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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



" For sport the lens is better than the gun. " 



/ wish to make this department of the utmost 

 use to amateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to 

 answer any questions ana to print any items sent 

 me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 

 ence in photography. 



PRIZE WINNERS IN sTH COMPETITION. 



Recreation's 5th annual photo compe- 

 tion closed September 30th, with 557 en- 

 tries, and it is gratifying to be able to say 

 the pictures submitted this year are fully 

 up to the high standard of those entered in 

 my previous contests. The judges who 

 awarded the prizes were, Dan Beard, the 

 well known artist and author; Dr. C. C. 

 Curtis, Professor of Botany in Columbia 

 University, and S. F. Taylor, a prominent 

 business man of this city and secretary of 

 the Commercial Club. These men are 

 eminently fitted in every way for this im- 

 portant work. All are enthusiastic ama- 

 teur photographers, and have made many 

 fine pictures. 



The first thing the judges did was to 

 go through the entire lot of pictures and 

 throw out all that were found impossible 

 as winners. On the ocher end of the table 

 they stacked up the possible winners, of 

 which there were over 300, while there 

 were but 38 prizes to be distributed. It 

 took all the afternoon to sift the 300 pic- 

 tures down to 38. Then there was another 

 long consideration as to how tl -se should 

 be arranged, and after a most arduous, 

 careful and cosncientious study they were 

 disposed of in the fallowing order: 



1st prize — Beavers Cutting and Drawing Wood, 

 made by W. E. Balch. 



2d prize — Our Daily Visitor, F. R. Woodward. 



3d — The Poacher, P. A. Tavernier. 



4th — W r hat Did I Hear? Clinton Smith. 



5th — A Choice Spider for the Babies, Geo. C. 

 Embody. 



6th — Young Pelicans in Nest, on Uninhabited 

 Mexican Island, S. W. Little. 



7th — Not at Home, F. C. Wisner. 



8th — Wra. Schwartz. 



9th — A Diamond Back Rattler, William H. 

 Fisher. 



10th— W r ho Said Rats? W. R. Smith. 



nth — Mending His Net, A. Emerine, Jr. 



12th — Here They Come, B. D. Brewster. 



13th — Who Would be Mean Enough to Kill Me? 

 C. C. Speight. 



14th — Young Hawks, R. J. McLaughlin. 



15th — Young Bitterns, H. K. Job. 



1 6th — A Camp Fire Yarn, Mrs. G. E. Conn. 



17th — At the Falls, J. Wilson. 



1 8th — Nest and Eggs of Mourning Doves, T. H. 

 Jackson. 



19th — Where Is He? A. H. Anderson. 



20th — They Left Their Happy Homes for Me, 

 I. S. Trostler. 



21 st — 'Po'ssum Fat Am Very, Very Fine, J. E. 

 Taylor. 



22nd — American Merganser. Name of photog- 

 rapher unknown. 



23rd- — An Unluckv Catch, Guion Miller. 



24th— Ring Neck Pheasant, William Simpson. 



25th— Hands Off, C. C. Speight, 



26th — Fetch, J. B. Proctor, 



27th— Slap Jacks for Breakfast, Charles W. 

 Dake. 



28th — An Interrupted Lunch, F. S. Merrill. 



29th — No, They Don't Bite To-day, Lyman II. 

 North. 



30th— The Noonday Lunch, H. G. Higbee. 



31st — The Start, A. H. Armstrong. 



32nd — Lawbreakers Beware, J. B. Pardie. 



33 r d — Careful, Perry Archibald. 



34th— A Bucker, C. Markle. 



35th — Clark's Nutcracker, Evan Lewis. 



36th — We Are Going to Have a Pet Gopher, 

 H. M. Wolf. 



37th — Sprigs Over Decoys, J. B. Brokaw. 



38th— We Must Get Him, We're Out of Meat, 

 J. H. Zinkon. 



The series of prizes as previously an- 

 nounced would end here, but there were 

 so many other fine pictures, the makers of 

 which the judges wished to reward, that I 

 decided to make a special class of 30 more 

 and to award the maker of each of these 

 pictures a year's subscription to Recrea- 

 tion, making 68 prizes in all. These next 

 30 are listed as follows: 



39th — A Dead Cinch, M. S. Wagner. 



40th — Good Medicine, J. R. Peterson. 



41st — Cruising, F. W. Mallet. 



42nd — A Rough Day on the Susquehanna, Wm. 

 H. Fisher. 



43rd — Just Loafing, Mrs. Chas. E. Bond. 



44th — Plenty of Room at the Top, J. D. Peter- 

 son. 



45th— At Bass Lake, W. D. Cockburn. 



46th — In the Dark Room, H. H. Bowen. 



47th— Dar's 'Possum Fo' All, Will H. Davis. 



48th — The Camera Girl, I. N. Cross. 



49th — After the Day's Sport — M. L. Anderson. 



50th— He Can't Get Away, R. W. Hardee. 



51st — A Fish on the Plate is Worth 2 in the 

 Creel, Martin Nuholson. 



52nd — A Beaver Lodge, G. Bickford. 



53rd — Baiting Up, Edith Smith. 



54th — Old Sport, F. E. Foster. 



55th— Are These My Babies? H. M. Beck. 



56th — I Guess Sevens Will be Right, Chas. W. 

 Long. 



57th — Off for a Cruise, M. B. Paine, Jr. 



58th — An April Shower, Chas. T. Springman. 



59th — Gathering Cat-tails, H. Slating. 



60th — Drop It! H. D. Cochrane. 



6 1 st— I'll Give Him Plenty of Time, T. W. 

 Bonney. 



62nd — The Flying Squadron, E. V. Long. 



63rd— Who Said Grub? William Stark. 



64th — Listening, Chas. W. Dake. 



6.sth— Bobbing for Bullheads, C. H. Filly. 



66th — The Packtrain, R. J. Fischer. 



67th — Retrieving a Grouse, A. E. Fischer. 



68th — The Value of Real Estate, William 

 Rickert. 



69th— Old Bob, Mrs. Nellie Scott. 



70th — My Pointer, H. D. Cochrane. 



The following pictures were highly com- 

 mended by the judges for various good 

 qualities: 



A Portrait, Andrew Emerine. 

 Told by the Camp Fire, Percy A. Taverner. 

 Fawn of Virginia Deer, F. S. Merrilll. 

 Horned Owl, J. B. Brokaw. 

 Brook Trout, H. D. Cochrane. 

 Critical Work, H. H. Bowers. 

 At Home, F. C. Wisner. 

 A Lesson in Developing, H. H. Bowen. 

 Feeding Time, Joseph W. Anderson. 

 Tough Weather, James M. Redfield. 

 Hustling for Minnows, Andrew Emerine. 

 Trout Fishing Near Platte Lake, Andrew 

 Emerine. 



Nighthawk on Nest, Herbert K, Job. 

 Caught in the Act, Evan Lewi^. 

 It Will Fly All Right, J. B. Pard e. 



