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P. Lehner
1904
Dec. 2 - continued /
Grand Canyon of the Pacific" "It's not quite as big
as our canyon; I like ours better" "It's a little hazy;
are you going to take a picture" "Yes, but I think
I'll use my FLASH." AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF SHE DIDN'T!
She took out a little flash bulb the size on a pencil
eraser, stuck it in her Brownie Starflash, aimed and
fired; I watched the bulb and had a hard time
seeing it go off, but she intended to light up
the whole canyon with it. We returned to our
mangled car and continued toward Kalalau lookout;
along the way I had to convince an elderly
woman and her husband that she was shooting her
movie camera at the right lens opening; through
mud, rain and beautiful countryside we continued
to Kalalau lookout and then back and around the
other side of the island; we stopped to take
pictures at Hanalei Valley; there was a horse near
the road which I used as a foreground - Standen
came up and took a close up of the horse's head;
I suggested he go to the other end and get a
picture of a horse's posterior - there he was about
3 ft. away from the south end of a north facing
horse, focusing his camera while cars went by with
amazed faces pressed to the windshield; earlier in
the morning I had climbed onto the top of our car to
(over)