28 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



into consideration is the fact that there is no 

 closed season for the camerist. Every month in 

 the year is prolific with the wild life, and there is 

 no time when one cannot obtain pictures of it. 

 So we need not choose our time to go on a hunt- 

 ing trip according to the game laws, but can start 

 whenever the spirit moves us or the opportunity 

 presents itself. 



Should the photographing of American game 

 pall on one or become too tame a pastime, there 

 is an immense field for work in other countries 

 for any one who has the time, money, and ambi- 

 tion to enter it. It would seem to me that if one 

 is looking for true excitement, he could have his 

 heart's desire by taking his camera into the jun- 

 gles of India or Africa. There would, of course, 

 be more or less danger attending such an under- 

 taking, but danger is one of the underlying essen- 

 tials of excitement ; and think of the results one 

 could obtain ! 



This has been done to a small extent by one or 

 two English sportsmen, but the photographs com- 

 ing from that portion of the world are few and far 

 between, and science needs more of them. 



However, there is an immense field to be cov- 

 ered in America, for the good photographs of our 

 native big game are still all too uncommon, and 

 it is to the sportsmen that I look in the future to 

 increase their numbers. 



