HUNTING WITH A CAMERA. 



Are you fond of hunting?" I asked 

 J~\_ J. Carter Beard, the great 

 animal painter. " Yes ; and yet 

 I seldom take a gun when I go into the 

 woods. I love the birds and beasts too 

 much to want to kill them. I prefer to 

 hunt with a camera, or a sketch book. 

 I like to go into the haunts of my wild 

 friends, approach them as closely as pos- 

 sible and then study their movements, 

 their habits, their family life, their love- 

 making, their quarrels. I like to make 

 sketches of them in all their attitudes 

 and poses. These I work out in my 

 studio, at my leisure. If you sportsmen 

 would cultivate this taste more, instead 

 of killing so much game, you would 

 enjoy your outings more, and the woods, 

 the fields and the mountains would be 

 the more interesting and attractive to 

 future generations." 



" But," I said, " all sportsmen are not 

 artists." 



" It is not necessary that they should 

 be, in order to bring home pictures of 

 what they see in the woods. Photog- 

 raphy is now so simple a process that 

 any one, of ordinary intelligence, can 

 learn to operate a camera. If you see 

 in the woods a bird, an animal, or a 

 number of them, in such positions, atti- 

 tudes or groupings as to form a delight- 

 ful picture, and if you have not your cam- 

 era with you, make a rough sketch or 

 diagram of the scene — no matter how 

 crude — indicating figures, trees, rocks, 

 etc., by crosses or rude signs. Then 

 go to an artist or an art student, 

 show him your sketch, tell him all you 

 can recall of the poses,*attitudes and 

 movements of the various actors in 

 your drama, and you will be surprised 

 to see what a life-like reproduction of 

 the scene will grow under his hand and 

 your direction. If you can get a pho- 

 tograph of the landscape, even after the 



game is gone, all the better; but this is 

 not essential. The picture you have 

 seen and have jotted down in your own 

 rough way, can be reproduced without 

 it." 



I called on Frederic Remington, 

 another artist whose vivid portrayals of 

 hunting scenes, and of life in the far 

 West, have made him famous, and asked 

 if he were really a hunter, as his work 

 would seem to indicate." 



"Yes," he said, "I have done a lot of 

 hunting on the plains and in the moun- 



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tains, but not much killing. I have a 

 fine rifle and a complete hunting outfit. 

 I have made several trips with army 

 officers, cowboys and others, into good 

 game countries ; but when I get out 

 there I usually leave my rifle in camp 

 and hunt with my pencil ; I like it 

 better." 



Fortunately, this sentiment is growing 

 among sportsmen, and whereas ten 

 years ago few men ever thought of 

 taking a camera into the woods, on a 

 hunting or fishing trip, it is now a part 

 of the outfit of nearly every party of 



