Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-02

ton and good shadow effects. 1t re-
manned for the Wallihans to produce
the first wild animal photographs
of genuine artistic merit-at least
in this country.
Since then, the list Of art photog-
raphers of wild animal life has
grown by leaps and bounds until to-
day it would be impossible to give
honorable mention to all of them in
the space of this article. AS an in
spiration for the reader who would
lay down his gun for a kodak, how
ever, we recommend the work of DR..
William Hornaday, John M. Phil
lips, George Shiras Especially his
fashlight %pictures): Carl E. Akeley,
Norman McClintock, Edwin R. San
born, Kermit Roosevelt, Edmund
Heller, w. Lyman Underwood and A.
Radcliffe Dugmore, who was the
first to produce Photographic mas
terpieces of African game.
Those who DOUBT the sporting OPP
portunities of camera hunting as
compared with gun hunting, should
be impressed by the account of Mr..
| Dugmore's African expedition, given
by Mr.. James L.. Clark, well known
New York taxidermist, who accom-
panied Dugmore and shared his
thrilling hazards in obtaining photo
| graphs of lions, hippotamuses and
rhinoceroses.
"As we topped a little knoll m
J morning." relates Mr.. Clark, w
saw about 100 yards ahead of us in
the yellow grass, the black outline
of a rhinoceros back. We approach
ed to about eighty yards where we
had a good view of him, and from
this point Dugmore took a tele-
photo picture. Although in plain
slight, we moved slowly and eau
tiously toward him and at about six
ty yards Dugmore took another pic
ture. Being sure of two pictures, he
then changed his lens to n with
a shorter focus while the rhinocer-
Gus showed no sign of knowing of
our presence. We walked to a spot
about forty yards from him. where
Dugmore focused the camera, while
the r~hinocerous deliberately lay
down. This was a sure sign that we
had not been detected and we both
gave a sigh of relief. Dugmore, how
ever whispered-'Splendid!' Now we
can walk up very close without his
seeing u.s.
This was no place for an argu-
ment, so as he started forward I fol-
| lowed, my finger on the trigger of
the gun AS eaCl cautious step
brought us closer and closer and my
breath grew shorter and shorter
1 wondered if Dugmore were ever
going to stopi At a little over twen-
ty yards from the big rocklike mass
he hesitated and began to focus his
camera, while the rhinocerous's ears
twitched n~ervously. My gun, which
seemed to weigh many pounds, came
slowly to my shoulder. The next
moment there was a snort, a cloud
of dust and a big rhinocerous was
coming straight toward us. 1 set my
teeth, held the gun and listened for
the click of the camera. Dugmore
let him get well on his feet and I'M
der way when a click and a bang
in quick succession decided the bat
tie in our favor. At fifteen yards
distance the rhinocerous bit the
dust, scrambled to his feet, wheeled
and made Off"
]. M. Phillips is another photog-
rapher who has run the most appall-
ing risks in order to secure photo
graphic studies of such difficult an
finals as mountain goats. DR.. Horn
aday tells of n cas- in which Phil
lips cornered a big male white noun
tain goat on a high, knife edge of
rock and kept him there until he
was thoroughly photographed.