Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1907 Fifty-second Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
- Great Crested Grebe (three studies from life)
- Exhibitor:
- W. Farren
- Section:
- Scientific and Technical Photography and its Application to Processes of Reproduction
- Exhibit No.:
- 352
- Description:
- Before leaving their nest, Grebes, always cover the eggs with some of the decaying vegetation of which the floating nests are constructed. In the first photograph the female bird is approaching the nest. Before settling down she uncovered the eggs, arranging the material round the edge of the nest. The slight noise made whilst changing plates after taking the second photograph alarmed the bird and she slipped into the water without having covered the eggs. She, however, remained long enough near the nest for the third photograph to be taken, which, in addition to a portrait of the swimming bird, shows, by comparison with No. 1, how conspicuous an object the nest becomes with the eggs uncovered.
- Exhibit type:
- Photograph
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
- Prices:
- Original Framed 12/6
