From the March 1, 1930, issue

BEAUTY IN A DITCH

Among the photographs that attracted much attention at an exhibition of the London Salon of Photography not long ago was one that stood out as a gleaming example of the beauty to be found in common things–even in ugly things–by a sufficiently discerning eye. S. Uyeda saw a lot of big, round oil spots floating on the top of a wayside ditch, the interspaces pebbled with smaller spots.