CHAPTER VIII 



HABITS OF MARINE ANIMALS 



My brother has accompanied me on several of my 

 photographic holidays, and had it not been for his 

 assistance many of the illustrations shown would never 

 have been obtained. 



Often two or three days, and a considerable part of 

 the night, have had to be spent closely watching a fish 

 in order to photograph a particular attitude, movement, 

 or stage in its life history. After a spell of this sort 

 it comes as a pleasant change to take a day off and 

 either photograph marine animals amongst the rock 

 pools, or attempt to emulate the Keartons by obtaining 

 sun pictures of bird life. For this sort of photography 

 no special apparatus is necessary. I merely take a 

 quarter-plate reflex camera, twelve dark slides, and 

 then scramble amongst the rocks, looking for objects 

 of interest. 



It is a wise precaution to have everything strapped 

 on, otherwise with your hands hampered you may slip 

 on a weed-covered boulder, and have to look for your 

 camera or plate -box at the bottom of a pool. 



There are two ways to work on these excursions. 

 You may either keep on the move, picking up here and 

 there photographs of varying subjects — and it is astonish- 



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