INTRODUCTION vii 



ing the details of almost any common object in na- 

 ture, and they will be astonished to find how much 

 there is to interest them in that object. Take a 

 photograph of a landscape, and even though it may 

 be beautiful, it is, after all, much like hundreds of 

 other landscapes. But take any one of the objects 

 represented in the view, such as the different grasses, 

 the flowers, or the trees, and how much more inter- 

 esting would they be if well photographed in detail ! 



It is in the hope of helping those who are merely 

 beginners in the art of photographing any of the 

 forms of nature that this little book is offered. 

 Knowing how many and varied are the difficulties 

 encountered by the nature photographer, it has been 

 the endeavour throughout these chapters to take note 

 of the principal difficulties that have been met by the 

 author, and, wherever possible, give such suggestions 

 as might be of help in overcoming them. No se- 

 crets have been withheld, and any so-called " tricks 

 of the trade " are explained frankly. At best a book 

 of this size can but touch on many of the subjects; 

 to give a full account of how to treat each subject 

 would require many volumes and would prove very 

 tiresome reading. Everything has been made as 

 brief as was thought compatible with clearness, and 

 technical terms have so far as possible been avoided. 



The illustrations are of course from life and were 

 selected from a collection of nearly three thousand 



