Penguin Family Life

Cherry Kearton specialised in animal photography, havingtaken the first ever photograph of a bird's nest with eggs in 1892. In thesummer of 1896 he and his brother, a naturalist, reached the islands of St. Kilda and many other remote places. In 1898 their famousbook, With Nature and a Camera, illustrated by 160 photographs, Published inLondon. Cherry Kearton contributed photographs to seventeen of RichardKearton's books, and wrote and illustrated a further seventeen titles of hisown.He made the first phonograph recording of birds (anightingale and a song thrush) singing in the wild in 1900; took the first filmof London from the air in 1908, and the first footage of hostilities in theFirst World War at Antwerp in 1914. Cherry and Richard Kearton are perhaps bestremembered for the development of naturalistic photographic hides, includingthe hollow ox of 1900 and the stuffed sheep of 1901.