CHAPTER X 
FISH PHOTOGRAPHY AT HOME 
Arter a fish photographic holiday, I usually return 
home with a hundred or more negatives. Some of 
these are of fish in natural environments; others show 
them swimming amongst weeds, which have been 
arranged in a tank; but a considerable number of 
the negatives are of fish seen against a white back- 
ground, the last being taken in clear water in front 
of a white sheet, as described in the preceding 
chapter. 
As a record of shape and external appearance, this 
is all that is required; but to show a fish swimming, 
as it were in mid-air, looks unnatural, and fails to 
interest most people. Therefore, without in any way 
diminishing the value of the negative as a record, on 
my return home I print in a suitable aquatic scene 
round the fish. 
As the landscape photographer collects cloud 
negatives, so at odd times I have collected nega- 
tives depicting scenes under the water. Recently I 
have obtained these in the pond; but as everybody 
cannot have a pond specially constructed for photo- 
graphy, I will explain how I used to obtain them in a 
tank, and then describe how the fish negative and the 
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