El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-27

tual events OF pONtlcal ana natural MS
tory. During the siege of Port Arthur
it was said that the only man who
welcomed a shell was a certain pho
tOgrapher who made d speciality of tax
ing pictures of shells just about to ex-
plode in midair. Two photographers
clad in asbestos clothing ventured far
into the crater of the great volcano
of KiIauea, and there took moving pic
lures of the tumultuOus fires of earth's
great interior furnace Whoever has
seen these pictures cast on the peace
full screen of a perfectly safe lecture
hall can pay tribute to the daring of
those two men,
The photographers who have sought
to photograph wild animals and birds
in their native haunts, are the heroes
of scores of hair-breadth apes. There
are several notable nature photograph
ers who have done much work in Afri-
ca.
One of the most famous, DugmOre.
has done much work by flashlisht, get
ting pictures of lions and other danger
Gus animals at close range in the dark
Dugmore also took a photograph of an
Infatuated rhinOcerOus at distance
of 5 yards, when the huge animal &C
tually was charging upon him and his
camera. Just as the exposure was made
DugmOre's companion shot the beast
The KeatOn brothers, who made the
moving pictures of the Roosevelt hunt,
have done much work in photograph
ing wild birds. This requires great
skill, infinite patience and abundant
physical strength. They have Kept still
in cramped positions for hours at a
time, waiting for the one instant Of
work They have concealed their cam
era in stuffed sheep, with the lens
in a hole in the breast, and they have
themselves staIked their game in the
body of an Oxskin.
Ingenious Plans Adopted.
Photographers often are very much
put to it to devise ways and means of
taking difficult pictures A film Of the
Hudson tunnels was wanted. A large
lamps and run through the subway as
the second section of the train to be
photographed. The aggregate candle
power of these lamps was more than
$4,000, and when the film was COM
pleted, one could see the whole process
of subway travel. from the boarding
of the train under the city of New
York to the arrival through the gates
at Jersey City.
PhOtOgraphinE Bullets.
, PhOtographing a flying bullet would
seem to be an impossible feet, yet the
photographer has so perfected his SEN
sitive plate that even a bullet may
seem to stand still while being pho
tographed. OF course, no shutter IS
fast enough to catch a bullet when go
ing at top speed, so the alternative is
taken of maintaining the camera with
the shutter open in absolute darkness
As the bullet passes out of the gun,
1t completes a circuit which makes
very bright but short-lived electric
spark.
1t is dIring the immeasurably short
life of this spark that the impression
of the bullet, with all of the surround
ing details, is made on the Photographic
plate. Shutters have been perfected
which will open and close in the thou
sandth part Of a second The eye Of
the Photographic plate is able to see
the spokes of an automobile wheel as
standing still when the machine IS go
ing more, than q mile a minute The
human eye cannot detect the details
of the Spokes of a wheel when the ma
chine is going 10 miles an hour
Taking Appreciated.
Photography is the one profession
in which taking is honorable and a
means of profit When the grandson
of the emperor of Germany was born,
its grandfather was hundreds of miles
away. Before he returned. there were
pictures in the market showing the
grandson sitting on his lap, with its
Of course, the world recognized that
the picture was faxed, and its value
lay in the fact that the ingenuity of
the faker was appreciated. In Wash
ingtOn there is a photographer who
every year produces a picture showing
all the prominent men who attend the
opening of congress grouped SaSout the
steps of the capitol. This picture is
artificially worked up. but it has an
extensive sale
Many Commercial Photographers.
It is said that there are more than
10000 professional photographers in the
United States today. An interesting
sidelight on the extensive business done
by the makers of phOtograp hic appara-
tuS and material is shown by the fact
that one corporation alone enjoyed net
earnings, last year amounting to nearly
S7.OOO,O 900.
Commercial photography has been
finding new fields of activity almost
every day during recent years. With
the balloon and kite, wonderful land
scape pictures have been secured, with
the submarine camera the commercial
photographer is able to get pictures OF
the inhabitants of the ocean in their
native haunts, and no place in sea or
sky is safe from the eye of the camera
of the ubiquitous photographer.
communicating Of Plumbers.