ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPHER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 3

ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPHER

VISIT TO AUSTRALIA Mr Cherry Kcarton, a noted English animal photographer, explorer, and author, arrived in Sydney recently to make arrangements for showing his film, “ The Big Game of Life,” in Australia. Mr Kcarton has visited many countries to photograph animals in their native haunts, but lie has spent most of his time in Africa, which he describes as a naturalist’s paradise. He was the first man to illustrate natural history books throughout by photography. This is his first visit to Australia. He said that it was his intention to photograph the fauna of the country, including koalas and wallabies. He has written 35 books, the most recent of which, “Adventures with Animals and Men.” was published last year.

Mr Kcarton has had some extraordinary adventures, including a fall in a wrecked dirigible from a height of 10,000 ft, after having obtained the first aerial photograph of London almost 30 years ago. It was only by good fortune, he said, referring to the incident, that the dirigible turned over in the air when falling, giving him a soft cushion of a half-inflated gasbag to break bis fall Mr Kcarton is accompanied by Mrs Kcarton, who was formerly Miss Ada Forrest, the South African prima donna. Mrs Kcarton said that her husband took all his films without inflicting any cruelty on animals. He seemed to hav.t some strange affinity with animals, Mrs Kcarton said, and never went among them armed. She had seen him look a lion in the eye while he arranged his camera, approach it, take several shots without taking his eyes off the beast while it sat tip and stared back at him, and retire without coining to any mishap.