106 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



If this kind of work is not exciting enough for 

 the most exacting, calling, as it does, for a display 

 of the greatest coolness and nerve under trying 

 circumstances, then I am at a loss to know just 

 what could satisfy him. 



Mr. W. E. Carlin, who was at one time a most 

 enthusiastic sportsman, but who has of late years 

 used a camera almost exclusively, in preference 

 to a gun, on his hunting trips, has done much 

 excellent work, principally in the Bitter Root 

 Mountains in Montana and Idaho. I am inclined 

 to believe that with the black and the white tailed 

 deer, particularly, no one has done any better 

 work than has he, for many of his photographs 

 of these animals are as near perfection as 

 possible. 



He has used entirely a telephoto lens on these 

 subjects, photographing from a blind at a distance 

 of from seventy-five to one hundred yards from 

 the deer. His photographs of lynxes are also 

 most excellent. These he obtained by trapping 

 the animals and tying to one of their hind legs a 

 clog heavy enough to keep them from running, 

 but not so heavy as to entirely impede their 

 motion. Then, by following them about until 

 they assumed natural and characteristic attitudes, 

 he was enabled to obtain just what he wanted. 

 This may seem simple and easy enough to the 

 uninitiated, but to face an enraged lynx, even 



