SNAP-SHOTTING AT OSTEND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 12 November 1907, Page 4

SNAP-SHOTTING AT OSTEND.

The snapshotting fiend has been very much in evidence at Ostend this year, and he has taken a new form. Not content with standing on the beach and photographing ladies from there, he puts on a bathing-suit and walks about kneedeep in the water, with his camera held above his head. I saw one incident which I thought might lead to a duel. An Englishman, one of my friends, was staying with his wife at Ostend, and they bathed every warm morning. One morning I saw the lady making for her bathing machine, pursued by one of the camera fiends bent on “ snapping” her. He had not noticed her husband who was also coming out of the water. His camera was knocked out of his hand, and he went down into the water after it. The next day, I met husband and wife, told them I had seen the occurrence and asked if it had produced any sequel. “Oh, yes,” said the husband cheerfully ; ” he found out my address, and has sent me in a bill for his camera. He says that he makes a living all the summer by photographing ladies in their bath-ing-dresses, who generally buy many copies.” After that I looked a little more carefully at the photographers in the water, and saw that many of them had large cards on their cameras with their names and addresses printed in big type, and that some of the ladies undoubtedly did pose knee-deep in the water in order that anyone who wished could record their beauty of outline. —Correspondent of the Sketch.