. British birds. Birds. REVIEWS Photography for Bird-Lovers. By Bentley Beetham, Square 8vo., 126 pp., 16 plates. (Witherby & Co.) 5s. net. Although single chapters are to be found in several illustrated bird-books, we have hitherto been without a complete guide to the sport and art of bird- and nest-photography. Mr. Beet ham's book is therefore all the more welcome, and its having been written by the accomplished author of the recently pubhshed Home-life of the Spoonbill, guarantees that the methods which it describes must be entirely on the right lines for the successful accomphsh
. British birds. Birds. REVIEWS Photography for Bird-Lovers. By Bentley Beetham, Square 8vo., 126 pp., 16 plates. (Witherby & Co.) 5s. net. Although single chapters are to be found in several illustrated bird-books, we have hitherto been without a complete guide to the sport and art of bird- and nest-photography. Mr. Beet ham's book is therefore all the more welcome, and its having been written by the accomplished author of the recently pubhshed Home-life of the Spoonbill, guarantees that the methods which it describes must be entirely on the right lines for the successful accomphshment of this difficult but fascinating pursuit. It is safe to say that besides the ordinary difficulties of photography, there are few branches of sport or art that are more full of disappointments, or call for a greater exercise of patience and ingenuity, than bird-photography. Hitherto each worker has had to gain his experience and perfect his methods, almost entirely through the many failures and rare successes of his own exertions ; now, however, given a \^•orking knowledge of ordinary photographic methods, the beginner in bird-work will only have to follow care- fully Mr. Beetham's directions and suggestions, and he wiU know that he is working on the right Hnes. There wiU still be plenty of opportunity for the exercise of ingenuity in overcoming the multitude of difficulties that each species and the varying situations present, but these are best left for each individual to overcome for himseK, as they are such that only experience can teach, and it would clearly be impossible to tabulate them in text-book form. Although we were a Uttle disappointed at first to find nothing startlingly new in Mr. Beetham's book, it is very gratifying to find how closely the working methods evolved by so clever an exponent of the art, agree with one's own. Beginning with two chapters on the general scope of the work and the apparatus required, the author takes the beginner by easy stages
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