Photography and the Sportsman 23 



" The camera thus opens the door to a field of 

 sport previously closed to those who love the 

 birds too much to find pleasure in killing them ; 

 to whom Bob White's ringing whistle does not 

 give rise to murderous speculation as to the num- 

 ber of his family, but to an echo of the season's 

 joy which his note voices. They therefore have a 

 new incentive to take them out of doors ; for how- 

 ever much we love nature for nature's sake there 

 are few of us whose pleasure in an outing is 

 not intensified by securing some definite, lasting 

 result." 



All this from a man who once would shoot with 

 the best, but who has now forsworn the use of 

 the gun except when occasion demands it, and 

 who finds his pleasure and recreation in hunting 

 with a camera solely. That there are many others 

 who think and feel the same way is evidenced by 

 the number of ardent sportsmen who are taking 

 up the camera in preference to the gun. 



One man, whom I have previously mentioned 

 as being one of the first to see the possibilities in 

 nature photography, had been up to that time 

 through all his previous life a most active advo- 

 cate of sports afield with shot-gun, rifle, and rod. 

 There was seldom a season passed that he did not 

 take month's long hunting trips, but now that 

 hunting is done entirely with a camera, for he has 

 almost forsworn the use of any other weapon. 



