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1951 Exhibition of Nature Photography 
WE ARE HAPPY to print below a prize-winning photograph from the Sixth 
Chicago International Exhibition of Nature Photography. This competition, 
sponsored by the Nature Camera Club of Chicago, consisted of color slides 
and both colored and black and white prints of nature subjects. The ob- 
jective of the competition was “to make the photographer a better natural- 
ist; the naturalist, a better photographer.” 
The accepted photographs, selected from over 2800 pictures by a panel 
of six outstanding photographers and naturalists, were used to create a 
print display in the main hall of the Chicago Natural History Museum 
during the month of Iebruary, and a slide showing which was held in 
James Simpson Theater on two Sunday afternoons. Mr. Eliot Porter of 
Santa Fe, New Mexico, submitted four prints and won three honorable 
mentions and one medal award, an exceptional achievement in a major 
competition. His portrait of nestling barn swallows appears with the per- 
mission of Mr. H. J. Johnson, chairman of the exhibition committee of the 
Nature Camera Club. 
BARN SWALLOW By Eliot Porter 
