. Woodland, field and shore : wild nature depicted with pen and camera . the tubeinstead of one. Another plan is to have a smallhole in the ball and to place a finger over thiswhen it is squeezed; then, by preventing the airfrom returning in the way mentioned, the ball canbe refilled without taking it off. I have exposedplates in this way with a great length of tubing. Another method is to use string. This is a capitalway of exposing the plates, as any length can beused, the only objection being that the shutter hasto be outside the camera. I have used about onehundred and fifty yards of strin
. Woodland, field and shore : wild nature depicted with pen and camera . the tubeinstead of one. Another plan is to have a smallhole in the ball and to place a finger over thiswhen it is squeezed; then, by preventing the airfrom returning in the way mentioned, the ball canbe refilled without taking it off. I have exposedplates in this way with a great length of tubing. Another method is to use string. This is a capitalway of exposing the plates, as any length can beused, the only objection being that the shutter hasto be outside the camera. I have used about onehundred and fifty yards of string successfully in alarge field. It is rather annoying, however, when 2 i8 WOODLAND, FIELD, AND SHORE a horse or a cow insists on feeding near, and bytouching the string sets off the shutter. I once hada horse get confusedly mixed up with such a string-connection, the result being that the cord was brokenand the plate exposed. I have now overcome all objections raised againstpneumatic, string, and other connections. My friendMr. Seamer and myself have made an electric. SONG-THRUSH, PHOTOGRAPHED UV .MEANS OF ELECTRICITY. release. It had been my desire for some timeto have such a thing, but it is only recently thatI have made it a success. There are great possi-bilities in store for bird photographers who useelectricity, and no one who engages in this workwill be able to afford to do without it, if he wishesto get the best pictures of our wildest birds. Any BIRDSNESTING WITH A CAMERA r length of wire can be used, and the most importantcharacteristic of the electric release is that the ex-posure is made the instant the button is pressed,so that no time is lost, as is the case with stringor have nowperfected myshutter, so thata bird practi-cally takes itso w n photo-graph b \means of elec-tricity. Foodis placed on abranch, or onthe ground, byway of attrac-tion, and whena bird alightsnear, the wiresare connected by the birds weight and the exposure is
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