THE CAMERA IN NATURE 



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This photographing of stuffed ani- 

 mals and the like has many points in 

 its favor. In the first place it gives 

 one's artistic skill a loose rein to go 

 ahead and create something unusual 

 and worth while. In the second place, 

 it also gives one a chance to show 

 one's skill as a photographer. One is 

 not hampered by being hurried, or by 

 the feeling that the model is getting 



As to equipment, very little need be 

 said. It is quite as possible to obtain 

 artistic and natural effects with a pin- 

 hole in a cigar-box as it is with the 

 most expensive camera obtainable- The 

 ordinary folding pocket-camera with a 

 portrait-attachment will give a very 

 adequate negative — but one which will 

 need considerable enlarging to get the 

 best of results. 



CONSTERNATION OF THE EARLY BIRD 



tired — a fact which has been account- 

 able for so many portraits being un- 

 successful. The composition of one of 

 these little scenes can occupy as long 

 as one wishes. And last, but by no 

 means least, among these advantages 

 is the fact that it can be done anywhere 

 at any time, out doors or in. in sun- 

 shine or artificial light. A very practi- 

 cal method is to set up the composition 

 on a small table. When all is ready, 

 table and all can easily be moved about 

 before a window, and any number of 

 novel lighting-effects may thus be ob- 

 tained. 



Although I do not plan that these 

 pictures shall be actually funny, yet I 

 try to have them gay in character. It 

 seems to me that unless they are at 

 least mildly diverting, their lose their 

 raison d'etre, for even with a tremendous 

 stretch of imagination, they surely 

 cannot be called beautiful. Their of- 

 fice is to divert, and if they succeed in 

 this in a degree, they have accomplish- 

 ed their object. 



There are now, in the various prov- 

 inces of China, one hundred and thirty 

 agricultural experiment stations. 



