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RECREATION. 



AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



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

 7 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 experi- 

 ence in photography. 



PRIZE WINNERS IN THE 7TH 

 COMPETITION. 



Once more the hopes of a number of 

 enthusiastic amateur photographers are 

 realized, and once more a larger number 

 are disappointed. This must always be so 

 in any competition. As in betting on horse 

 races, there must be winners and losers. 

 Unfortunately in these photo competitions 

 there must be at least 10 losers to one 

 winner. This is because I can not afford 

 to offer prizes enough to reward all the 

 good photographers. 



There were 830 entries in Recreation's 

 7th Annual Competition, and I am proud 

 to say the pictures, as a whole, ranked 

 higher than in any of the 6 previous con- 

 tests. As usual, many pictures were en- 

 tered that were not quite good enough to 

 win ; but the work in this class ranked 

 liip her than ever before. 



As in all such contests, many fine pic- 

 tures were submitted that did not comp 1 y 

 with the conditions, though these have been 

 printed in every number of Recreation 

 for 6 months past. If photographers would 

 only read these printed instructions care- 

 fully, they would not send in so many in- 

 eligible pictures. For instance, there were 

 several groups of pretty children, simply 

 posed before the camera as a portrait pho- 

 tographer would pose them. There were 

 several groups of kittens, and one grono 

 of pigs. There were a number of fine pic- 

 tures of waterfalls or of mountains. There 

 was one view of a flock of sheep, and there 

 were 2 or 3 others of herds of cattle. Such 

 pictures do not represent any form of in- 

 door or outdoor sport or recreation, hence 

 could not be considered by the judges in 

 awarding prizes. If the people who made 

 some of these pictures had turned their 

 attention to studies of some form of sport, 

 or to wild animals or birds, they might 

 to-day be enjoying the distinction of hav- 

 ing won good prizes, instead of finding that 

 their names are not included in the prize 

 list. 



The judges in this competition were 

 A. S. Higgins, of Higgins & Seiter, glass 

 and china ware, New York city; E. R. 

 Sanborn, official photographer of the New 

 York Zoological Park, and H. C. Christy, 

 the famous pastel artist. 



The judges spent 6 hours in assorting 

 and classifying the pictures and in placing 

 the awards, and it is safe to say no men 

 ever studied harder or acted more con- 



scientiously in any such position than 

 these men did. They are, therefore, en 

 titled to the hearty thanks and approval of 

 every contestant, whether he won a prize 

 or not- 



The prizes were awarded as follows : 



1 st, A Pair of Lynxes in a Tree, E. J. Kerlee. 

 2nd, Group of 4 pictures of White Goats on the 

 Rocks, A. M. Collins. 



3rd, Wood Duck Shooting on Squawk Slough, 

 R. C. Cameron, on condition that he satisfy the 

 judges as to the bird shown in the picture. 



4th, Group of 12 pictures of Live Wild Animals 

 and Birds, Dr. J. B. Pardoe. 



5th, Group of 10 pictures of Live Wild Animals 

 and Birds, Wm. H. Fisher. 



6th, Group of 6 pictures of Moose, Dr. J. M. 

 Rainie. 



7th, Mule Deer, W. B. More. 

 8th, Group of 6 pictures of Live Wild Birds, 

 and of Fishing Scenes, J. E. Stanley. 



Special Prize, Group of 14 pictures of Live 

 Wild Animals and Birds, J. E. Tylor. 

 9th, Humming Bird, Morey Jamison. 

 10th, "We Want our Mudder," G. E. Stro- 

 bridge. 



nth, Young Screech Owls, Walter W. Savery. 

 12th, Still Life, W. T. Adderley. 

 13th, Blue Heron at Home, and A Lazy Fisher- 

 man, W. H. Thurston. 



14th, Group of 3 bird pictures, A. L. Prince- 

 horn. 



15th, Black Bear at Home in the Rockies, 

 J. Bauer. 



1 6th, Chipmunk and Squirrel, J. Bauer. 

 17th, Group of bird pictures, James H. Miller. 

 1 8th, Group of bird and chipmunk pictures, R. 

 H. Beebe. 



19th, Caught Napping, F. C. Evans. 

 20th, Screech Owl and Nighthawk, C. C 

 Speight. 



2 1 st, The Lone Fisherman, Gardner Cornett. 

 22d, Yellow Bellied Sapsucker and Ruffed 

 Grouse, Geo. C. Embody. 



23d, Ruffed Grouse on Nest, A. B. Gunderson. 

 24th, On His Favorite Log, E. H. Nelson. 

 25th, Curiosity Nearly Satisfied, A. N. Flinn. 

 26th, Little Jack, Guy V. Rukke. 

 27th, Grey Gopher, H. O. Bjornaas. 

 28th, Ruffed Grouse on Nest, E. F. Worcester. 

 29th, Preparing Supper, F. A. Burr. 

 30th, Home of the Brook Trout, W. S. Kirby. 

 31st, A Grand Stand Parry, The Foiled Re- 

 poiste, A Narrow Margin, E. R. Logan. 



32d, A Hard One to Land and Duck on Nest, 

 Perry Archibald. 



33d, Duck Pointing. Wm. R. Magee. 

 34th, A Night in Camp, Chas, B. Wright. 

 35th, Three Jolly Tars, E. S. Wilson. 

 36th, The Finish at Sundown, The Conspira- 

 tors, Right on Time, D. W. Flint. 



37th, Group of s camp pictures, Thos. A. Mor- 

 gan. 



38th, Ruffed Grouse Drumming, David Spence. 



Only 38 prizes were offered in the com- 

 petition, but there were so many good pic- 

 tures in excess of that number that I 

 have decided to award a special prize of a 

 yearly subscription to Recreation for each 

 of the following: 



39th, A Swan, George C. Hunt. 

 40th, The Anxious Moment, Walter C. Nichol. 

 41st, Nat, Mrs. W. N. Manchester. 

 42d, Salmon Fishing in Newfoundland, Hugh 

 H. Fraser. 



Prairie Chickens, Chas. Birgin. 



An Easy Shot, Sydney B. Thomas. 



Swallow's Nest, W. C Webster. 



Young Kingbird, Louis Johnson. 



Caught Napping, F. C. Evans. 



A Wild Calf Moose, Hy. S. Walker, Jr. 



