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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



recreation's fourth annual competition. 



Recreation has conducted 3 amateur pho- 

 tographic competitions, all of which have been 

 eminently successful. A fourth is now on, 

 which it is believed will be far more fruitful 

 than either of the others. This one opened 

 on January 1, '99,- and will close September 



3°, '99- 



Following is a list of prizes: 



First prize: A Reflex camera, 5x7, made by 

 the Reflex Camera Co., Yonkers, N. Y., with 

 Zeiss anastigmat lens, and listed at $80; 



Second prize: A wide angle Wizard camera, 

 made by the Manhattan Optical Co., Cresskill, 

 N. J., with double swing, size 6 l / 2 x8^, and 

 listed at $60; 



Third prize. A Korona camera, series 2, 

 size 5x7, manufactured by the Gundlach Opti- 

 cal Co., Rochester, N. Y., and listed at $27; 



Fourth prize: A split bamboo fly rod, listed 

 at $25 ; 



Fifth prize: A lady's or gentleman's hunting 

 case gold watch, listed at $20; 



Sixth prize: An Acme Rotary Burnisher, 

 made by the Acme Burnisher Co., Fulton, 

 N. Y., and listed at $12; 



Seventh prize: A Bristol steel fishing rod, 

 made by the Horton Mfg, Co., Bristol, Ct., 

 and listed at $8; 



Eighth prize: A Baby Hawkeye Camera, 

 made by the Blair Camera Co., Boston, Mass., 

 and listed at $6. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be 

 awarded one gross Eastman Solio paper, made 

 by the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y.; 



The 10 next best pictures will each be 

 awarded one dozen carbutt plates, made by 

 the Carbutt Dry Plate Co., Wayne Junction, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. ; 



The 10 next best pictures will each be 

 awarded a year's subscription to Recreation. 



Subjects are limited to wild animals, birds, 

 fishes, camp scenes, and to figures or groups 

 of persons, or domestic animals, representing, 

 in a truthful manner, shooting, fishing, ama- 

 teur photography, bicycling, sailing, or other 

 form of outdoor or indoor sport or recreation. 

 Cycling pictures especially desired. Awards 

 to be made by 3 judges, none of whom shall 

 be competitors. 



Conditions: Contestants must submit 2 

 mounted prints, either silver, bromide, plati- 

 num, or carbon, or Solio, of each subject, 

 which shall become the property of Recrea- 

 tion. The name and address of the sender,, 

 and title of picture to be plainly written on 

 back of each print. Daylight, flashlight, or 

 electric light pictures admissible. Prize win- 

 ning photographs to be published in Recrea- 

 tion, full credit being given in all cases. 



Pictures that have been published else- 

 where, or that have been entered in any 

 other competition; not available. No entry 

 fee charged. 



Dorit let people who pose for you look at the 

 camera. Occupy them in some other ioay. Many 

 otherwise fine pictures failed to win in the 

 last competition, because the makers did not 

 heed this warning. 



Write on back of each print the title thereof; 

 your name and address; name of camera, 

 lens, and plate used; size of stop and time of 

 exposure. 



HOW I LEARNED TO MAKE PICTURES. 

 G.S. P. 



Recreation was sent me for a Christ- 

 mas present, and now I find I couldn't 

 do without it. The Deacon said, re- 

 cently, he meant to write the editor and 

 tell him what a lovely woman I am; that 

 when I look Recreation through and 

 through, read every article, note and ad- 

 vertisement, I actually let him take it long 

 enough to see the pictures. 



The only way to improve Recreation 

 is to give the camera people more show. 

 You have thousands of subscribers intensely 

 interested in camera work. Scarcely a 

 hunting or fishing party goes out in these 

 days that does not take a camera. My lit- 

 tle daughter gave me a 4*4 hand camera 

 a year ago Christmas. It was a perfect lit- 

 tle gem, with a lens of great accuracy and 

 without a flaw. From the first I did ex- 

 tremely careful, painstaking work. There 

 seemed no alternative. Molly Cotton 

 looked me in the eye and said: ''Now, 

 mama, you won't make those horrid bar- 

 rel-headed horses, and 3 legged babies, will 

 you?" It is difficult to live up to one's 

 own blue china. It is excruciating to try to 

 fulfill the ideals of a child. 



That night the Deacon said: "Now, 

 mother, get ready before you make pic- 

 tures; we don't want any of those rare 

 tobacco-browns with a yard of foreground." 



To cap the climax, when I went for my 

 first chemicals the clerk said: "Now, do 

 your best. We are expecting you to beat 

 the rest of these picture-makers." 



I went home, feeling that Atlas had 

 shifted his load to my shoulders, and, in- 

 stead of plunging into photographv, as I 

 had intended, I put my materials .^way, 

 hunted up all the authorities I could find, 

 sent for more, and set myself to learning 

 'first principles. Several people had told 

 me they had wasted from 6 to 9 boxes of 

 plates before they got a picture, and I was 

 anxious to save material and make a better 

 record. 



I studied hard and when I was sure of 

 my authority, my dark room, my chemi- 

 cals, and my ability to weigh and measure 

 them with exactitude, I began work. I 

 wasted comparatively no material, and, in a 

 few weeks made negatives that I sold in 

 Chicago and New York for magazine 

 illustrations and for advertisements. 



