AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



RECREATION'S THIRD ANNUAL COMPE- 

 TITION. 



Recreation has conducted 2 amateur 

 photographic competitions, both of which 

 have been eminently successful. A third 

 will be held, which it is believed will be far 

 more fruitful than either of the others. This 

 one will open January 1, '98, and close April 



30, '98. 



Following is the list of prizes as thus far 

 arranged. Others may be added later: 



First Prize — A Folding Kodak, made by the East- 

 man Kodak Company, of Rochester, N. Y., and valued 

 at $75. 



Second Prize — $25 in cash. 



Third Prize — A Cycle Korona Camera, made by the 

 Gundlach Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y., and valued at 

 $22.50. 



Fourth Prize — An Adlake Camera, made by the 

 Adams and Westake Co., Chicago, and valued at $12. 



Fifth Prize — An Amateur Rotary Burnisher, made 

 by the Acme Burnisher Co., Fulton, N. Y., and valued 

 at $10. 



Sixth Prize — A Baby Hawkeye Camera, made by 

 the Blair Camera Co., of Boston, and valued at $6. 



Seventh Prize — 1 Gross Blue Label photo print paper. 



Eighth Prize — 1 Gross Aristo Jr. photo print paper. 



Ninth Prize — 1 Gross Aristo Platino photo print pa- 

 per, made by American Aristotype Company, James- 

 town, N. Y. 



The makers of the 15 next best pictures 

 will each be awarded a yearly subscription 

 to Recreation. 



The contest will close April 30, '98. 



Subjects are limited to wild animals, 

 birds, fishes, camp scenes, and to figures 

 or groups of persons, or domestic animals, 

 representing, in a truthful manner, shoot- 

 ing, fishing, amateur photography, bicy- 

 cling, sailing, or other form of outdoor 

 sport or recreation. Cycling pictures es- 

 pecially desired. Awards to be made by 3 

 judges, none of whom shall be competitors. 



Conditions: — Contestants must submit 2 

 mounted silver, bromide, platinum, or car- 

 bon prints, of each subject, which shall be- 

 come the property of Recreation. The 

 name and address of the sender, and title 

 of picture, to be plainly written on back of 

 each print. Daylight, flashlight, or electric 

 light pictures admissible. Prize winning 

 photographs to be published in Recrea- 

 tion, full credit being given in all cases. 



Pictures that have been published else- 

 where, or that, have been entered in any 

 other competition, not available. No entry 

 fee charged. 



Don't let people who pose for you look at the 

 camera. Occupy them in some other way. 

 Many otherwise fine pictures failed to win 

 in the last competition, because the makers 

 did not heed this warning. 



HOW SHE GOT THE FIRST PRIZE. 



Editor Recreation: It may interest 

 you to know the picture reproduced on 



page 177 of September Recreation, en- 

 titled " The Hunter's Pause," appeared in 

 another publication, as far back as 1894. 

 under the title of " Mt. Jefferson from 

 Grizzly Tarn, Oregon." I don't quite un- 

 derstand what you mean by your com- 

 ment: "Joint winner of first prize." 

 Neither can I see how this picture could 

 have been eligible to the competition. I 

 quote from the rules of the contest: 



" Subjects are limited to wild animals, 

 birds, fishes, scenes, and to figures or 

 groups of persons, or domestic animals, 

 representing, in a truthful manner, shoot- 

 ing, fishing, amateur photography, bicy- 

 cling, sailing, or other form of outdoor 

 sport." 



There is nothing in this picture indicat- 

 ing any kind of sport; nor is there any in- 

 dication or intimation of hunting; either 

 in the past, present or future, expressed 

 or inferred, except in the title given to the 

 picture, on this present occasion. The man 

 in the foreground surely is no hunter, un- 

 less he has left his gun and hunting clothes 

 at home. Probably it is the dog who is the 

 " hunter." In that case the printer has 

 misspelled his " paws." 



Seriously, I think Mrs. Wiggins, nee Al- 

 bert, has made a mistake in changing the 

 title of this picture, although I must own 

 she made no mistake when she changed 

 the title of her other picture, " Hunting 

 the Big Horn," which was awarded first 

 prize in your competition. It is worth a 

 $75 kodak more, as " Hunting the Big 

 Horn," than it was as " Mt. Jefferson, Ore- 

 gon," when it appeared in the other maga- 

 zine, in 1894. I have nothing to say as to 

 the eligibility of this latter picture, in your 

 competition. That has already been de- 

 cided by your judges, in awarding it a 

 prize. Besides I am aware a picture loses 

 some of its snap, brilliancy and detail in 

 being reproduced by the half-tone process. 

 This doubtless accounts for my inability 

 to discover in the picture, as reproduced in 

 the July Recreation, anything relating to 

 hunting, or any other form of out door 

 sport, either directly or indirectly. 



As a photograph of a mountain it is cer- 

 tainly fine, but the very thing necessary to 

 make it eligible in the competition seems 

 to be wanting, in the reproduction at least. 

 Will you not for the benefit of your read- 

 ers who are photographically inclined, or 

 who may not have an imagination flexible 

 enough to fully understand these pictures, 

 give us the " picture story " of each, as ex- 

 pressed in the originals of these 2 photo- 

 graphs, that we may be enabled to better 

 appreciate the application of their present 

 titles? H. G. Reading. 



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