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frequently a tripod will be found necessary. Any 

 camera, to be of all-round use, must be arranged so 

 that it may be pointed directly downward or upward. 

 A picture of a strider that I once used was made 

 with the camera pointing almost straight down. I 

 had been asked to make a picture that would show 

 the insect and his peculiar shadow. After trying 

 many times and without success to secure such a 

 picture while the insects were in a small stream, I 

 finally had to catch some of the lively little creatures, 

 and put them in a white-lined box with about an 

 inch of water. In this way it was easy enough to 

 make the photographs of both insect and shadow. 



Photographs of some varieties of wasps make in- 

 teresting pictures, as with little difficulty they may 

 be portrayed while at work building their mud house 

 or delicate hanging comb. These are but suggestions 

 of the endless subjects possible in insect photography. 

 To go into the subject at all thoroughly would entail 

 writing a book on entomology, and the writer has 

 neither the ability nor the desire to attempt such a 

 work. 



