^ Photography by Day and by Night 



light that rise up out of the scorched soil, for instance — 

 make it peculiarly hard to calculate the time of exposure, 

 and many photographs turn out failures which you have 

 felt quite sure of having taken properly. This is specially 

 disappointing in the case of animals that you may never 

 have another opportunity of photographing. In such cases 

 I make a practice of giving as many exposures as possible, 

 in the hope of one or other of them turning out right. 



You often miss splendid chances, of course, simply 

 through not having your camera at hand. A few moments' 

 delay may lose you an opportunity that will never come 

 to you again. Then, again, you are just as apt in Africa 

 as elsewhere to make the mistakes so well known to 

 all photographers — wrong focussing, using the same plate 

 twice, not getting your objects properly on the plate, etc. 

 Nor can you always avoid having a tree or bush or branch 

 between you and the animal you want to photograph. 

 These things are often enough to quite spoil your picture. 

 The weight of the camera, too, is in itself a hindrance. 

 It is not every one who can handle a 13 X i8-cm. tele- 

 photo camera. Even a 9 X 12-cm. is heavy enough. It 

 must be remembered that on one's journey ings through 

 the wilderness it is almost as much as one can do to carry 

 with one a sufficient supply of water — that most essential 

 thing of all. And one has to be most careful of the 

 apparatus, for mischances may occur at any moment. 



Though my experiences and those of others will have 

 had the effect of smoothing the way for all who go photo- 

 graphing in future in Equatorial Africa, still, hunting with 

 the camera will remain a much more difficult thing than 



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