Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1917 — Photographing Oneself. [ARTICLE]

Photographing Oneself.

The man with a camera rarely has his picture because of the difficulty of be’ing in front of the camera and behind it at the same time. A simple manner of accomplishing this seemingly impossible performance is described in a recent number of a photographic journal. Secute a wooden clothespin and shape out one end so that it grasps the bulb of the shutter and the spring tends to press on the bulb. Then .the other , arebrought together so as to release the bulb and are tied with string or thread. On this is put a piece of fuse of some length. Lighting the fuse, the person goes to the distant point before the camera, and when the string is burned the clothespin presses the bulb and makes the exposure.—Christian Science Monitor.