Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1907 Fifty-second Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
- Snipe. Six Studies from Life.
- Exhibitor:
-
- Section:
- Scientific and Technical Photography and its Application to Processes of Reproduction
- Exhibit No.:
- 346
- Description:
- Snipe still nest in fair numbers in the Fens of East Anglia. The photographs were taken in the marshes on the border of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. The six Studies, comprising three different individuals, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, are of one bird; in No. 1 she is shown turning the eggs, and in No. 2 she is entering the nest. No. 5 is the only photograph secured of an exceedingly shy bird. The photographs of sitting birds shew how well the pattern, with longitudinal light markings, assimilates with the surrounding grass stems; this is best shewn in Nos. 2 and 5. Nos. 4 and 6 are portraits of a third bird. She at first regarded with suspicion the obstacle in which the photographer was concealed, but her investigation quickly reassured her that there was no danger, for she thrust her long bill down among the moss and grass, shook her feathers loose and assumed a natural pose for her portrait, quite free of any sign of “camera fright.”
- Exhibit type:
- Photograph
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
- Prices:
- Original Framed 15/-
