4 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



While the camera can be made to lie, despite 

 the fact that it has been said that it cannot, yet 

 it never does except when made to do so, or by 

 accident, and the pictures obtained by means of it 

 are pretty sure to be absolutely true to life, accu- 

 rate in drawing and detail, and showing the subject 

 exactly as it was when the shutter was snapped. 

 The camera can do more in the fraction of a sec- 

 ond than the most skilful artist can accomplish 

 through hours of hard labor. 



The scope of nature photography is almost 

 limitless, its only real limitation being the im- 

 practicability of photographing in color. To be 

 sure, photographs can and have been made by 

 what is known as the three-color process, but this 

 is at its best unsatisfactory, often giving false color 

 values, and so I always advocate the use of mono- 

 tones in their reproduction. 



The field to be covered, however, is endless, as 

 one soon discovers when he enters it, and a single 

 lifetime is too short a while in which to do all 

 that one would along these lines. If each one 

 can contribute a little of the best of his work, 

 however, to increase the stock of the world's 

 knowledge, for all he knows that little may be of 

 great value and importance. 



As a means, also, of studying nature there is 

 nothing so helpful as a camera, for not only does 

 it aid us in seeing things that might otherwise be 



