AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 151 
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 
“4 Bird in the hand 7s worth 2 in the bag.’ 
RECREATION’S FOURTIL 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 I, ’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 lens, 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% x 8%, 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. Thename 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 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 
e charged. 
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Dont 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. (Continued.) 
GENE S. PORTER. 
12. Speaking of birds, there are no more 
rare and beautiful pictures than those of 
birds and their nests. Every owner of a 
camera should have a collection of them. 
There is no necessity of disturbing the 
bird or her nest. If you cannot secure a 
picture without doing so, be sufficiently 
fine in your sentiments to go away and 
let the little mother alone. If you find a 
nest you can take, do so with neatness and 
dispatch, and take yourself off. You don't 
deserve a place among civilized beings, 
if you want only to disturb a brooding bird. 
13. Economy is a matter of great import 
to many, if not most amateurs. You can 
economize greatly, in the use of folding 
cameras with plate holders by the use of 
kits, inside the holders, thereby enabling 
you to get the benefit of your fine large 
lens on plates of any size. 
Frequently, when using a camera of 4 
x 5 or larger you want to take smaller 
pictures, and you dread to use your large 
pilates, so you frequently miss pictures you 
really want, yet don’t use an 8 or Io ct. 
plate on. This is where kits come in. 
Kits are made by any reliable firm, and 
are small wood frames the exact size and 
thickness of plates. They fit the plate 
holder just as a plate does. You can have 
the center cut to fit any sized plate. Drop 
the plate in, turn a tiny button to clasp 
the edge, and there you are. For common 
use 4 x 5 plates are good. I am doing 
most of my work at present with a Cycle 
Poco, that is a perfect little gem of a ma- 
chine. 
My plate holders are 5 x 7, and I use 2 
sizes of kits. I have a leather carrying 
case, in one end of which the camera ex- 
actly fits. In the other I have four 5 x 
7 plate holders. One of these I load with 
two 5 x 7 plates, 2 with four 4 x 5 plates, 
and one with 2 4 x 4 square plates. This 
gives me 8 exposures each trip, and I 
rarely use all of them. I bought my kits 
from E. and H. Anthony & Co., Sor 
Broadway, New York, a firm I have found 
reliable. prompt and accurate in filling 
small orders as well as larger ones. 
The use of kits is a great economy in 
plates. and paper; but I would advise any- 






