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December 25th, 2015: Wildlife Pictures
George Shiras III was born in 1859 in Allegheny, PA. An avid hunter in his youth, became a lawyer then a politician.
Then got into photography, especially wildlife. Ho hum, another rich dude with an expensive hobby. But talking to the Ojibwa tribe he learned about jacklighting. They would put a pan of fire in the bow of a canoe and wait for animals to come to the waters edge to investigate, then shoot them. Shiras put that together with his camera, and in the 1890s became the father of wildlife photography. Then he set up a system of wires and pieces of equipment on land to catch wildlife in the forest... the first trailcam. He was hooked, traded his rifle for traveling all over the country photographing wild life and scenery like Yellowstone. These were the days of bulky equipment and glass plate photography, no instamatic or smart phone shit. Quote:
Gil Grosvenor invited him to the National Geographic offices to see his pictures and publish almost all of them. Quote:
Here's two links where you can see more of his work and details of his story.
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