CHAPTER VI 



PHOTOGRAPHING FISH AND OTHER AQUATIC LIFE 



PART I 



THE AQUARIUM AND OUTFIT 



Outfit required. — Long-focus camera. Rapid lens. Plate-holders. Fo- 

 cussing-cloth. Instantaneous isochromatic plates. Aquarium — two 

 wooden horses ; two boards about seven feet long ; bucket ; rubber 

 tube ; sponge ; cloth (for polishing glass) ; scrub-brush ; claw-shaped 

 tongs ; small landing-net. 



Until quite recently fish photography was almost 

 untrodden ground. Few had attempted it, and fewer 

 still had succeeded. The new interest in natural- 

 history subjects, with its absolute demand for "photo- 

 graphs from life," has led, after touching on almost 

 every other branch of work, to the photographing 

 of fish, and almost every month we hear of some 

 person taking it up. Though not so interesting as 

 bird and animal work, it has, nevertheless, many points 

 of interest, and, like all other nature photography, it 

 teaches us a great deal that hitherto has never even 

 been thought of 



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