THIS beautiful photograph of sunrise over Windsor Castle, taken from the opposite side of the river, represents the successful culmination of many previous attempts, extending over thirty years, on the part of the photographer, Mr. Samuel Logan, of High Street, Slough.
It is only for about two weeks in every year in late summer or early autumn that the position of the rising sun behind the Castle is such as to bring the great Round Tower so impressively into the centre of the picture, when seen from this particular point of view. Even during that fortnight, of course, atmospheric conditions may not always be favourable for the purposes of photography.
Moreover, Mr. Logan was anxious to secure an ideal "composition" of the scene in the foreground. "Something was always wrong," he is reported to have said (to discussing the matter with a "Daily Mail" correspondent), "when I tried to take the photograph in past years. Either the ferry-punts on the Eton side of the river were not in the right place, or the water was too rough, or the swans were not where they should have been, or there would be a far greater number of them than I desired."
Mr. Logan, who in his young days was an apprentice to a firm of photographers at Eton, is said to have made his first attempt to obtain this sunrise effect about thirty years ago, repeating it almost every year since, until he at last succeeded in getting all the phases and details of the scene, as in the above reproduction, to his complete satisfaction.
The photograph was brought to the notice of the Queen, and she was so pleased with it that she expressed a wish to have a copy. Her Majesty accepted a special enlargement.