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George Shiras
The August 1921 issue featured a story called "The Wild Life of Lake Superior, Past and Present." Here, people explore a sandstone cave near what is now known as Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
The August 1921 issue featured a story called "The Wild Life of Lake Superior, Past and Present." Here, people explore a sandstone cave near what is now known as Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
Published in the August 1921 issue, this picture of leaping deer is one of the earliest photographs of wildlife at night. The story, about wildlife around Lake Superior, included several pages detailing the writer-photographer's efforts to create a night photography system.
A beaver is caught mid-gnaw on a black ash tree, Michigan, 1921.
A young bull moose caught in Shiras's flash – Nictau Lake, New Brunswick, Canada, 1908
A barred owl above the Whitefish River, Michigan, 1906.
Leaping deer caught in a 'flash-trap', 1893 – believed to be amongst the first night-time photographs of a animals.
Shiras's famous image of a curious lynx; Loon Lake, near Lake Wanapitei, Ontario, Canada, July 1902.
A grizzly bear leaps through an image Shiras shot in Yellowstone Valley, Montana, 1908.
In one of the earliest nighttime flash photographs, three white-tailed deer in Michigan flee the flash of light. Date unknown.