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RECREATION. 



AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



"For sport the lens is better than the gun." 

 / wish to make this department of the utmost 

 use to amateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to 

 answer any questions and to print any items sent 

 me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 

 ence in photography. 



8th ANNUAL COMPETITION. 

 Recreation has conducted 7 amateur 

 photographic competitions, all of which 

 have been eminently successful. The 8th 

 opened April 1st, 1903, and will close No- 

 vember 30th, 1903. 



Following is a list of prizes to be 

 awarded : 



First prize: A Long Focus Korona Camera, 

 5x7, made by the Gundlach Optical Co., Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., fitted with a Turner-Reich Anastig- 

 mat Lens, and listed at $85. 



Second prize: A No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak, 

 made by the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. 

 Y., fitted with a Bausch & Lomb Lens, Plastig- 

 mat Unicum Shutter, and listed at $61.50. 



Third prize: A Royal Anastigmat Lens, 4.x 5, 

 made by the Rochester Lens Co., Rochester, N. 

 Y.; listed at $36. 



Fourth prize A Waterproof Wall Tent, 12 x 16, 

 made by Abercrombie & Fitch, New York, and. 

 listed at $32. 



Fifth prize: An Al-Vista-PanOramic Camera, 

 made by the Multiscope and Film Co., Burlington, 

 Wis., and listed at $30. 



Sixth prize: A No. 3 Focusing Wen.o Hawk- 

 eye Camera, made by the Blair Camera Co., 

 Rochester, N. Y., and listed at $27.50. 



Seventh prize': A high grade Fishing Reel, 

 made by W. H. Talbot, Nevada, Mo., and listed 

 at $20. 



Eighth prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 

 4x5, and made by the Blair Camera Co., Roches- 

 ter, N. Y., and listed at $15. 



Ninth prize: A Bristol 'Steel Fishing Rod, made 

 by the Horton Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., ■ and 

 listed at $8. 



Tenth prize: A pair of Fligh Grade Skates, 

 made by Barney & Berry, Springfield, Mass., and 

 listed at $6. 



The 10 next best' pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 8 x 10 Carbutt Plates, made by the 

 Carbutt Dry Plate Co., Wayne Junction, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 5x7 Carbutt Plates. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 4x5 Carbutt Plates. 



A special prize : A Goerz Binocular Field Glass, 

 listed at $74.25, will be given for the best picture 

 of a live wild animal. 



Subjects are limited to wild animals, 

 birds, fishes, camp scenes, and to figures 

 or groups of persons, or animals, repre- 

 senting in a truthful manner shooting, fish- 

 ing, amateur photography, bicycling, sail-' 

 ing or other form of outdoor or indoor 

 sport or recreation. Awards to be made 

 by 3 judges, none of whom 'shall be com- 

 petitors. 



Conditions: Contestants must submit 2 

 mounted prints, either silver, bromide, 

 platinum or carbon, of each subject, which, 

 as well as the negative, shall become the 

 property of Recreation. Negatives not to 

 be sent unless called for. 



In submitting pictures, please write sim- 

 ply your full name and address on the back 



of each, and number such prints as you 

 may send, 1, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad r 

 dressed Photographic Editor, Recreation, 

 say, for instance : 



No. 1 is entitled : . 



Made with a camera. 



lens. 



On a 



Printed on 



Length of exposure, 



plate, 

 paper. 



Then add any further information yon 

 may deem of interest to the judges, or to 

 other amateur photographers. Same as to 

 Nos. 2, 3, etc. 



This is necessary in order to save post- 

 age. In all cases where more than the 

 name and address of the sender c,nd serial 

 number of picture are.. written on the back 

 of prints I am required to pay letter post- 

 age here. I have paid as high afi $2.50 on 

 a single package of a dozen pictures, in ad- 

 dition to that prepaid by the sender, on ac- 

 count of too much writing on th; prints. 



Any number of subjects may be sub- 

 mitted. ,1-11 



Pictures that may have been published 

 elsewhere, or that may 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 have 

 failed to win in the former competitions 

 because the makers did not heed this warn- 

 ing. 



WHY THE AMATEUR SHOULD USE PYRO. 



Pyro is the best developing agent we have 

 for plates. The substantiation of this 

 premise I will leave . to those who make a 

 business of photography. Look over the 

 directions given for making developers, and 

 for the development of plates, issued by the 

 plate makers, who pay , large salaries to 

 expert chemists to find out just what for- 

 mula gives the best result with their plates. 

 Note how the preference is always given 

 to-pyro. You may be .sure these men know 

 what they are about., Did you ever see a 

 demonstrator traveling for the large dry 

 plate concerns use anything but pyro ? At 

 present competition is so sharp, and the de- 

 mands and investigations' for new and bet- 

 ter methods so numerous, .rtliat only those 

 who keep abreast of the.Jiimes and do the 

 most acceptable w r ork succeed. Of these I 

 believe fully 99 per^cent^use' pyro. 



The negative is only one step in the 

 process of making the finished photograph ; 

 we are not. striving for a pretty negative, 

 but One which will give us. the best print. 

 This the use of pyro does by imparting to 

 the films an organic stain which can be 

 varied at will by the quantity of sulphite in 

 the developer. It is just this printing- qual- 

 ity imparted to negatives by pyro that 



