. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . that may turnlip—spare plates, lenses, etc., generally more than it ispossible to carry single-handed. JLven then it is as well,whenever after anything s]:)ecial, to leave your man at alittle distance, and go on alone. I try always to plan outbeforehand each davs Mork : but one nuist alwavs be Photography for Naturalists 2:? prepared to alter or modify, or e\en completely re\erse,all ones plans at a moments notice, for the least thingmay render them all useless. This branch of photography will be found of mostabsorbing interest
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . that may turnlip—spare plates, lenses, etc., generally more than it ispossible to carry single-handed. JLven then it is as well,whenever after anything s]:)ecial, to leave your man at alittle distance, and go on alone. I try always to plan outbeforehand each davs Mork : but one nuist alwavs be Photography for Naturalists 2:? prepared to alter or modify, or e\en completely re\erse,all ones plans at a moments notice, for the least thingmay render them all useless. This branch of photography will be found of mostabsorbing interest, provided one has. to start with, thenecessary enthusiasm, without which the many failures andthe constant disappointments would soon prove overwhelming. The worst of it is, that when a good photograph ofany bird has been (obtained—as good, that is, as can bereasonably expected—or even when it is the \ery best thatcan be possibly done by photography, it falls so lamentablyshort of the beautv of the orioinal. CHAPTER II Automatic Photography by Electricity. S)OONBlLL {Platalca Icucorodui). Sincp: writinothe foregoingcluipter, theidea o f theautomatic elee-t r i e releasetil ere in sug-gested lias be-come an ac-c o m p 1 i s h e dfact. In 11)01 1devised an elec- tric shutter to l)e actuated automatically by the pressure ofa birds foot, and in the chapter dealing with I^ird I^ifein Dutch ^Marshes will be found an account of how it wasused successfully in portraying an unconscious Purple Heronin the very act of stepping on to its nest. This was in themidst of a certain meer, which must remain nameless, wherethese Herons, so common on the Continent, but so extremely Automatic Photography by Electricity 25 nire on our side of tlie Cluiimel, nest in ^vcat nunil) advantaoe in this very interesting nietliod of photo-trappino- is tiiat it enables one to work with several cameras,as is e\-ideneed by the fact that, at the very time the PurpleHeron was conipletino- the electri
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