no Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



faults of the beginner. Every little detail must 

 be thought of, and a good way to avoid these un- 

 pleasant experiences is to have a regular routine 

 of procedure, both before and after exposure, and 

 never vary from it. If you do this regularly, it 

 will soon become so much of a habit that you will 

 do it unconsciously, and the chances of failure 

 through having overlooked an important detail 

 of procedure will be reduced to a minimum. 



In this work the ordinary tripod camera is of 

 but little use, unless you are photographing from 

 ambush, as, under the usual circumstances, by the 

 time you have opened and set up your tripod, 

 attached your camera, focussed, set the shutter, 

 and inserted the plate-holder, the animal you had 

 wished to photograph would be a mile or two away 

 and "still running." The only manner in which 

 a tripod camera can be used successfully is by 

 focussing from a well-screened ambush or "blind" 

 upon some objective point (such as a salt lick) to 

 which you may be reasonably certain the animal 

 will come, and then waiting until he gets there. 



This can often be done successfully from a 

 distance of twenty or thirty yards, or even far- 

 ther, and, by the use of the telephoto lens, large 

 images obtained. 



Sometimes, but not often, a deer, moose, or elk 

 will be discovered standing knee-deep in some 

 pond or grazing in some grassy opening, which, if 



