PHOTOGRAPHING IN CLIFFS, ETC. 



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the next thing is to slip two of the legs of the 

 tripod through 

 a belt fastened 

 round the waist, 

 one on the right 

 and the other on 

 the left, and the 

 third into any 

 convenient cre- 

 vice or fissure in 

 the rock. The 

 focussing must be 

 done with the 

 camera practic- 

 ally resting on 

 the chest, and the 

 body of the pho- 

 tographer in a 

 position almost 

 at right angles to 

 the line of the 

 precipice. It is 

 somewhatdifficult 

 work. However, 

 the example on 

 this page, repre- 

 senting a shag's 

 nest and eggs 

 some fifty or 

 sixty feet down a sea-cliff, shows what may be 



