Photographing the Larger Animals 103 



apparatus and camping outfit and, unless we are 

 well acquainted with the part of the country we 

 would visit, the looking up of travelling routes 

 and the hiring of guides. In fact it is nothing 

 more or less than a hunting trip on which the 

 camera takes the place of the rifle, or, at least, is 

 used in conjunction with it. 



Moreover, it should not be taken except by 

 those men who are physically capable of with- 

 standing much in the way of exposure, fatigue, 

 and hard, nerve-racking exertion. Photographs 

 of the larger wild things, the deer, moose, cougar, 

 etc., are only obtained by strenuous and often 

 dangerous work, and the ability to follow, at no 

 matter what cost, wherever your subject may lead, 

 until you have had your opportunity to catch his 

 image on your sensitive plate. It requires a 

 strength and endurance with which not many of 

 us are blessed, and those who are not possessed of 

 these necessary qualities or have not the nerve to 

 face at close quarters an angry elk at bay, or a 

 cougar treed and ready to spring, had better 

 not attempt it, but confine their labors to some 

 branch of photography that requires, perhaps, just 

 as much real brain-work and ingenuity, but less 

 of actual physical power. 



Recent literature has given us really astonish- 

 ing and wonderful proof of the courage, hardi- 

 hood, and skill of those naturalist sportsmen who 



