USES OF A CAMERA. 
By J. C. Brakden. 
The -camp at Adventure Hay. South 
Bruuy, Tasmania, afforded excellent 
chances for those campers who had a 
camera. First of all there were pic¬ 
tures to be taken of the campers, and 
snap shots at random, with a lot left 
to chance as to what the result would 
he. This afforded the campers any 
amount of amusement. Then for the 
worker who wanted serious work, the 
Held was unlimited. Early morning be¬ 
fore the winds got up and the sun was 
still low in the sky. Cook's rivulet was 
a perfect paradise for the photographer. 
The water is dark-coloured, and the re¬ 
flections are wonderful. Then there 
were beach scenes, sea scapes in a won¬ 
derful variety, with the sea sometimes a 
leaden colour, and at others just like 
the very Highest polished silver. There 
were foreshore studies to he found even 
without looking for them. There were 
wild flowers and shrubs and ferns if 
the photographer felt like making pic¬ 
tures of them. There is Cape Cfonnelja. 
which is a place hard to heat for the 
variety of pictures to he made of its 
grand cliffs; .also Fluted tape rising 
about 1000 feet from the sea. made very- 
striking pictures; and for distant pano¬ 
ramas, from the tops of the capes and 
tlie mountains, the panorama was very- 
fine indeed. Some campers obtained ex¬ 
cellent photographs at the neck, and at 
Mills’ Reef (Alonuali) there were also 
fern glades and gullies with manferns 
of all sorts of mosses, which lend them¬ 
selves to the making of pictures with 
a camera. Then the waterfall was a 
very pretty place to work in. 
If the photographer cared for, or 
worked on stereoscopic photography, the 
place was suited to the subject in 
every way. Small picnic parties taken 
with* the stereo camera are alway s very 
interesting; also the cliffs standing up 
from the sea in the stereoscope, make 
that branch of photography- a very de¬ 
lightful study. Again on tlie Fluted 
C’aj e a number of rock columns made 
very- good subjects for the stereo camera 
with the sea below and rocks in the 
foreground. A camera worker who 
really enjoys his work and is anxious 
to secure as many, and as good sub¬ 
jects as he can, could not fail to have 
a very enjoyable holiday. Then in 
the evening when the sun was towards 
setting, the most glorious sunset and 
moonlight effects were seen, and were 
taken by some of the workers. 
A camera is a most suitable thing 
and a very desirable thing to have at a 
camp such as the Tasmanian Field Na¬ 
turalists' Club had at Easter. 1 am 
sure that those who did not have a 
camera to take round, and to encour¬ 
age them to go further and seek new 
places and scenes and pictures, must 
have missed a very great amount of 
the enjoyment to be got from the out¬ 
ing. 
In conclusion, I may say that those 
who took photographs and had pictures 
to show tlie other campers, were very 
proud of the work that was produced 
from the. camp, and the memory of the 
places and views will long remain with 
all of us. as of a most happy experience, 
and one which not one of the campers 
would have missed. 
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