Nature Photography 13 



Unfortunately, also, there are many who, while 

 they decry the use of mounted specimens, work 

 on a different method, which gives just as poor 

 results. 



They, apparently, do not consider it at all 

 necessary that the ensemble of the picture be 

 natural so long as the image of the beast, bird, 

 or whatever the main object may be is large and 

 well defined. To gain these ends they employ 

 methods, in many instances, which, by removing 

 the subject from its natural surroundings, show it 

 in a false position and make the picture untrue 

 to nature. 



In a branch of photography the results of which 

 must, obviously, be true to nature if they would 

 have any real value, one cannot afford to miss any 

 of the small details that go to make up a truthful 

 whole in depicting incidents in the everyday life 

 of birds or beasts. In order that we should miss 

 none of these details, it is equally obvious that 

 these wild things should be photographed in their 

 native haunts, and I cannot think that removing 

 them to a studio especially prepared, as some 

 photographers do, and keeping them there until 

 they are reduced from their original wild condi- 

 tion to a state of semi-tameness before photograph- 

 ing them is true nature photography, no matter 

 what backgrounds and surroundings may be 

 arranged to make them feel and look at ease. 



