Poetus Photographicus

CONSTRAINT : exposure meter must rhyme.

INVENTION/WORKS :

    “Whene’er the wind is in the East,

    Use twice the seconds at the least.

    And if the East incline to North,

    Take not the wretched sitter forth.

    Come cloud electric, or of hail,

    Then every picture’s sure to fail.

    But with the light zephyrs from the West

    In scarce five seconds ’t is imprest :

    And if the West incline to South,

    In three you have eyes, nose and mouth.”

[Photographic Journal, 1854]