Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . Farmers Magazine HUNTING WITH THE CAMERA. jN treating- of this art as I have foundit during- ,my life it may not be amissto state that at the early age of ten Iwas sent from my home in Turriff to adistant farm to serve as a herd boy.(Those were the days when I firstthought of drawing animals with pencilon paper). While keeping the cows from thecorn, and doing odd jobs about thefarm, I had an enforced introductionto the beasts of the field; with the birdsof the air I had already formed an I would spend my time studying them, search-
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . Farmers Magazine HUNTING WITH THE CAMERA. jN treating- of this art as I have foundit during- ,my life it may not be amissto state that at the early age of ten Iwas sent from my home in Turriff to adistant farm to serve as a herd boy.(Those were the days when I firstthought of drawing animals with pencilon paper). While keeping the cows from thecorn, and doing odd jobs about thefarm, I had an enforced introductionto the beasts of the field; with the birdsof the air I had already formed an I would spend my time studying them, search-ing for their haunts, watching their habits, and theresoon grew on me that deep love for dumb creatureswhich later inspired me inmy photographic disadvantage of be-ing removed from schoolat this early age wascounterbalanced by theadvantage of beingbrought face to facewith Nature. The trans-fer from one sphere ofinfluence to another fav-ored an original outlookon life, which is moreor less denied to thosewhose mental develop-ment has been entirelydue to indoor
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