Light filters through trees and is reflected on the surface of a foreground pond or other body of water.

Marcel Vanderkindere: 1865-1941

“In M. M. Vanderkindere Belgium possesses a pictorial worker of high rank, both as regards technique and artistic taste. In his pictures, which are chiefly landscapes, one finds much of the same qualities which distinguish those of Mr. Horsley Hinton and other English pictorialists of the same school. There is a similar effective grouping of materials not too promising in themselves, the same skilful lighting, and the same sentiment and poetic feeling. Several works we remember bear evident traces of the ” English School of Landscape Photography,” which is frankly admitted by many leading Belgian workers to ” embrace a fine sense of the beautiful in nature, restrained within truly pictorial limits by a skilful use of both material and a sure handling of tone values.” In both the examples of M. Vanderkindere’s work which have been reproduced herein the qualities to which we have drawn attention are present in a satisfying degree, although reproductions, however carefully made, cannot always do full justice to pictures which rely so much for their charm upon the nuance of the original.” (1.)

1.  Clive Holland, Pictorial Photography in Belgium, from “Art in Photography”, with selected examples of European and American Work. Edited by Charles Holme, offices of “The Studio”, London, Paris and New York: 1905  p. B4