Photographing Wild Game 



at us. I made an exposure on her, but the 

 negative showed nothing. A second more, 

 and with a spring she was off, and suddenly 

 the whole band dashed away in a tumult of 

 crashing sticks and timber. Hurrying on in 

 the direction of the other elk, I started to 

 cross a stream under some dense alders, 

 when suddenly a yearling cow started away 

 and, running around, stopped directly in front 

 of the opening, in an attitude of listening and 

 looking back. I quickly reduced my lens to 

 a shorter focus and made an exposure which 

 gave a fair picture, although the position was 

 an unusual one. This ended my opportuni- 

 ties for the day and trip. 



These negatives show a remarkable blend- 

 ing in the color of the elk and their surround- 

 ings, and they would be quite difficult to 

 distinguish were it not that some were in 

 sunlight, with a shadowy background. One 

 negative shows nine cows, nearly all feeding. 



In photographing elk, I very soon learned 

 that they do not like to come out into the 

 openings during the middle of the day; con- 

 sequently, when one gets opportunities, the 

 light is so non-actinic that the results are apt 



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