In Wildest Africa -^ 



boat. He set up a row of cameras in the bow of his 

 craft, and when it passed close to the deer standing in 

 the water, he let his flashlight flame out, and in this way 

 produced — in the course of ten years or so — a number 

 of very interesting photographic studies, which made 

 his name well known in his own country and which won 

 him a gold medal at a Paris Exhibition, where his work 

 aroused much attention. I was familiar also with the 

 " telephoto " pictures which Lord Delamere brought home 

 from East Africa.^ Those of Mr. Edward North Buxton 

 were published first in 1902, so far as I know. I myself, 

 I should explain, do not profess to be a complete master 

 of the photographer's art. Indeed, I rather rejoice in 

 my ignorance of many of the inner secrets of the craft 

 known only to experts, because I believe it has helped 

 me to get a certain character into my pictures which would 

 perhaps have eluded one whose mind was taken up 

 with all the difficulties involved in the task. 



At first sight the photographing of animals may seem 

 a simple enough matter, but if we look at the photographs 

 taken in zoological gardens or in menageries or game 

 reservations, or photographs taken during the winter at 

 spots to which the animals have had to come for food, 

 or at the various touched-up photographs one sees, we 

 shall find that there are very few of any real worth from 

 the standpoint of the naturalist. Whoever would take 

 photographs of value should take care that they be in 



^ I do not know of any "telephoto" picture of animals in rapid motion 

 having been published anywhere previously to my own. Those I refer to 

 here are of animals at rest or moving quite slowly. 



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