To enliven his views, Watkins incorporated reflections whenever possible, and he was one of the first photographers to do so systematically over many decades. Watkins was a master of the reflected image, and this example is one of the best of the genre. He was an avid reader, and he occasionally made literary references when titling his work. In the name for this stereograph, the gray rocks refer to a line from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1824 poem "An April Day."
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