Nature Photography 3 



love of it and the love of the wild things with 

 which it brought them into close contact, and 

 who had tenacity and determination enough to 

 stick at it, no matter how many were the difficul- 

 ties that confronted them. 



One of the first to do the best work in this 

 country was a close friend of mine ; a man who 

 all his life had been an ardent sportsman, but 

 who laid down his rifle and shot-gun to take up 

 the camera in their stead. He has never had 

 cause to regret the exchange, for he has found 

 just as much excitement in the hunt with a cam- 

 era as with a gun and much more pleasure in the 

 results. Many of his pictures stand to-day as the 

 best in their line and will undoubtedly so stand 

 for all time, as it would seem to be impossible to 

 improve upon them. 



Nature work with a camera forms an epoch, 

 not only in the photographic world, but in the art 

 of illustrating as well. Heretofore, in our nature 

 works and sportsman's books we have had to be 

 content with drawings, always inaccurate, often 

 ludicrous, and sometimes even grotesque in their 

 untruthfulness to nature. This was not always 

 the fault of the artist, for there is nothing more 

 difficult truthfully to portray with pen or brush 

 than the wild life. These unnatural illustrations 

 are now a thing of the past, for photographs have 

 superseded them. 



