Show kermet IN tl PRESIDENT S SON PREPARING FOR AFRICAN HUNTING TRIP practicing on animals in bronx park new york to qualify as official photographer of the alve expedition new yorks zoological garden has become the training school for kermet roosevelt who Is trying his hand at kermet roosevelt snap shooting all the big animals con fined there in preparation for becom ing the official photographer of the proposed south african hunting trip p his father frank M chapman the world famous ornithologist and most expert photographer ol 01 moving barda and animals in the united states Is acting as the young mans coach in teaching him the use of what Is known as the hunting camera while a more thorough and detailed course of instruction is being given to soung kermet mr chapman also has been giving the president himself a cry complete technical idea as to the probable requirements of picture tak ing in the bags game storehouse of the world british east africa which Is tobe the scene of tha roosevelt expedition the presidents and boung kermet s studies in bird and big game photos have been kept a close secret the now york zoological garden waa selected celec ted as the scene of the latter a extraordinary because of ita large collections of birds and from every part of the world its size and extent and the opportunity it of or privacy while on saturdays sundays and the other free days of the week the zoological park Is largely patronized on mondays and thurs dais the pay days during the summer months comparatively few people visit the big institution this park now Is the finest in the world surpassing those of the great capitals of europe which for yean have been supreme an reason for the selection of the new york zoological garden for the photo graphic and scientific training of tin presidents son Is that its curators an all men of national it not world alda reputation in their especial fields the lad roosevelt under the tuta lage of mr chapman has been study ing and taking pictures of birds ant animals under what approaches a con dialon of nature ills specific trainan trai photographically has been in the durec alon of handling the long focus lens by means of which it Is possible t photograph an animal at a of feet and get him in perfect de tall there Is a much greater amoun of skill and experience required in th handling of this class of lens than arf the ordinary photographic camera the short objective kind however almost any fairly intelligent man car learn to become an adequately good operator with the long focus object lv in several weeks the fact that when the photograph i of the trip to and through africa be gin to be taken the expedition alu be many hundreds of miles from chiv makes it essential that th photographic outfit shall be complete to its minutest detail and that its opera alon shall be in the hands of an expert to secure the surest result the dents son will carry along a photo graple kit whose value probably will approximate 2 and the safe transportation por tation of the delicate cameras and the hundreds of easily broken plates will be one of the most ticklish problems of the long journey it will not be practicable to carry films to any extent because of the climatic condl alons in the hot and humid regions whither the expedition Is going films are likely to stick together like post age stamps in a fat man s pocket on a steaming day and thus become useless or else become so mottled by the moist air that they are worth less not the beast interesting ahng about this course of photographic study the field by Is thit it marks an altogether new departure on tha part of the president as a huntsman |