Word: moonlighters
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Pictures taken at night are sometimes more revealing than those taken in daytime. In some cases, long exposures with sensitive film and light-intensifying devices can take satisfactory shots in moonlight or even starlight. But it is more common to illuminate the target, usually by a powerful flash bomb dropped by parachute and exploded far below the plane. A shield keeps the brilliant light from reaching the camera directly, but the first light reflected from the ground triggers a photocell to open the camera's shutter. If there are no lights on the ground to fog the film...
...pale moonlight...
...Moonlight. Watson has illuminated some 500 gardens during the past five years, ranging in price from $250 for a garden 10 ft. by 15 ft. to about $100,000 for one of his current projects, the 17-acre garden of Dallas' electronics and aircraft tycoon James Ling. "No two clients want the same effect," he says. "Color is the tricky thing...
...Overall floodlight is repulsive," Watson says. "What I do when I show people my garden is to build the moonlight effect up slowly, then build highlights and subtle shadows. Then suddenly I turn it all off and flash a floodlight on the garden. Everybody always says, 'Oh, no!' and from that moment I know I've got a convert, and the husband knows he's going to have to spend some money. Floodlights are for finding your automobile in the driveway or for carrying the garbage out to the trash can. But not for gardens...
...color is important to Oil Geologist D. Harold ("Dry Hole") Byrd, in whose two-acre Dallas garden Watson was putting the finishing touches on a $16,200 installation. The color is red. "See those three purple beeches," said Byrd to a visitor. "While the moonlight's going, I can throw a switch, and a series of powerful red lights plays on those tree trunks. I know Watson didn't care much for it. But I like red." Mr. Byrd's sharp eyes grew pensive. He said: "I'm trying to figure out some way to have...