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appears to be the object of those sun artists who subordinate 

 the animal to the hall door or porch against which he is 

 placed, and to the friends and relations who desire to be 

 included in the group. I soon rejected a fixed camera in 

 favour of a hand one, with which I could move about, and thus 

 suit my position to that taken by the horse. This ability was 

 specially necessary to me in my endeavour to get all the 

 portraits in as exact profile as possible, in which attempt, a 

 foot or two, one way or the other, might make all the differ- 

 ence between a failure and a success. Besides, with a hand 

 camera, one can, as one may see fit, lower or raise the 

 machine, for instance, to clear the animal's head from a dis- 

 tant tree or other object. In the class of work which I had 

 on hand, the superior mobility of the hand camera greatly 

 outweighs, as far as my experience goes, any advantages 

 over it which the fixed one may possess. We must re- 

 member that a horse retains only for a few seconds any 

 position he may take up, when he is in an attentive, if not 

 excited mood, in which he alone looks well ; and that, for him 

 to appear to advantage, he must have his ears pricked for- 

 ward, which he will continue to do only for a brief period 

 of time. 



My progress, which I am afraid was not very consider- 

 able, in the study of photography, was greatly facilitated by 

 the fact of my belonging to the Photographic Association of 

 India, the members of which are always ready to lend a help- 

 ing-hand to their weaker brethren. To the local members, 

 this, as all such associations should be, is, essentially, a dark- 

 room club, at which the student is almost always certain to 

 meet one or more of his confreres from whom to obtain prac- 

 tical as well as theoretical help and advice. 



Although the English residents in India are very small in 

 number, and are widely distributed through that vast empire, 

 they are, as a rule, well educated, and consequently the local 

 English journals have a high standard of literary excellence. 

 The leading daily papers are the Times of India, The Pioneer, 



