Photography for the Sportsman 

 Naturalist 



CHAPTER I 



NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: ITS SCOPE AND 

 USEFULNESS 



It Is of comparatively late years (about seven 

 or eight) that the camera has been used for pic- 

 turing our wild life to any extent ; but so very 

 rapid has been the advancement in this branch 

 of the camerist's art that photographs that were 

 once deemed impossible — pictures of animals in 

 their native haunts, of birds flying and attending 

 to their home duties, of fish in their natural ele- 

 ment, of insects during the various stages of their 

 metamorphoses — are now obtained, not always 

 exactly easily, but with at least not too great a tax 

 upon the ingenuity and resources of the operator. 



This has been made possible, to a large extent, 

 by the immense improvement in apparatus that 

 has been accomplished in the past few years, and 

 especially by the extremely rapid lenses that have 

 been placed upon the market, making an expos- 

 ure of a thousandth of a second practicable. 



