In 1906 George Shiras III (1859 "1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic .
The pictures, stunning in detail and composition, celebrated American Wildlife at a time when many species were going extinct because of habitat loss and unrestr.
Taken with crude equipment, the black-and-white photographs featured leaping whitetail deer, a beaver gnawing on a tree, and a snowy owl perched along the shore of a lake in Michigan (TM)s Upper Peninsula.
In 1906 George Shiras III (1859 "1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic