Photographing Wild Game 
directly upon them. This, while a matter of 
indifference to the hunter, is fatal to photo- 
graphic success in this brilliant rarefied air, 
as it is almost impossible to get the details 
of any objects in the shadow without very 
much over-developing the high lights. 
During the past season I found the elk 
very much wilder. They seemed to haunt 
the heavy timber, and to go to their wallows 
early in the morning or late in the evening, 
being scarcely ever seen in the open. I 
believe I should have succeeded much bet- 
ter had I waited till a month later, when 
the heavy snows would have driven them 
out of the higher country, as at that time 
they move in the daytime, and feed more 
in the open where the sun has bared the 
ground. 
The game-photographer should always de- 
velop his own negatives, since the whole 
development is devoted to bringing out the 
details of the animals, regardless of the sur- 
rounding picture; and as these are so small, 
and blend so remarkably with the surround- 
ing objects, the ordinary photographer is 
almost sure to overlook them. 
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