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CONDUCTED BY GEORGE W. KELLOGG 
Sport with a Camera 
We know of no sport more fascinating, none 
more commendable, than ‘“‘hunting” with a 
camera. It inflicts no injury, and causes neither 
pain nor loss of life. It requires more effort, 
more nerve, more patience and more skill than 
hunting with a gun. The hunter with a camera, 
to be successful, must have some knowledge of 
the creatures he is hunting. He must know 
where to look for them and become familiar 
with their habits. He must be the master of his 
apparatus and skilled in dark-room manipula- 
tions. The photographer of wild life should be 
an advanced worker. Judgment, experience, 
wits and brains are essential to his success. 
Exposure meters in the field, time and factorial 
development in the dark room and other. brain 
and labor saving devices should not be relied 
upon. The opportunity for exposure which may 
come and be gone in an instant may never come 
again. What might have been a good negative 
may be damaged or ruined by careless or brain- 
less development. 
We would encourage the beginner to qualify 
himself, the worker with some experience to 
start. Those pioneers in nature photography 
who have acquired distinction have been liberal 
and broadminded enough, not only to give us 
the benefit of their experiences, but to help 
substantially with explicit descriptions of the 
methods by which they attained success. From 
them and from others whose work is equally 
commendable, though it may not have come 
into prominence, we can draw much that will be 
of value. 
Apparatus need not be a bugbear. While it is 
conceded that in some instances there are cer- 
tain types of cameras better adapted for the 
work than are others, and that it is advanta- 
geous to have one of the very rapid modern 
lenses, yet, with the possible exception of those 
cameras having fixed focus lenses, the ingenious 
amateur can make such as he possesses or may 
be able to procure meet his requirements. We 
have seen the successful work of one amateur 
who used a 4 by 5 view camera and a good 
rectilinear lens of the same size; that of another 
who used a 5 by 7 camera fitted with an 8 by 10 
lens, and still another who had only a small 
hand camera with a short bellows and an ordi- 
nary rectilinear lens. Cameras of the reflecting 
type, in which the operator can see the image 
right side up till the instant of exposure, if fitted 
with anastigmat lenses and having focal plane 
shutters, are the best for catching near-by ani- 
mals in rapid motion or birds on the wing. On 
other occasions this type of a camera will be the 
most convenient, but for an all-round hunting 
camera it is less desirable than some of the 
more common styles. So the amateur who can- 
not afford the extra outlay of over one hundred 
dollars for such an addition to his outfit need 
not consider himself inadequately equipped. 
With the best equipment obtainable the most 
skilful photographer who has no knowledge of 
the game he is hunting will have little, possibly 
no, success. Whether he is in search of birds or - 
animals, he must know something of their 
habits, where to look for their nests or haunts. 
To get within a camera shot of wild birds, the 
most opportune occasions are during the nesting 
season; and during the winter, when, naturally, 
there is a scarcity of their food supply. On the 
one hand, a natural instinct to preserve their 
homes, on the other hunger, makes them less 
timid, less fearful. During one period you may 
approach closely without scaring the birds from 
their nests; in the other, you can with bits of 
food decoy the birds toward you. A shallow 
dish containing fresh water placed on a post, 
stump, rock or other conspicuous place in sum- 
mer will soon prove an attraction to many of 
the smaller birds. The camera can be set up 
and focused; plate holder inserted and slide 
drawn; shutter set and connected with a large, 
strong bulb, or, preferably, a bicycle foot-pump, 
by long rubber tubing, and the photographer 
retire some distance to wait. The presence of 
the camera may cause the birds to be a little shy, 
but probably not for a long time. The camera 
can be masked easily with a few light branches 
and green leaves, care being taken that nothing 
is placed between the lens and the point where 
it is expected the birds will alight. Eventually 
the birds will be posing in the desired: place. 
By being careful, so as not to frighten them, 
