the end of the 17th century playing the same important part at fairs, rustic games and weddings as does the violin at the present day.
Robespierre's services to the committee were such as his immense popularity and spotless rep¬utation could render it. He was the apologist for the committee in the Convention and before the people, but he differed from his associates entirely in so far as the motives of his actions were con¬cerned. While the Terror to them was but a thorough, though possibly radical, means for establishing peace within the country, Robes¬pierre saw in it an effective instrument for bringing about the erection of Rousseau's ideal state, since death would wipe out all who op¬posed his favorite theories.
On The Other Hand See Forty Favorite Cities:The main ingredients of Italy's unsur¬passable allure—some of them anyway—have been touched on in the opening paragraphs of this chapter and approximately forty favorite cities and communities will be mentioned under the hotel section below. It is, of course, impossible to catalog here even a reasonable fraction of all the conspicuous wonders of Italy, but I can perhaps do a service by calling attention to some of the inconspicuous wonders.
Southwestward: Orleans, the Maid's triumph city, with Blois and Tours beyond the Loire chateaux (See Number 6 in Special Interests); gracious cities of cathedral appeal, meaning Poitiers, Angouleme and Perigueux; the Pyrenean flanks, from Biarritz to Perpignan, with a chain of links like Bayonne, Lourdes, Toulouse of the troubadours; and towered Carcassonne, which has been a world favorite ever since the old chanson-nier, Gustave Nadaud, popularized it with a plaintive ballad.
Southeastward is the Rhone Valley, with Lyon, Orange, Avignon, Aries and Nimes, the last four places being old Roman cities that now are French.
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