Trail cameras are a valuable tool used by many hunters. These forest eyes provide hunters and outdoor enthusiasts with 24/7 visibility of game and non-game activities. Few people know that the first night photo of an animal, a deer, was taken by a man named George Shiras on July 3, 1893.
And he did it with a flashlight. Well, not the kind of flashlight like the ones we employ today. Shiras used an exploding charge of gunpowder – a flashing featherlight – to provide illumination for his enormous box camera for taking pictures.
We remember George Shiras, the “father of wildlife photography”
