CHAPTER VII 



PHOTOGRAPHING THE LARGER ANIMALS 



THERE are few people, of those who use a 

 camera or of those who do not, who realize the 

 immense possibilities there are for pleasure and 

 excitement in the photographing of the wild 

 animals, the " big game." It is a field in which 

 but little has as yet been accomplished, but in 

 which much can be done, and it is undoubtedly 

 the sportsmen who can do this better than any 

 one else. This is because they know the ani- 

 mals, their habits and haunts, better than do 

 most of us, and because they know also the best 

 and surest means of approaching them. 



This is not a field, however, that any one can 

 enter, for it means work that necessitates the 

 taking of long trips into the denser wooded parts 

 of the country, and not every one can afford the 

 time to do this. 



Here we cannot go out for a day's work, as we 

 can when photographing the birds or even the 

 smaller mammals, but we must prepare for it 

 weeks in advance ; for it means the collecting of 



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