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May 26, 1904
The Daily Morning Journal And Courier
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
What is this article about?
An article describes the excitement of 'camera hunting' wild birds in Florida, where photographers capture images in flight without harm, valuing them more than gun kills for sharing with thousands. The writer prefers cameras over neglected guns, highlighting surprising bird poses like the cormorant's takeoff.
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THE CAMERA HUNTER
To the hunter with the camera every wild creature is lawful and desirable game, and the open season lasts 12 months in the year. It is a most exciting sport "shooting" at birds in flight. In Florida the camera hunter stops his boat in a good locality and withdraws the slide from the plate, and waits in instant readiness for whatever may come along. A water turkey wings past, visible, as it advances, upon the ground-glass. The middle finger and thumb of the left hand turn a screw and focus, the thumb of the right presses the trigger, and the bird is ours, though it still continues its rapid flight a thousandfold more valuable in this form than if maimed and mauled, for thousands of people can now see it, and the splendid scene as well. The writer is called a good shot with the gun, but what care I now for my gun-which hangs long neglected in a closet-as compared with my cameras! And what surprising things these flight pictures show! Who, for instance, would imagine that a bird could ever assume such a grotesque attitude as does the cormorant, when she springs from her nest?
-Country Life in America.
To the hunter with the camera every wild creature is lawful and desirable game, and the open season lasts 12 months in the year. It is a most exciting sport "shooting" at birds in flight. In Florida the camera hunter stops his boat in a good locality and withdraws the slide from the plate, and waits in instant readiness for whatever may come along. A water turkey wings past, visible, as it advances, upon the ground-glass. The middle finger and thumb of the left hand turn a screw and focus, the thumb of the right presses the trigger, and the bird is ours, though it still continues its rapid flight a thousandfold more valuable in this form than if maimed and mauled, for thousands of people can now see it, and the splendid scene as well. The writer is called a good shot with the gun, but what care I now for my gun-which hangs long neglected in a closet-as compared with my cameras! And what surprising things these flight pictures show! Who, for instance, would imagine that a bird could ever assume such a grotesque attitude as does the cormorant, when she springs from her nest?
-Country Life in America.
What sub-type of article is it?
Adventure
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Nature
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Camera Hunting
Wildlife Photography
Birds In Flight
Florida
Cormorant
Water Turkey
What entities or persons were involved?
The Writer
Where did it happen?
Florida
Story Details
Key Persons
The Writer
Location
Florida
Story Details
The writer extols camera hunting as an exciting, year-round sport for capturing wild birds in flight without harm, preferring it to gun hunting for its value in sharing images widely and revealing surprising bird behaviors like the cormorant's takeoff.