^ Photography by Day and by Night 



no way altered or touched up. Touched-up photographs 

 are never to be trusted. 



The story of my progress in the art of animal photo- 

 graphy is soon told. 



In 1896 and 1897 ^ ^^^ "^^ adequately equipped, 

 and I took only a few photographs, all by daylight. 



After going through a careful course of instruction 

 in Kiesling's Photographic Institution, I did not succeed 

 in entirely satisfying myself with the daylight photographs 

 I took on my second expedition of 1899 — 1900. It was 

 impossible at that time to photograph objects at great 

 distances, the telephoto lens not yet carrying far enough. 

 My efforts to photograph the animals by night proved 

 entirely fruitless, for one reason because the flashlight 

 apparatus would not work. It was exasperating to find 

 that my heavy and expensive "accumulators" — procured 

 after consultation with technical experts— refused to act, 

 and I remember vividly how I flung them out into the 

 middle of a river ! I achieved but one single success 

 at this period with a self-acting apparatus, namely the 

 photograph of two vultures contending over carrion, here 

 reproduced ; one of them has been feeding, and the other 

 is just about to assert its right to part of the meal. The 

 attitudes of the two birds are very interesting, and one 

 feels that it would have been very difficult for a painter 

 to have put them on record. But all my other attempts 

 failed, as I have said, from technical causes, and I had 

 to content myself for the most part with photographing 

 the animals I hunted, though I did succeed in getting 

 pictures of a waterbuck and a giraffe at which I had not 



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