Photography and the Sportsman 27 



when we have to bring into play all the skill and 

 ingenuity we possess in order to gain our end, 

 that end is worth the gaining, that object worth 

 the having, and we would not exchange it for 

 dozens of those reached throuo-h little effort. 



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There are thousands of people who own cam- 

 eras and who imagine they are finding pleasure 

 in photographing such steadfast and patiently im- 

 movable objects as houses, statues, bits of scenery, 

 etc. What is the enjoyment of such compara- 

 tively prosaic employment when the whole field 

 of nature photography is open to any one who 

 wishes to enter it, and when such successes as one 

 may have are not only of real value in themselves, 

 but are undeniable tributes to one's skill both as 

 a photographer and a hunter ? 



Furthermore, the sportsman who hunts with a 

 camera has the advantage over the man who does 

 not in the fact that everything is " game " that 

 comes his way. There is no bird or animal that 

 is too small to be of interest photographically. 

 He will find that even the flowers, the trees, the 

 insects, and the thousand and one things which 

 may be photographed in the woods are worth 

 considering and not without their full quota of in- 

 terest, and he will gradually learn how much more 

 numerous are nature's offspring than he has ever 

 before considered them. 



Moreover, another thing that must be taken 



