. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . eat 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 cquii^ment at this time lacked thevery desirable reflecting camera, but I had two good long-focus cameras, a 4 x 5 and a 5 x 7, 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 I
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . eat 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 cquii^ment at this time lacked thevery desirable reflecting camera, but I had two good long-focus cameras, a 4 x 5 and a 5 x 7, 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 photographed nests atclose range, with eggs and yt)ung, using the ball and socketclamp. When these general, I might say 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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