George Shiras, Wildlife Photographer
We'll tell you today about George Shiras, III, who was a photographer and a pioneer of night wildlife photography.
Even though photography was barely out of its infancy by 1900, Shiras was out in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan at all hours of the night making photos of wildlife. He used baited trip wires stretched across wildlife corridors which, when tugged by an animal, tripped a camera shutter, setting off a flash. He also mounted his camera on the bow of a canoe an
