The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1901, Page 18

ok him three weexs to make the and with it only nasthead of a owing a stretch of city It to h first onc., ty-five and [ Jn ‘¢ r { P, £ S / e 1 e heaving sea, with e Hopkins r 3 ful pictures were made. in = I \ biowing regular from the Le r They in Findi these somewhat J “ VQ QY %‘ \ s g £ Melvin Van- are taken on one plate, the cam f¢ the camera was thrown aside R ‘l i/ " y photographer of San lenses laving been made from special and and larger machine start- Francisco, retently desi 3 Until now these ed was torn to pie at least He was a hegy; n. and the method accomplished a tri- e largest and mo view of Honol P " have @ ys_been six times, but, after ntuch work, with it employed in ascending the Pali was not 1 sections and joined together. was made the most artistic photograph cale d to reassure him. The side of ? thereby hangs a animan followed up this of the famous Pali, ncar Honolulu, ever the cliff is covered with tangled vegeta- 5 & t to photographers method and used all of the various pan- produced. Mrs. V . with the eye tion and shrubs. The climbers made - orama cameras. In the joining process of an artist, has colored this picture, their toilsome way with a il ves have to be printed exactly making it even more beautiiul hook secured to the e¢nd of a rope mera used for these photo- hook was thrown up as f: T years spent in ex- reached a point in ail n alike, the same time of exposure, etc., The ¢ s possible g S !F has long been to make the whole picture perfect. He graphs is almost as large as a small to catch a hold among the moss and an became known in Hon- in such + \ fully. He has suc- tricd enlarging small nezatives, but trunk. At the time of making the pic- shrups and the explorers would then “trapeze photog 27 me ir s continuous pano- yund that unsa actory. hen he set ture the Pali Captain Magee of the pull themselve > by the rope This from the aerial methods to w cas ed, brought them at oiten obliged to making a camera of his own, bark Battle Abbey, then at Honolulu, process, oft reg n size on his broadest picture effe TRAPRZKR sizes of the il 1g that.no .ordinary one would cxpressed a desire to -accompany Mr. Jast to a ledge at an elevation of 500 g a article are 16 by achieve his object. Since then he has Vaniman up the rugged cliffs. He had feet he built picture of Honolulu been through a maze of bolts and climbed the Andes and Alps. but had Here the picture was taken, after ornered portable tower thir: = 4 PRQ i M TC top of a pole 107 scre shutters and lenses, and has heard from English travelers of the some time spent in bringing around the somewhat like a wind aF-4 made four cameras. Pali, and wanted to try it. doughty captain, who nearly collapsed was placed in position among t Al A