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is weak, the subject is in shadow or the artist facing 

 the sun, or at one of the thousand other impossible 

 times. Too often, in one's haste and eagerness, the 

 focus is mis-set, or the stop or exposure dial left at 

 a wrong figure, and the hideously stupid error dis- 

 covered long after the chance to repair it has passed 

 forever by. Of course all the human beings will 

 look pained and unnatural, get into awkward posi- 

 tions, turn their backs or grin idiotically at the lens, 

 start at the crucial instant, so as to blur the picture 

 no matter how swift the shutter, get in front of each 

 other, pull down hat brims so as to make faces a nice 

 rich black, and generally do their best to hinder, de- 

 feat and destroy. When the sun shines backgrounds 

 will be over-exposed, when it wreathes itself in 

 clouds and you plan a time exposure the wind will 

 furiously sway everything movable and, instead of 

 clear and dainty definition, give you broad and blank 

 blurs. How trying these troubles are, and how dif- 

 ficult they make it to get even a few decently in- 

 teresting views, only one who has tried can really 

 know, but perhaps this brief recapitulation of a few 

 of the obstacles one meets may induce the reader to 

 make some allowance for the pictures I offer. 



The membership of this particular club is filled, 

 but there must be many others in the same region, 

 who would be glad to welcome gentlemen and sports- 

 men to their privileges. There is also plenty of 

 splendid fishing ground not taken up at all, and a 

 moderate amount of effort, expense and time will 



