El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-14
Sport With the Camera

TUNTNG with the camera is fast taking the place of hunting with firearms,
among real sporhmen Comparing the two forms Of sport hunting with
= 4 the camera requires ten times the skill, patience wit, caution, knowledge
of anma habits, clever imitation Of animal sounds instructive syness and self
control that are required by hunting with firearms
Real sport in hunting consists in matching human wit against the wisdom
OF instinct Of the animal The mere killing that commonly Passes for hunting IS
too often simple butchery, and not sport at all Unless there be a realm matching
of wit against wit a real test of skill between man and beast, there is n o sport
It is in the ezhHawim of such a conquest that sport consists, not in the killings
and the shedding OF blood, which IN itself can have nj Jusuncanon except the
desire u the need Of nan for animal food and his preference for wild meat
All the requirements of real sport in hunting are met by the camera plan
The gun may be taken in order to provide meat fr the party Ot so la "a TIT
real hunt is concerned, there is far more sport for sporty sPOrtsmen in the camera
hunt than in the gun hunt
and the prices bring them within reach of most people. A camera may be had for
the price Of a few sOdas or N may spend $500 to $500 for a portable equipment
for amateur work in the field.
The main thing is for every amateur Il strive to advance tt som degree in
understanding and ueO of the Gamers Even a little knowledge Of the science and
ut OF photography VIII add very greatly to the pleasure or amateur Work with
the camera And amateurs for their own pleasure and profit should try to get
away from the haokneyed and commonplace subjects and attempt the unusual,
the difficult the interesting thing
Most people in the first stages of amateur photography do not see the really
artistic subjects they do not see the interesting OF exceptional, but use up their
films On the most commonplace things, such Is barren street scenes uninhTestng
groups portraits with n sembance of artistic merit or hfikenes4 landscapes
chosen without reference to proper balance and perspective
Of the other clements of successful photography. Most amateur photographs IRE
underezpOed The snapshot camera is all right in hands even moderately
experienced, but it S a disappointment to persons who refuse to inform themselves
upon the fundamentals of the art of photography
There is much to know if one would do well even the simplest things in
photography. And the charm of photography for the amateur considered as a
sport OF as a diversion, al amusemen and avocaton, is the imposib1ity of ever
Ovetaking the muse. No photographer ever feels that he has mastered ANYTHING
about his art The men longest in the work are the first to declare that they
know nothing And a new and wider view always opens up to the enthusiastic
worker the moment he begins to feel that he has begun to exhaust the possibilities
of M division
There is n limit to the pleasure m can derive from intelligent pursuit of
amateur photography as a pastme For widening vision it may be compared to
climbing mountains except that on never reaches the top
Let FL Paso go in force to the Albuquerque fair The auto rn may well be
made as the initial stage of the SECT acquainted" excursion The special train
can III to Albuquerque and the auto travellers can take it there The exchange
of courtesy viii cost mighty little and it viii be a great help t. the progress of
the Rocky Mountain Southwest
In Texas there are over 100000 children of school age, and several hundred
ment should be made on a basis of actual attendance then perhaps the laggard
counties and towns would be spuued to do something for themselves and raise
the schools tt a decent standard.
Nothing but cooperation among the farmers themselves will solve the
marketing problem for this valley.