
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 73 
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 
“4 Bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bag.” 
RECREATION’S FOURTH ANNUAL COMPETITION. 
RECREATION has conducted 3 amateur pho- 
tographic competitions, all of which have been 
eminently successful. A fourth is now on, 
which it is believed will be far more fruitful 
than either of the others. This one opened 
on January 1, ’99, and will close September 
30, 99. 
Following is a list of prizes: 
First prize: A Reflex camera, 5x7, made by 
the Reflex Camera Co., Yonkers, N. Y., with 
Zeiss anastigmat tens, and listed at $80; 
Second prize: A wide angle Wizard camera, 
made by the Manhattan Optical Co., Cresskill, 
N. J., with double swing, size 6% x8¥%, and 
listed at $60; 
Third prize. A Korona camera, series 2, 
size 5x7, manufactured by the Gundlach Opti- 
cal Co., Rochester, N. Y.. and listed at $27; 
Fourth prize: A split bamboo fly rod, listed 
at $25; 
Fifth prize: Alady’s or gentleman’s hunting 
case gold watch, listed at $20; 
Sixth prize: An Acme Rotary Burnisher, 
made by the Acme Burnisher Co., Fulton, 
N. Y., and listed at $12; 
Seventh prize: A Bristol steel fishing rod,. 
made by the Horton Mfg, Co., Bristol, Ct., 
and listed at $8; 
Eighth prize: A Baby Hawkeye Camera, 
made by the Blair Camera Co., Boston, Mass., 
and listed at $6. 
The 10 next best pictures will each be 
awarded one gross Eastman Solio paper, made 
by the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y.; 
The 10 next best pictures will each be 
awarded one dozen carbutt plates, made by 
the Carbutt Dry Plate Co., Wayne Junction, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; 
The 10 next best pictures will each be 
awarded a year’s subscription to RECREATION. 
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, shooting, fishing, ama- 
teur photography, bicycling, sailing, or other 
form of outdoor or indoor sport or recreation. 
Cycling pictures especially desired. Awards 
to be made by 3 judges, none of whom shall 
be competitors. 
Conditions: Contestants must submit 2 
mounted prints, either silver, bromide, plati- 
num, or carbon, or Solio, of each subject, 
which shall become the property of RECREA- 
TION. 
and title of picture to be plainly written on 
back of each print. Daylight, flashlight, or 
electric light pictures admissible. Prize win- 
ning 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. . 
The name and address of the sender, > 
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. 
Write on back of each print the title thereof; 
your name and address; name of camera, 
lens, and plate used; size of stop and time of 
exposure. 
TIME EXPOSURES. 
I wish to make one statement to the 
readers of RECREATION, most emphatically. 
I do not know which is the best camera 
or lens, or make of plates, or brand of pa- 
per. They all have some good qualities, 
or they could not stay on the market. 
I can speak only of such experiences as I 
have had but there are many reasons why 
I cannot say, “Use this camera, and you 
cannot fail.” Or “use this paper and suc- 
cess is sure.’ It -is,a clear case of “One 
man’s meat is another’s poison.” 
There are many things that alter the 
course to perfection of a picture. I might 
have rare success with a camera or a brand 
of paper; and another in a different locality 
might make failures,-though following as 
near as might be the same methods. 
{ff your dark room is not sufficiently 
dark, there will be a stubborn density about 
your plates, with yet no positive evidence 
of fog. Taking for granted proper de- 
veloping; if developer is not thoroughly 
washed from plates it will interfere with 
the clear, perfect work of the hypo. bath. 
Again, if hypo. is not thoroughly removed 
it will tell in printing, and in the after 
life of the negative. If print paper is 
handled carelessly, in too*strong light, 
while it will still print, it will not be of 
proper clearness and strength. When it 
comes to washing, almost as much of the 
delicate tones of your print depend on the 
water as on the chemicals. Lime water will 
combine with your baths to produce ore 
tone. Water that has stood in the iroa 
pipe of a drilled well is not good. Water 
from a lead lined tank, water tinctured with 
sulphur, and pure soft water, will each 
vary tones sufficiently to make a noticeable 
difference. This is one reason why 2 peo- 
ple using the same method in different 
places rarely get the same effect. So I re- 
peat I can only tell of my best methods of 
obtaining success and leave others to de- 
cide whether they will test them. 
1. Watch your dark room shutter, and 
when your orange and red paper fade, re- 
new them. 
2. If you wash prints under the faucet 
in the kitchen sink, pull down the blinds. 
If the day is very bright, raise an old um- 
brella and hook the handle round the 
faucet. If the cook objects make her a 

