Apparatus for a Field Worker 97 



suffocating one, and is dangerous, also, to the 

 welfare of the plates. 



There are many sundries which one can use to 

 advantage and which are not usually included in 

 a regulation photographic outfit. Among these 

 may be mentioned a pair of good climbers for 

 ascending trees. These should be made with 

 longer spurs than are on those ordinarily used 

 by the telegraphic linemen, so that they may 

 easily penetrate through the bark of the tree 

 and into the solid wood beneath. I should not 

 recommend any one to make his first attempt at 

 their use on a very high tree. A plentiful supply 

 of stout cord is also useful in many cases. It 

 should be strong enough to admit of hauling up 

 and lowering the camera from tree-tops. Many 

 photographers screen their cameras with leaf-cov- 

 ered boughs, etc. I use merely a large piece of 

 green cloth. It often will be found necessary to 

 thus screen the camera, for the two things about 

 it that seem to frighten the subjects most are the 

 lens and the legs of the tripod. The former it is 

 impossible to entirely cover up, but the latter can 

 be made invisible, and for this purpose, as I have 

 said, I use a piece of green cloth, which blends 

 sufficiently well with the surrounding foliage to 

 allay, in most cases, the fears of my subject. 



A mirror is frequently of extreme assistance. 

 It should be of heavy plate-glass, so as not to 



