THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF PETS, ETC. 



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To photograph a horse or horses in a field is to put 

 one's self in direct opposition to the sporting print or 

 photograph. It appears to be essential to the success 

 of the latter that the horse should form a subsidiary 

 portion of a picture of the rider booted and spurred. 

 In default of this, the stableyard is the background, and 



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a groom is included whose function appears to be to 

 arrange that the horse's head shall be elevated at the 

 proper angle, and that its forefeet shall be sufficiently 

 apart to show that they are naturally separate. The 

 naturalist will not lose much if he avoids the artificial 

 horse in the same way that 'he would avoid the artificial 



