AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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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 sha/t, therefore, be glad to 

 answer any questions and to print any items sent 

 me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 

 ence in photography. 



No. 1 is entitled 

 Made with a 



camera. 



lens. 



7th ANNUAL COMPETITION. 



Recreation has conducted 6 amateur 

 photographic competitions, all of which 

 have been eminently successful. The 7th 

 will open April 1st, 1902, and close No- 

 vember 30th, 1902. 



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: An Al-Yista-Panoramic Camera, 

 made by the Multiscope and Film Co., Burlington, 

 Wis., and listed at $40. 



Fourth prize: A Wizard C Camera, 4x5, 

 made by the Manhattan Optical Co., Cresskill, 

 N. J., with B. & L. Iris Diaphragm and Leather 

 Carrying Case; listed at $33. 



Fifth prize: A Waterproof Wall Tent, 12 x 16, 

 made by D. T. Abercrombie & Co., New York, 

 and listed at %i2. 



Sixth prize: A Gold Hunting Case Watch; 

 listed at $50. _ 



Seventh prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 

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

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



Eighth prize: A Bristol Steel Fishing Rod, 

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

 listed at $6. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 on dozen 8x10 Carbutt Plates, made by the Car- 

 butt Dry Plate Co., Wayne Junction, Philadelphia, 

 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 Goez 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 other 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 mav 

 send, i, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad- 

 dressed Photographic Editor, Recreation, 

 say. for instance: 



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, etc. 



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 

 warning. 



CONCERNING DISTANT FIELDS. 



Edward W. Newcomb, in the Photo Record. 



It is properly held by all advocates of 

 photography that the pursuit of subjects 

 for our cameras takes us out into the 

 country, fills our lungs with pure air, and 

 thus provides health and pleasure combined. 

 This can not be denied, nor have I any wish 

 to dispute the fact ; but to those who really 

 desire to produce lasting pictures let me 

 say there are certain subjects at home 

 which, while completely overlooked, are 

 much choicer than are the extended views 

 to be had in the next 5 States. It is 

 strange we with cameras all seem so in- 

 fatuated with landscapes that out of a col- 

 lection of several hundred photographs, 

 there will be a vast preponderance of land- 

 scape, some with figures, more without, 

 and few, if any, of the real pictures that one 

 pan not help seeing on every side right 

 in our own homes and in our own streets. 

 As a record of where one spent a pleasant 

 summer, these views are not to be de- 

 spised, though all will admit that their 

 interest is usually personal. These pic- 

 tures rarely exhibit great artistic excel- 

 lence, and, even if they do, the credit does 

 not belong to the photographer, for he 

 merely placed his camera in front of these 

 existing gems and obtained a copy of what 

 he found there, what others had duplicates 

 of, and others to come would produce. 

 There is nothing meritorious about such 

 work, since it is in no sense original. I 



