Photographing Wild Game 
at us) made anyexposure’on her, but ‘the 
negative showed nothing. A second more, 
and with a spring she was off, and suddenly 
the whole band dashed away in a tumult of 
crashing sticks and timber. Hurrying on in 
the direction of the other elk, I started to 
cross a stream under some dense _ alders, 
when suddenly a yearling cow started away 
and, running around, stopped directly in front 
of the opening, in an attitude of listening and 
looking back. I quickly reduced my lens to 
a shorter focus and made an exposure which 
gave a fair picture, although the position was 
an unusual one. This ended my opportuni- 
ties for the day and trip. 
These negatives show a remarkable blend- 
ing in the color of the elk and their surround- 
ings, and they would be quite difficult to 
distinguish were it not that some were in 
sunlight, with a shadowy background. One 
negative shows nine cows, nearly all feeding. 
In photographing elk, I very soon learned 
that they do not like to come out into the 
openings during the middle of the day; con- 
sequently, when one gets opportunities, the 
light is so non-actinic that the results are apt 
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