You know where. I forget the name of the town. But it was in
the south seas."
We both studied it for a space. It showed Ginkel standing underneath
something that looked like a palm tree. But the tree was slightly out of
focus. So were Ginkel's feet.
"It is interesting," said Ginkel, "But it ain't such a good picture. The
lower part is kind of blurred, you notice."
We looked through the album in silence for a while. Then Ginkel suddenly
remembered something.
"Oh, I almost forgot," he said. "There's one I think you'll like. It was
taken in Calcutta. You know where. Here it is."
He pointed proudly toward the end of the book. We studied it through the
tobacco smoke. It was a photograph of Ginkel dressed in the same clothes
as before and standing under a store awning.
"There was a good light on this," said Ginkel, "and you see how plain it
comes out."
Then we continued without comment to study other photographs. There were
at least several hundred. They were all of Ginkel. Most of them were
blurred and showed odds and ends of backgrounds out of focus, such as
trees, street cars, buildings, telephone poles. There was one that finally
aroused Ginkel to comment:
"This would have been a good one, but it got light struck," he said.
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