24 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



Even so great a lover of the sport of hunting 

 as Theodore Roosevelt said, in his introduction 

 to A. G. Wallihan's " Camera Shots at Big Game," 

 that : " The shot is, after all, only a small part of 

 the free life of the wilderness. The chief attrac- 

 tions lie in the physical hardihood for which the 

 life calls, the sense of limitless freedom which it 

 brings, and the remoteness and wild charm and 

 beauty of primitive nature. All of this we get 

 exactly as much in hunting with the camera as in 

 hunting with the rifle ; and of the two the former 

 is the kind of sport which calls for the high- 

 est degree of skill, patience, resolution, and 

 knowledge of the life history of the animal 

 sought." 



But it is not necessary for the sportsman to 

 entirely give up hunting with a gun in order to 

 do so with a camera. 



I am not an advocate of a continual close season, 

 nor do I wish to preach against the sports of the 

 chase except to those who are mean-spirited 

 enough not to see wherein the true sport lies and 

 will shoot, indiscriminately, everything in sight. 



I am, preeminently, a naturalist, but I have 

 enough of the sportsman's instinct in me to 

 keenly enjoy a day with the quails behind a pair 

 of good dogs. I find much more real and lasting 

 pleasure, however, in the use of my camera than 

 of my gun. 



