Show MADE GOOD WITH CAMERA kermit Roosevel ts photographs ta ken in africa are looked on ms as masterpieces Masterpiece mastera ps 7 1 i N A in III IDO when the ite roos roosevelt ebelt expedition went to africa on the greatest of all ail safaris by the dropping out of the professional photographer kermit roosevelt suddenly was thrust into the position of f off official leial photographer to the expedition I 1 viewed this arrangement with many misgivings because it ij was a task for maturity and long experience but the young man mode made good he made good per cent not only with the higgate hig game rifle hut but in wild animal photography as well w ell mr kermich masterpiece Is his best picture of a whole herd of elephants in a high but rather open forest william hornaday writes in scribners the light was none too good but fortunately tun tuna tely it was good enough Th this isreal real achievement was scored from a perch on a low limb of a tree conveniently placed to drop the in intervening brush out of view five tuskers appear in the front line and the elephants are massed together in the composition as neatly and perfectly as if the hand of man mail had bad grouped them to get nil all the flankers fla ulers into the picture col theodore roosevelt was very proud of this picture and so were the editors of scribners magazine and the african game trail book |