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absorbingly interesting as these would have been 

 to us. Then why not, rather than devoting our 

 cameras and our time to the producing of irre- 

 deemably bad bits of scenery and snap shots of 

 our friends, turn our energies into the making of 

 nature pictures and do something that will be 

 worth while ? There is room for all who wish 

 to enter this field, and there are plenty of direc- 

 tions along which one may work and never tire 

 or find that he has reached the end of his road. 

 Unless you intend to take it up seriously, how- 

 ever, you had much better remain where you are 

 and continue in your course of "snapping," for 

 there are already too many of the mere dabblers. 



As I have already said, there are but few really 

 serious workers in the field, but there are many 

 who work at it in the most amateurish of ways 

 and who seem to have no care to improve their 

 methods or better their results. These results 

 are, for the most part, poor, or, at the best, indif- 

 ferently passable, and they are not only no credit 

 to their makers, but often prove a serious detri- 

 ment to those few who are doing something. 



Their authors do not hesitate to use any means 

 that will obtain for them some kind of results with 

 the least possible expenditure of energy or patience. 

 They even go so far as to use stuffed subjects and 

 be willing to swear that they were alive, when the 

 veriest novice could detect the falsehood. This 



