Tlte Camera Anongst the Sca Rivds.

By Bexjayiy Wypes,

FELDING THE GULLS I SOUTHPORT PIER,

not many years ago by oa photograph containing what

purported to be o solitary sca- gull, and not interest alone. Controversy amongst the ex- perts alleged that it could not be a photograph dircet from Nature; it might be the photograph of a dead gull; or a stuffed gull added to its

background of waves, or 1t might be painted in by hand, but the only genuine gull i the case was the public, in believing such a thing possible. Smece then, better lenses, shutters for rapid expo- sure, and, above all, the mereased rapidity o the uelatino - hromide process, have combined tomake the mmpossible of that dav the practice of this, so that now a photographer with experience, under faarly favourable conditions, mav depict not ond, but many birds in flight, on a single plate. The ehiel difficulty is that of focusing an object constantly moving through widely varying planes. Such a photograph by the writer appeared in the June number of 1k STRAND MAGAZINE,

The flat sands of Southport make it almost

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ASPECTS OF GULLS FLYING (1).