PHOTOGRAPHING WILD GAME AT NIGHT. 



ism, and fortunately is being gradually 

 weeded out of us. The ranks of the 

 camera hunters are increasing every 





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COPYRIGHT, 1898. 



"WHAT DID I HEAR?" 



Day-light photograph of live wild deer, made in Alger 

 County, Mich. 



year among the higher class of sports- 

 men, and the ranks of the men who 

 hunt only for the sake of killing are 

 gradually decreasing. The thirst for 

 blood comes from the cruel side of our 

 natures, while the love of the beauti- 

 ful — the love of art — comes from the 

 ideal side. 



To photograph an animal or a bird 

 alive and in his wild state requires 

 even more skill than to stalk him or 

 to wait for him on a pass and kill him. 

 A photograph of such a creature may 

 always be regarded as a higher test of 

 skill than a mounted head or skin. 

 Any man with a moderate degree of 

 patience and of skill in the use of fire 

 arms may kill game ; but the man who 

 possesses the artistic skill and the pa- 

 tience and the enthusiasm necessary 

 to stealthily approach a bird or ani- 

 mal within photographic range, or to 

 wait for him to get near enough to 

 place his image on the sensitive plate, 

 is indeed the highest type of sports- 

 man. 



Please do not understand me as ad- 

 vocating the entire prohibition of the 

 use of gunpowder in hunting. I love 

 the smell of it as well as any living 

 man. I love the excitement of the 

 chase as well as anyone could love it. 

 I appreciate all the benefits in the way 

 of robust health, hard muscles and 

 good appetite which come from such 

 sport; yet, at the same time I am anx- 

 ious to inculcate in the minds of sports- 

 men the necessity of preserving a 

 reasonable supply of all birds and 

 mammals, in order that the woods, the 

 waters and the mountains may always 

 be as attractive to sportsmen and to 

 naturalists as they are to-day. As I 

 have repeatedly said, this cannot be, 

 unless radical and vigorous measures 

 are taken to check the terrible destruc- 

 tion that is now going on. One way 

 of doing this and of still allowing 

 sportsmen to enjoy all the pleasures of 

 the chase, is to substitute the camera 



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COPYRIGHT, 1898. 



"I WONDER WHAT THAT WAS?" 



Flash-light photograph of live wild deer on Whitefish 

 Lake, Mich. 



for the rifle and the gun, as soon as 

 each man shall have taken sufficient 

 game for camp use. 



