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RECREATION. 



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 and to print any items sent 

 me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 

 ence in photography. 



8th ANNUAL COMPETITION. 



Recreation has conducted 7 amateur 

 photographic competitions, all of which 

 have been eminently successful. The 8th 

 opened April 1st, 1903, and will close No- 

 vember 30th, 1903. 



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- Vista-Panoramic Camera, 

 made by the Multiscope and Film Co., Burling- 

 ton, Wis., and listed at $40. 



Fourth prize: A Royal Anastigmat Lens, 4x5, 

 made by the Rochester Lens Co., Rochester, N. 

 Y. ; listed at $36. 



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

 made by Abercrombie & Fitch, New York, 

 and listed at $32. 



Sixth prize: A No. 3 Focusing Weno Hawk- 

 eye Camera, made by the Blair Camera Co., 

 Rochester, N. Y., and listed at $27.50. 



Seventh prize: A,, high grade Fishing Reel, 

 made by W. H. Talbot, Nevada, Mo., and listed 

 at $20. 



Eighth prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 

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

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



Ninth: prize: A Bristol Steel Fishing Rod, 

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

 and listed at $8. 



Tenth prize: A pair of High Grade Skates, 

 made by Barney and Berry, Springfield, Mass., 

 and listed at $6. 



The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 

 one dozen 8 x 10 Carbutt Plates, made by the 

 Carbutt Dry Plate Co., Wayne Junction, Phila- 

 delphia, 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 Goerz 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 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 

 may send, 1, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad- 

 dressed Photographic Editor, Recreation, 

 say, for instance : 



No. 1 is entitled . 



Made with a camera. 



lens. 



On a 



Printed on 



plate. 



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 warn- 

 ing. 



PRIZE WINNERS IN THIS ISSUE. 



I took the photograph "We Want Our 

 Mudder" on a showery day, between clouds, 

 with the sun shining, at about 2.30 p. m.. 

 May 17, 1902, on Christina lake, British 

 Columbia, 35 miles North of Republic, 

 Washington, my friend Elmer Ness climb- 

 ing the stump. The photograph was made 

 with a Premo Senior camera, Bausch & 

 Lomb lens, and printed on platinum paper. 

 Length of exposure, 1-5 of a second. 



At the time Mother Bear was shot we 

 did not dream of her having young, other- 

 wise we would have refrained from shoot- 

 ing and allowed the mother to go on in 

 completion of her office of mothering her 

 little cubs. I could not help shedding tears 

 when we found the little innocent cubs, 

 alas now motherless, perched on the top- 

 most part of the decayed tree, crying like 

 babies for their mother. The killing of the 

 old mother we can not boast of as sports- 

 manlike, but it may be classed by certain of 

 our Western hunters as clean hunting. 

 Murder can never be considered by true 

 sportsmen one of the fine arts, and we 

 apologize to Coquina for the unintentional, 

 unwarranted act in this instance, lest he 

 give us the usual roast, through Recrea- 



