. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . great must be carefully made beforehand, the photographicequipment must be complete and in perfect order, and theworker must be in readiness to take advantage of everyfavoring circumstance. My equipment at this time lacked thevery desirable reflecting camera, but I had two good long-focus cameras, a 4 x 5 and a 5x7, with good lenses anda telephoto lens besides. These I was determined to use forall they were worth, and with them I went systematicallyto work to take Pelican Is
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . great must be carefully made beforehand, the photographicequipment must be complete and in perfect order, and theworker must be in readiness to take advantage of everyfavoring circumstance. My equipment at this time lacked thevery desirable reflecting camera, but I had two good long-focus cameras, a 4 x 5 and a 5x7, with good lenses anda telephoto lens besides. These I was determined to use forall they were worth, and with them I went systematicallyto work to take Pelican Island and all its defending gar-rison. First I took a number of general views, snap-shots withcamera in hand, of the pelicans on their nests and in , with the camera on the tripod, I j^hotographed nests atclose range, with eggs and young, using the ball and socketclamp. When these general, I might sav routine, mattershad been disposed of, I had the rest of the time for thatfascinating, but often slow and exasperating, branch of thesubject — bird-portraiture. Over at the farther end of the. CITIES OF THE BROWN PELICANS 13 southwest settlement, the area of nests extended almost toa tract of tall weeds. Here I found it convenient to plant thecamera on the shortened tripod, allowing the tall weeds toarch over it, where it commanded a view of a number of nests
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