CHAPTER VIII 
HABITS OF MARINE ANIMALS 
My brother has accompanied me on several of my 
photographic holidays, and had it not been for his 
assistance many of the illustrations shown would never 
have been obtained. 
Often two or three days, and a considerable part of 
the night, have had to be spent closely watching a fish 
in order to photograph a particular attitude, movement, 
or stage in its life history. After a spell of this sort 
it comes as a pleasant change to take a day off and 
either photograph marine animals amongst the rock 
pools, or attempt to emulate the Keartons by obtaining 
sun pictures of bird life. For this sort of photography 
no special apparatus is necessary. I merely take a 
quarter-plate reflex camera, twelve dark slides, and 
then scramble amongst the rocks, looking for objects 
of interest. 
It is a wise precaution to have everything strapped 
on, otherwise with your hands hampered you may slip 
on a weed-covered boulder, and have to look for your 
camera or plate-box at the bottom of a pool. 
There are two ways to work on these excursions. 
You may either keep on the move, picking up here and 
there photographs of varying subjects—and it is astonish- 
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