NATURE AND THE CAMERA HOW TO PHOTO- GRAPH LIVE BIRDS AND THEIR
NESTS ANIMALS, WILD AND TAME REPTILES INSECTS FISH AND OTHER
AQUATIC FORMS FLOWERS, TREES, AND FUNGI BY A. RADCLYFFE DUGMORE
AUTHOR OF BIRD HOMES ILL USTRA TED FROiV PHOTOGRA PHS BY THE A
UTHOK NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE CO. 1903 Nature and the Camera
WOOII-TIIKlrSH FAMILE. Phrtugraphrd thirty tert frum the mlund. The
vuunb am ready trr leave their nest. Copyright, lgoz DOUBLEDAY,
PAGE CO. This little book is dedicated, as a slight token of
esteem, to my friend H. W. L., who by the interest he has shown in
things natural has earned the gratitude of all students and lovers
of nature INTRODUCTION As a means of studying nature in most of its
many forms, there is, perhaps, nothing better than the camera. Not
only does it teach us to see much that would otherwise pass
unnoticed, but it enables us to make records of what we see-records
that are, as a rule, infinitely better and more useful than pencil
notes and the studying and photographing of one subject leads to
another, and so we go from birds to insects, from insects to
flowers, and from flowers to trees, until we have an acquaintance
with things natural more intimate and far broader in its scope than
would have resulted had we been content simply to try to see things
and write notes on them. Nowadays, when every school has or should
have its nature class, we find children scarcely out of the
kindergarten who know more about our wiId birds and flowers than
the great majority of the grown-up people to whom nature study was
an unknown thing when they were young. To foster this desire in
children to know more of the life about them is v v i INTRODUCTION
ones duty, for not only isthere great pIeasure to be derived from
such knowledge and healthful exercise in the search of material,
but knowing something about the birds, trees, or insects enables
them through- out life to work intelligently for the preservation
of that which needs protection. Garne laws would be respected more
generaIly if people would onIy realise what they mean. The
senseless and wanton killing of animal life that goes on all around
us would not be tolerated if there was more knowledge of the value
of such life. How often do we see people kilI hawks, thinking that
they are doing a good deed, just as the various Christian sects
burned or otherwise killed one another in days gone by, fully
believing that such acts were for the good of the world. Let the
man who kills a hawk or even a snake first in- quire into the
habits of that particular kind of hawk or snake, and usually he
will find that by killing it he will be doing harm to his own
interests. So it will be seen that there is much to be gained by
en- couraging the study of nature in any or all her forms, and, as
has already been said, there is nothing that will give the beginner
an interest in the subject any more quickly or with greater
certainty than the camera. Nearly every one, young or old,
possesses some variety of camera, and yet so few ever attempt the
portrayal of anything save people and views Let them direct their
energies toward photograph- INTRODUCTION vi i ing the details of
almost. any common object in na- ture, and they will be astonished
to find how much there is to interest them in that object. Take a
photograph of a landscape, and even though it may be beautiful, it
is, after all, much like hundreds of other landscapes.But take any
one of the objects represented in the view, such as the different
grasses, the flourers, or the trees, and how much more inter-
esting would they be if well photographed in detail It is in the
hope of helping those who are mereIy beginners in the art of
photographing any of the forns of nature that this little book is
offered...
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