MERIT AWARD 
Historical Photographs 
Cary Hull 
This scene in the redwood region of 
northern California is reproduced 
from a glass-plate negative exposed 
about 1 905 by a professional 
photographer, Jesse A. Meiser. 
Meiser, who died in 1939, had his 
primary studio in Eureka, 
California. The photograph was 
entered in our competition by Cary 
Hull, who printed a collection of 
Meiser’ s glass plates and has 
reproduction rights to the prints. In 
addition to doing free-lance 
photographic work, Hull is a 
conservationist with the Soil 
Conservation Service. He lives in 
Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
HONORABLE MENTION 
Animals 
Richard Schoer 
While in the Monte Verde Cloud 
Forest Reserve in Costa Rica, 
Richard Schoer wanted to 
photograph Bufo periglenes, the 
secretive “golden toad.” Ranger 
“Wolf’ Guindon advised him that 
the best time to find members of this 
species was* in the middle of the 
night, during their mating season. 
These are males that have come to a 
water hole to await the appearance 
of females. Schoer, a resident of 
New York City, works as a free- 
lance photographer and sculptor’s 
assistant. 
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