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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 expert 
ence in photography. 

THE ANNUAL COMPETITION 
RECREATION has conducted 8 amateur 
photographic competitions, all of which 
have been eminently successful. The 9th 
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, 
5 x 7, 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 4 x 5 Petite Century Camera, 
with Goerz Anastigmat Lens and Century Shutter, 
listed at $73. 
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: 
made by the Multiscope and Film Co., 
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 12 x 12 Waterproof Wall 
Tent, listed at $16.30. 
Eighth prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 
4 X 5, and 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 
a pair of chrome tanned leather driving or hunt- 
ing gloves made by the Luther Glove Co., and 
listed at $1.50. 
The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 
a Laughlin Fountain Pen, listed at $1. 
A special prize: A Goerz Binocular Field Glass, 
listed at $74.25, will be given for the best picture 
of a live wild animal. 
An A\l-Vista-Panoramic Camera, 
Burlington, 
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, I, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad- 
RECREATION. 
dressed Photographic Editor, REcREATION, 
say, for instance: 
No. I 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 DESEO RE REE Same as to 
Nos. 2, 3, Oe 
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. 
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. 

ENLARGING. 
Since reading Mr. Klinefelt’s inquiry in 
January RECREATION in regard to using a 
5x7 long focus Premo camera for making 
bromide enlargements, I have been giving 
the matter some thought. 
I have such a camera; which I use for 
the most of my work; but I do not con- 
sider it ideal for the purpose named. It 
can be used, though if Mr. K. can get hold 
of a front focus, reversible back view 
camera he will find it more satisfactory. 
The first requirement for enlarging is a 
room which can be made entirely dark. 
Bromide paper is nearly as light-sensitive 
as a day plate, and must be worked by yel- 
low light. The easiest way to darken the 
windows of the room selected is to make 
a light wooden frame for each one, using 
pine strips, say I1%4,x7% inches. These 
frames are to fit snugly inside the window 
casing and are halved together at the cor- 
ners. Cover each side with heavy brown 
paper glued on. If the windows are large 
one or 2 cross bars should be put in the 
frames to stiffen them. The frames may 
be held in place in the windows by a screw 
at top and bottom, or by buttons, as may 
be most convenient, the object being to get 
as close a joint as possible around the 
edges. If some light filters through the 
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