108 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



camera, as the advantage lies too heavily with the 

 latter. 



Learn all there is to know about still hunting 

 and then double every precaution known to the 

 hunter's art and you may succeed in your hunting 

 with a camera, but fail in a single particular or let 

 your caution abate for one second of time and the 

 chances are that you will get no picture, but, in- 

 stead, will be forced to stand and watch your 

 quarry go crashing off through the woods. 



Above all, the excitement of the chase must 

 not cause you to forget your object, or to cease 

 to be cognizant of everything that you are doing. 

 You may not think this is liable to happen, but it 

 is. I have known of a man, and he was no 

 novice at the game either, who let an excellent 

 opportunity to get a picture of an elk escape him 

 simply because, as he himself said, in the excite- 

 ment of seeing the animal so close to him he 

 entirely forgot that he had a camera in his hands. 



Mr. A. R. Dugmore tells of an experience of a 

 similar nature that he had while photographing 

 moose in northern Maine. He says : " Once 

 when I was on a hunting trip trying to secure 

 some moose pictures, I came across a fine large 

 bull. The situation was perfect from a pictorial 

 point of view. He was in a large pond where 

 the lily pads were abundant; in the background 

 was a bank of trees, mostly birch ; beyond stood 



