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waded in and, focussing the insect's point of rest, 

 put a plate in and waited. After a good while the 

 dragon fly condescended to come back, but even its 

 slight weight bent the 

 slender grass stem suffi- 

 ciently to render it out of 

 focus. We recognised that 

 it was a difficult subject 

 to overcome ; but we have 

 rather a liking for that 

 kind of photography, and 

 ultimately succeeded by a 

 little calculation and pa- 

 tience in attaining our 

 object. 



During the absence of 

 my brother I got over the 

 difficulty of making pic- 

 tures of butterflies and 

 other winged insects by 

 observing places they fre- 

 quented, and removing 

 every flower but one with- 

 in a given area, then cut- DRAGON FLY. 

 ting a model butterfly out 



of a piece of newspaper, sticking it on the flower and 

 obtaining a good clear focus by means of the type. 



Humble bees may sometimes be photographed 

 whilst asleep on a flower. On the 16th of last 

 May we found one hanging to a blue-bell in a field 



