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Camera hunting
照相機狩獵
Hunting with the camera has become more important to the study of wild life than hunting with the rifle.
相比于槍支狩獵，照相機狩獵對于研究野生動物更加重要。
Osa and I seldom shoot except for food or to save ourselves or our workers in times of great danger.
歐莎和我很少開槍，除非是為了找尋食物，或是在危難時刻自救或幫助工作伙伴。
Osa usually holds the gun, and it is my faith in her nerve that has made possible most of our best pictures.
歐莎總是拿著槍，我對她的信任讓我們獲得了許多珍貴照片。
Twice she has dropped elephants at my feet. Once a lion charged me in the open.
有兩次她都是在大象走進我時將它們放倒，一次，一頭獅子在野外沖我襲來。
I kept cranking because she held the gun. At fifteen feet she fired. It didn't stop him.
我繼續繞彎跑，因為歐莎拿著槍，在距離我15英尺時她開了槍，但卻沒有阻止它向前。
She fired again, and the lion dropped so close that I could touch his mane with my toe.
她再次開槍，獅子倒下了，它距離我很緊，我的腳指頭都能碰到它的鬣。
I usually become so interested in the pictures I am getting that I don't realize the danger. Osa looks out for that.
我對我拍攝的照片產生了興趣，我沒有意識到危險，但歐莎覺察到了。
Photographing wild life is a very dangerous business for the person who hasn't had wide experience
拍攝野生動物很危險，因為拍攝者沒有戶外經驗，
and who does not know just what chances he can take with safety.
也不知道抓住機會讓自己逃離險境。
After spending years in the jungle, one comes to know how a particular animal is likely to act.
在野外生活幾年后，人們才知道動物有可能要干什么。
But we take every care, because there is always some uncertainty as to what wild animals will do.
但是我們非常小心，因為動物的行為還是充滿不確定性。
Camera hunting is a life work that I would not advise for many people.
照相機狩獵是一生所追求的工作，我不建議人們參與其中。
It is thrilling if you like it; but for every thrill there may be days, perhaps weeks, of dull, tiresome preparation.
這份工作很刺激，但每一個刺激的瞬間都需要幾天，或許幾周的苦惱準備。
Often after endless labor of tracking animals, planning with care, lugging cameras and other things,
通常在經歷跟蹤動物，詳細計劃，搬運照相機等其它事情后，
and coming right up on the beasts you are looking for, you do not get a good film.
當你真的找到了你要尋找的動物時，你卻沒法拍出好的紀錄片。
Then again, you secure a picture that makes you want to stand out in the middle of the desert and shout the tidings to the world.
但下一次你或許就能收獲好照片，這種感覺會讓你站在沙漠中央，或站在世界的制高點上。
