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Pub. Date
2009
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This guide is suitable for all levels of photographers. 100 Ways to Take Better Nature and Wildlife Photographs features 100 practical and inspiring tips on every aspect of the genre. Guy Edwardes' breath-taking pictures accompany his easy-to-follow advice on a wide range of subjects from capturing the actions of large mammals to snapping wild birds and flowers in the garden.
With tips on everything from technique to composition, coping with extreme...
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Publisher
Appalachian Mountain Club Books
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"This comprehensive guide details fundamental techniques and concepts outdoor photographers need to know. Building on the basic foundations of photography, case studies, and over twenty years of experience, authors Jerry and Marcy Monkman explore the full process of outdoor photography-from packing and taking care of gear, to setting up and taking great shots, to processing photos in the digital darkroom. Crisp, large, full-color photographs pair...
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Publisher
Goff Books, an imprint of ORO editions
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Eleven visionary photographers--who happen to be women--focus upon moments of profound beauty and peril on our planet. As award recipients and jurors of the prestigious BigPicture international competition, these women are featured with more than 125 dramatic images that illustrate the extraordinary complexity of the natural world and challenge our very relations and perceptions of it. 'Seeing It All' goes beyond the glamorizing images of nature...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"Tornadoes, ice caves, glaciers, lightening -- no territory or phenomenon is too scarey for daring explorer Carsten Peter, who is right at home exploring the most outrageous places and raucous natural occurrences around the globe. Kids can follow along as he heads into extreme places and reveals the science and background behind these seemingly unexplainable natural places and phenomenon. Underlying each of his adventures is a dose of hard science,...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Spanning remarkable moments year-by-year from 2000 to 2021, this must-have collection presents 250 of the most impactful National Geographic images across print, digital and social media.
The best photographs of the first 21 years of the 21st century take center stage in this incredible volume of National Geographic's world-famous imagery. In just two short decades of the 21st century, National Geographic has ushered in a new era of visual storytelling...
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Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The new movement in contemporary gardening is about going back to the wilderness, creatively landscaping with native plants to enrich their environments and seamlessly merge with their natural surroundings. Politely rejecting traditional manicured, hedged and pruned gardening aesthetics to invite an alternative kind of beauty: wildly bursting with indigenous plants, old-growth trees, vibrant patches of wildflowers and perennials, succulents, un-pruned...
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Series
The Moosilauke history project volume 5
Publisher
[Robert W. Averill]
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The story of Amos F. Clough, a pioneering photographer of the White Mountains, has rested in obscurity for a century and a half. Born and raised before the Civil War in the rural New Hampshire town of Warren, Clough began his career in photography early in the 1860s, seeking out what he called 'gems' from the natural world. Using a special camera with two lenses side-by-side, he took stereoscopic photographs. The most spectacular of them came from...
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Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Seventeen-year-old Laurel Graham has a singular, all-consuming ambition in this life: become the most renowned nature photographer and birder in the world. The first step to birding domination is to win the junior nature photographer contest run by prominent Fauna magazine. Winning runs in her blood -- her beloved activist and nature-loving grandmother placed when she was a girl. One day Gran drags Laurel out on a birding expedition where the pair...
15) The tree
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The classic meditation on creativity and the natural world
"For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance." -W. S. Merwin, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The Tree is the fullest and finest exploration I've ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art." -Lewis...
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Publisher
Monacelli, a Phaidon Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Every day (every single day) for over a decade, Mary Jo Hoffman has made a photograph of found nature - no subject too small or too ordinary. For Hoffman, a former aeronautical engineer, this daily ritual cracked open profound revelations about the connectedness of all things, the importance of place, and her own life. This book shares a selection of the breathtaking photographs from Hoffman's enormous archive, accompanied by perceptive, deeply felt,...