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Title: Nature and the camera; how to photograph live birds and their nests; animals, wild and tame; reptiles; insects; fish and other aquatic forms; flowers, trees, and fungi
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dugmore, Arthur Radclyffe, 1870-
Subjects: Nature photography
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
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still-hunter, and where is your photograph?Gone! Whereas had you been using the rirfe youmight easily have bagged your game. Stalk a bigbull moose, even though it be during the close season,and unless you by chance find an animal that is absurdlytame, as occasionally they are, you will find excite-ment enough if you would come within fifty feet ofthe big creature. Learn all you can about still-hunting, do not relax your vigilance, and take no-thing on chance, and you may succeed; fail in anyone precaution, and you will have no picture. Once when I was on a trip trying to secure somemoose pictures, I came across a fine large bull ; thesituation was perfect from a pictorial point of view.He was in a large pond where the lily-pads wereabundant; in the near background was a bank oftrees, mostly birch ; beyond stood Mount Katahdin inthe misty distance; the moose was feeding in shallowwater, the light was bright, and as the wind was inthe right direction, everything pointed to a successful
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Y. PHOTOGRAPHING ANIMALS 75 picture. We were in a canoe; slowlv and noiselesslywe came through the smooth water ; scarcely a ripfiledid the canoe make. Nearer and nearer, and still thebull had not seen us. When within about seventyfeet (I was using a telephoto lens) I stood up slowlyand quietly, while the animal was busy feeding. Nosooner was I in position than he looked up. A hnerpicture could not be imagined. His enormous ant-lers, still in the velvet, seemed almost out of propor-tion to his size. And he stood absolutely still whileI, trembling with excitement, focussed the cameraand pressed the button. Instantly the huge beastmade a dash for the shore and in a second was lostto view, and I sat down congratulating mvself onhaving secured such a splendid picture. Imaginemy disgust when, on going to change the plate-holder,I discovered that in my excitement I had neglectedto draw the slide. My chance was gone, and neveragain did another such opportunity present itself.All of which onl

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