In an elegant how-to book, a renowned nature photographer collaborates with a former photograph editor for Audubon magazine to demonstrate how to take take better--and even prize-winning--photos. Features over 250 full-color photographs.
In a revised edition of this celebrated book, Unitarian Universalist minister Gary Kowalski grapples with the big spiritual questions around our relationship with animals: Do animals have souls? Are they aware of death and are they conscious of themselves? Do animals have an inherent capacity to recognize beauty and can they create art? Do animals ...
Photographed on seven continents, and nine years in the making, this lush sequel to Art Wolfe's "Light on the Land" features 150 gorgeous and compelling color images exploring the extraordinary beauty of nature. "I really don't want to dazzle people with detail," Wolfe says "I want to move them by the moment." These "moments" come from the book's ...
Acclaimed nature photographer Art Wolfe focuses on his home region with masterful portraits of the mountains, forests, rivers, sea, islands, and desert that make up the special natural composition of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. 130 color photos.
A celebration in photographs of the most spectacular of the world's animals and their environments. As we look into the new millennium we are in danger of destroying our planet's wonderful diversity of life. Art Wolfe has created this portrait of the animals that we still have time to save, examining those now considered extremely rare, and ...
A travel guide for nature lovers. Features thousands of sites of ecological and geographical importance and beauty, hidden trails, and scenic destinations. A comprehensive resource including color relief maps, itineraries with directions, addresses and phone numbers of sites, advice about outdoor activities, and 150 color photographs.
In the new edition of this practical guide, master photographer Ellen Anon and digital-imaging expert Tim Grey show you how to capture the beauty of nature by shooting the best possible photos from the start - and then getting the most out of your images at your desktop. You'll find eye-opening techniques, workflow ideas, and terrific Photoshop ...
One of the world's premier landscape and wildlife photographers celebrates the Pacific Northwest in this compact collection of his best images of Mount Rainier, Olympic National Park, and other majestic sites in the region.
Photographs and easy, rhyming text provide facts about animals and their movements for each letter of the alphabet, from the arch of a humpback whale's tail to the zapping tongue of a chameleon.
Here are 191 spectacular photos of wild cats in natural habitats around the globe: lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, cougars, cheetahs, ocelots, lynx, Arabian wild cats, Brazilian pampas cats, margays, black-footed cats, otter cats, and many others.
From tigers to tabbies, the most authoritative popular reference on cats in an engaging Q&A format . Cats in Question , a new book in Smithsonian's highly successful In Question series, offers authoritative and engaging answers to the thousands of questions about cats that Smithsonian scientists receive annually. All of the world's cats are ...
Introduces the numbers one through twenty against a background of photographs and brief text describing animal and plant life found in the Pacific Northwest.
Internationally acclaimed nature and wildlife photographer Wolfe has long had a love affair with California. In this luscious book, he explores all of the natural regions of the state including the alpine lakes of the High Sierra, the ancient forests, and the uniquely abundant and colorful desert.
In this new book he turns to one of nature's most fundamental survival techniques: the vanishing act. He shows animals and insects relying on deception, disguises, lures and decoys to disappear into their surroundings, confusing the eye of the predator. Nothing is as it appears to be, a lion blends into the tall grass; a harp seal disappears ...
Published in 1991, the only children's book devoted to the resplendent chameleon is an ALA Notable Book, and NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, and a Booklist Editor's Choice. All the beauty and strangeness of these amazing reptiles is captured with "dramatic, beautifully assembled pictures" (Horn Book) and simple text. Full-color ...
The Pacific Northwest has its own version of the seven summits: Hood, Adams, St. Helens, Rainier, Glacier, Shuksan, and Baker, stunning peaks that crown the Cascade Range. Art Wolfe captures their untamed beauty from near and far in breathtaking images that reveal high snowfields, lush old-growth forests, and the haunting blue light of glaciers. ...
Photographed in Antarctica, Alaska's St. George Island, the Aleutians, and Machias Seal Island, Maine, this magnificent book points out the similarities and differences between penguins and auks, discusses their breeding habits, ranges, habitats, and positions in the food web. 200 full-color photos.
Introduces some of the baby animals found in the Pacific Northwest, including raccoon kits, a bison calf, grey wolf pups, Coho salmon fry, Western Sandpiper chicks, and a cougar kitten.
Art Wolfe's stunning color wildlife and nature photographs teach young children the alphabet while giving them a sense of wonder and appreciation about the bounty of nature. The old-fashioned A is for Apple is replaced by A is for Auklet. F is for Fir Tree, H is for Haida Totem Pole, and so on through the alphabet. No one does nature better than ...
Focusing his camera on the many shapes and forms of the elements--earth, air, fire, and water--Wolfe brings all his famed sense of composition, pattern, and light to expose the ever-changing beauty of the natural world. Includes four essays on the elements by Craig Child.
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