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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 
“For sport the lens is better than the gun.” 
I 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. 

THE ANNUAL COMPETITION 
RecREATION has conducted 8 amateur 
photographic competitions, all of which 
have been eminently successful. The gth 
opens April ist, 1904, and will close No- 
vember 30th, 1904. 
Following is a list of prizes to be 
awarded: 
First prize: A Long Focus Korona Camera, 
§ x 7, made by the Gundlach Optical Co. Roch- 
ester, N. Y., fitted with a Turner-Reich Anastig- 
mat Lens, and listed at $85. ; 3 
Second prize: A No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak, 
made by the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. 
Y., fitted with a Bausch & Lomnib 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 AlI-Vista-Panoramic Camera, 
made by the Multiscope and Film Co., Burlington, 
Wis., and listed at $3o. 
Sixth prize: A No. 3 Focusing Weno Hawk- 
eye Camera, made by the Blair Camera Co., Roch- 
ester, 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, 
4 x 5, atid made by the Blair Camera Co., Roch- 
ester, 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 High 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 § x 7 Carbutt Plates. 
The ito next best pictures will each be awarded 
one dozen 4 x 5 Carbutt Plates, 
A special prize: A Goerz Binocular Field Glass, 
listed at $74.25, will be given for the best picttire 
of a live wild animal, 
Subjects are limited to wild animals, 
birds, fishes, camp sceries, and to figtires 
or groups of persons, or afiimals, fepre- 
seriting in a truthful manner shooting, fish- 
ing, amateur photography, bicycling, sail- 
ing of other form of outdoor or indoor 
sport of recreation. Awafds to be made 
by 3 judges, none of whom shall be com- 
petitors. 
Conditions: Contestants must submit 2 
motinted 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- 
RECREATION. 
ply your full name and address on the back 
of each, and nittmber such prints as you 
may send, I, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad- 
dressed Photographie Editor, RECREATION, 
say, for instance: ; 
No. f is entitled —— ——. 
Made with a —— —— camera. 
— — lens. 
On a —— —— plate. . 
Printed on —— —— paper. 
Length of exposure, ——- ——. 
Then add any further information you 
may deem of interest to the judges, or to 
other amateur photographers. Same as to 
Nos. 2, 3, ete. 
This is necessary in order to save post- 
age. In all cases where more than the 
name and address of the sender and 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 as $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 the prints. 
Any number of subjects may be sub- 
mitted. 
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. 

PHOTOGRAPHIC POST CARDS. 
The use of souvenir post cards has be- 
come almost universal. In some localities 
the revenue derived from post cards during 
some seasons of the year exceeds the rev- 
enue from the sale of stamps for letters, 
and the Post Office Department has adopt- 
ed liberal rules, so that almost a 
mailable can now be sent as a post card. 
It is only necessary that the card should 
bear, on the address side, the words “Post 
card,’ and in addition only the address 
should be on that side. | 
The opportunity for the amateur photo- 
gtapher to make his own post cards be- 
comes easily within the reach of all. There 
are many possibilities in this direction, The 
negatives already on hand may be used, and 
the artistic ideas expfessed may add a 
great interest to the message sent an ab- 
sent friend. 
If the amateur is the possessor of a small 
printing press, the printing of a number of 
post cards will occupy only a short time. If 
not, a rubber stamp, containing the words 
“Post Card,” in large clear type, can be 
used. A good quality of bristolboard will 
answer the purpose, and can be easilv cut 
to the desired size, 314x5™%, by the ordinary 
print trimmer. <*> 
