AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



DANGEROUS WORK. 



From the Boston Globe. 



AmaLeur photography is doing wonders. 

 Mr. A. G. Wallihan, the postmaster at Lay, 

 Col., has given up the duties of the office to 

 his wife, and is giving his attention to mak- 

 ing photographs of live game. A year ago 

 he made arrangements with a couple of noted 

 Colorado guides, Messrs. Patterson and 

 Wells, of Meeker, to go into partnership. 

 He would take only his camera, and would 

 divide the expenses. He would give the 

 guides a share in any good photographs of 

 live game they might succeed in getting. 



Mr. C. A. Hardy, son of Edward E. Hardy, 

 who has done so much for game distribution 

 and propagation, a senior at Harvard, heard 

 of Mr. Wallihan and his adventure, and last 

 fall decided to join an expedition with them. 

 He only desired the game pictures, and did 

 not go so much for shooting. The result was 

 the killing of an enormous mountain lion, or 

 cougar, by the young man, and the seeing 

 of several others under peculiar circum 

 stances. The beast shot was eight feet in 

 length, and weighed 194 pounds. Its height 

 at the shoulder was 24 inches, and the girth 

 of the forearm was 15 inches: The animal 

 was killed in the vicinity- of White river, 

 Col., early last winter, and its mounted skin 

 is now on exhibition in a store window on 

 Washington street. 



The most wonderful feature in connection 

 with the animal is a series of three photo- 

 graphs made by Mr. Wallihan. The first one 

 shows the animal treed by the dogs and look- 

 ing from the branches at his pursuers. The 

 second, and most wonderful of all, shows the 

 beast in midair, actually springing at the 

 photographer from the tree. The third pic- 

 ture shows the animal down and being har- 

 ried by the dogs. 



The validity of the photographs is vouched 

 for by Mr. Edward E. Hardy, and the taking 

 was witnessed by his son, who a few years 

 ago obtained a picture of a flying grouse 

 which his father was liberating — a picture 

 which caused considerable comment at the 

 time. 



St. Paul, Minn. 

 Editor Recreation. 



Your department of amateur photography 

 is always interesting and instructive to me. 

 The suggestion made by a brother amateur, 

 to keep toning bath cold by placing a tray 

 containing bath in a larger one with ice water, 

 is a good one. I do the same. My washing- 

 boxes are made as follows : Make a box the 

 desired size; then buy a piece of black rub- 

 ber cloth in any dry-goods store; spread the 

 cloth in the box, smooth it out, then tack on 

 upper edge. This will make a good, cheap, 

 water-tight box, and will answer the purpose 

 as well as an expensive one. 



I have a Poco, 5x7, with R. S. lens, and 

 during the two years 1 have dabbled in pho- 

 tography it has given me a great deal of 

 pleasure. I have enough pictures to pay for 

 my instrument besides. So much has been 

 said about using care in handling plates and 

 chemicals that I wish to emphasize this 

 point. Remember it takes patience and 

 practice to get the hang of it. Always use 

 the best of everything; by so doing you will 

 be more successful and have fewer disap- 

 pointments. 



E. J. Pauli. 



Dr. Joly, F. R. S., has lately made pub- 

 Tic his discoveries in color photography, in a 

 paper read before the Dublin University 

 Experimental Association. He has succeeded 

 in doing what has baffled all previous ex- 

 perimenters in color photography. By his 

 method only one plate is necessary to repro- 

 duce any combination of colors. 'I he pho- 

 tograph is taken in the ordinary way with 

 an isochromatic plate, the only difference 

 being that a plate, finely ruled in the three 

 primary colors, red, green, and blue, is 

 placed in front of the sensitive plate. Thus, 

 three images, corresponding to the three 

 colors, are obtained on one plate. A trans- 

 parency is made from this negative, and a 

 plate ruled in colors, similarly to the one 

 previously used in taking the photograph, is 

 placed in front of the positive, and the slide 

 is now ready to place in the lantern. Thus 

 it will be seen that Professor Joly's inven- 

 tion is beautifully simple, while it yields very 

 good results. The photographs of the spec- 

 trum, various colored flowers, portraits, 

 etc. which Dr. Joly exhibited with the elec- 

 tric lantern, showed how truly the most 

 delicate tints could be reproduced, and 

 thus it is now possible to have permanent, 

 reliable, objective evidence of color sensa- 

 tion. As the chairman, Professor Fitz Ger- 

 ald, remarked, " Professor Joly, the Experi- 

 mental Association, and Trinity College are 

 to be congratulated on one of the most re- 

 markable discoveries of this century." — Pho- 

 tographic Times. 



A Substitute for Distilled Water. 

 — Fill a clean glass bottle with well water, 

 add a few centigrammes of azotate of silver, 

 just enough to render the water opalescent. 



When the salt of silver is perfectly dis- 

 solved expose the bottle to the light until a 

 blackish precipitate forms on the bottom. 

 Decant the clear water, being careful not to 

 disturb the precipitate, and you will have 

 water which, if not actually distilled, practi- 

 cally is just as good. — Photo Gazette. 



Will some one give me a formula to 

 keep me from turning on the hot water fau- 

 cet, instead of the cold, when washing nega- 

 tives ? Hard Luck. 



