Already well established in the fields of travel, journalistic, and advertising photography, Horst and Tina Herzig focus on Britain's dynamic capital city to give us a stunning visual survey in black and white. The results of their walks through London's streets, parks, and neighborhoods collected here are more than a simple documentary record of a time and a place. Interspersed among the many artfully composed photographs of London's most famous landmarks are dozens of pictures that capture the spirit and energy of Londoners themselves. Designed to fit in any briefcase or handbag, this portrait of everyday life in one of the world's great cities is also the perfect keepsake for any traveler.

In this extraordinary collection of color images, noted landscape and wildlife photographer Jeff Drewitz presents Australia's natural beauty in all its stunning diversity. Whether photographs of dry outback or breathtaking coastline, the lush woods of Tasmania or the rainforests and wildlife of the tropical north, these pictures reveal a landscape that offers beauty and diversity in spades. The cities scattered along Australia's coasts are also covered. Here is a portrait of a vast land of extremes that will be the perfect keepsake for any traveler. Superb collection of photographs that captures the natural beauty and diversity of Australia’s landscape and wildlife. Also includes urban scenes. The fifth in teNeues’ successful color version of its Photopockets series, this will be the perfect keepsake for any traveler.

Tips and techniques for making food look good—before it tastesgood! Food photography is on the rise, with the millions of foodbloggers around the word as well as foodies who document theirmeals or small business owners who are interested in cutting costsby styling and photographing their own menu items, and this bookshould serve as your first course in food photography. Discover howthe food stylist exercises unique techniques to make the food lookattractive in the finished product. You’ll get a taste of thevisual know-how that is required to translate the perceptions oftaste, aroma, and appeal into a stunning, lavish finishedphotograph. Takes you through the art and techniques of appetizing foodphotography for everyone from foodies to food bloggers to smallbusiness owners looking to photograph their food themselves Whets your appetite with delicious advice on food styling,lighting, arrangement, and more Author is a successful food blogger who has become a well-knownresource

Stunning original images by Thomas Marent, photographer and author of Butterfly and the award-winning Rainforest, celebrate the colourful diversity, distinctive behaviour, and unique lifecycle of amphibians – frogs, toads, salamanders, and newts. Over 500 captivating images reveal the enigmatic and fragile world of frogs and their relatives to create a visual testament to a fascinating group of species that are vanishing from our planet at an alarming rate. Published to coincide with the Year of the Frog, a global campaign to save these endangered creatures from extinction.

Already well-established in the fields of fashion, journalistic, and portrait photography in his native Berlin, Bernd Obermann moved to New York City in 1996 to experience the city’s vibrant mix of culture, ethnicity, and race. For the next five years he ventured out of his apartment nearly every day, camera in hand, to explore what New York had to offer. The results of these walks through city streets, parks, and neighborhoods are collected in this paean to a place whose energy and spirit are as palpable as they are memorable. "When I take a photograph of somebody I am also making a photo of a deeper level of myself." Says Obermann, "I believe in acceptance and not in analysis." From the Bronx to the Battery, from poor to rich, young to old, Obermann’s images reflect his own fascination and sense of discovery.

The American Kennel Club recognizes over 160 breeds of dogs inseven categories: Hound, Working, Sporting, Non-sporting, Terrier,Toy and Herding. Thousands of Americans own purebred show dogs, andyear round, local kennel clubs host events at which judges evaluatehow closely individual dogs conform to breed standard. Ribbons andtrophies are bestowed and points are accumulated. The penultimateevent in a show dog s life is Westminster held in New York everyyear since 1877 which attracts hordes of visitors and aninternational media bonanza. In 2005 Life magazine assignedphotographer Kate Lacey to cover Westminster. She decided thatinstead of documenting the scene, she would rig up a seamlessbackdrop to make elegant portraits, much as Richard Avedon oncecaptured glamorous celebrities. Though partial to poodle mutt mixesherself, on this assignment Kate became entranced by show dogs, andtheir exquisite grooming and acclimatization to attention made themready subjects. After the assignment ended, she continued travel

You've been waiting for an affordable dSLR with the quality and versatility of the Nikon D200. Packed with great techniques and full-color examples, this book helps you take advantage of all the D200's features. From the Quick Tour on how to use your D200 to the intricacies of setting white balance, working with the flash, converting NEF, and shooting superb images in more than twenty common situations, it's all here - and it goes anywhere you and your Nikon can. Get a clear understanding of your camera's challenges and advantages Choose the right shooting, exposure, and focus modes for each type of shot Use extended ISO and noise reduction Explore how various lenses can enhance your work Work with different flash options and available light Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks

Would you like a quick, visual way to learn how to take better digital photos， edit and enhance them，make eye-popping prints，and create photo albums，slideshows，and online galleries？Then Visual Quick Tips are for you. Visual Quick Tips will increase your productivity by providing you with shortcuts，tricks，and tips to help you work smarter and faster. Straight-forward task de*ions Succinct explanations Full-color screen shots Numbered steps Learn How To: Choose the best lighting conditions Control focus and depth of field Create photo greeting cards and calendars

It's simple question,but there's no simple answer-indeed,each of the 280 photographs in this wonderful book offers its own,unique answer,distilling subject,setting,and cerative skill into a single arresting moment that cap-tures the viewer's imagination.And though we may find this elusive quality hard to define,we recognze is imme-diately and instinctively. William Albert Allard,one of the essayists in the book,writes,A fine portrait has the potential to tell something about the spirit of the subject that can be sensed by someone half a world and a different language away.something universal and simple:This is another person in our world and I'd like you to meet him or her. Culled from National Geographic's extraordinary archive,this collection spans more than a century and explores every cornetr of the globe and every aspect of the portraitist's art.The pictures here represent both the special visions of some of the world's finest photographers and the universal appeal of our shared humanity in all i

Get the most out of Lightroom with Tim Grey as your guide by reducing the time and effort you spend storing, selecting, and editing your digital images. Adobe’s new Lightroom software, together with this practical guide, explains everything from importing and cataloguing to processing and archiving. Whether you’re a professional photographer or advanced amateur, you’ll find ways to work efficiently with Lightroom in order to improve your productivity and get the results you want.

Hechenblaikners intimate knowledge of the subject, the greatperseverance and patience he brings to bear when pursuing how eventculture and mass tourism have mutilated the former mountain farmerscountry, make him the most expressive documentarian of todaysAlpine reality. Tobia Bezzola Have fun reads a sign on a ski run, aphotograph of which opens Winter Wonderland. And fun we haveexploring these images of Hechenblaikners native Tyrol includingmasses of fans at a ski event, fireworks illuminating slopes atnight, ski lifts in the off-season navigating rocky outcrops, andrubbish in the snow after a day of revelry. This book is adocumentation of this landscape and an ironic look at theperversion of Alpine culture that shapes it in the interest ofcommerce.

Tokyo is a city of contrasts and contradictions in which East coexists with West; modernity thrives amidst age-old traditions, and orderliness prevails in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. This striking collection of black & white photographs illustrates all of these truisms about this complex city and its inhabitants. Whether he's photographing a rooftop shrine set against the skyscrapers of the Shinjuku High rise district, a swirling mass of commuters in Tokyo Station at rush hour, or the tranquil beauty of the Imperial Palace, Ben Simmons' photographs both radiate with Tokyo's vitality and reveal its enduring traditions.

Unlock the creative potential of the camera thats always in your pocket. This book is for every iPhone owner with an interest in creating stylish, fashionable, exciting and unique photos, wherever they are. iPhone users are always talking about the latest apps, and with good for pennies, extra features can be added to the phone in seconds, including hundreds of tools for photographers. This book selects the best, showing how to use them through clear instructions, inspirational images and a friendly instructional text. But this is no mere software this is a book to inspire creative photographers. A series of photographic challenges that everyone can undertake will let you gain in confidence and train you to see great opportunities for arresting photos, wherever you are.

This volume presents photographerCartier-Bresson's own selection of 130 of his photographs of Paris,taken over 50 years. Accompanying text discusses the history ofCartier-Bresson's engagement with the city and its place in hisachievement.

Apollo is a photographic commemoration of the Apollo lunar missions as seen through the eyes of the astronauts. Each of the surviving 21 astronauts from the Apollo missions has chosen a favorite photograph from his space flight especially for this book. These selections are accompanied by other iconic photographs from the Apollo missions. Bestselling astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy Hawking contribute a foreword on the meaning of the space exploration. July 20, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11. Apollo is the only photographic book on the Apollo missions to be created by NASA, and is the perfect commemorative volume about this epochal program, where legendary achievement was recorded in powerful images.

PLATEAU LIGHT focuses on the heart and soul of America's Redrock Country, expressing the beauty and wilderness of areas ranging from the Grand Canyon to Paria. Zion, Bryce, Canyonlands, Arches, the San Rafael Swell, Dirty Devil River, Capitol Reef and the Henry Mountains all captured David Muench's attention. His images also include vistas of the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness and the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument. These landscapes one inspired the Anasazi, Fremont and Archaic peoples and serve as the perfect background for the petroglyphs and ruins they left behind. For the first time in softbound edition, these spectacular photos will inspire, delight and amaze, both readers and photographers alike.

An elegiac collection of sixty Polaroid photographs by thelate Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky. "Tarkovsky often reflected on the way that time flies and wantedto stop it, even with these quick Polaroid shots. The melancholy ofseeing things for the last time is the highly mysterious and poeticessence that these images leave with us. It is as though Andreiwanted to transmit his own enjoyment quickly to others. And theyfeel like a fond farewell." —Tonino Guerra, from theIntroduction This beautifully produced book comprises sixty Polaroid photographsof Andrei Tarkovsky's friends and family, taken between 1979 and1984 in his native Russia and in Italy, where he spent time inpolitical exile.The size of the Polaroids is exactly as presentedin the book, including the frame. The book may therefore be viewedas a facsimile edition. 60 color illustrations.

Sinuous and agile, aloof and intelligent, playful and affectionate, cats fascinate and confound humans with their countless contradictions. More than 500 splendid color photographs bring to life the many moods and faces of our favorite felines in this satisfyingly hefty volume. From the rough-and-tumble charm of a litter of fuzzy tabby kittens to the icy-blue-eyed stare of an elegant Siamese, from pampered house cats to half-wild outdoor cats, from the humble domestic shorthair to pedigreed Persians, the images in this book reveal cats in their full-furry glory. Through the lens of Valeria Manferto, everyday moments in the lives of cats become extraordinary as she captures them luxuriating in the warmth of the sun, in solitary meditation, and grooming their young. Accompanied by fascinating feline lore, these images remind us that our cuddly companions have not lost the instincts of their cousins in the wild, and that the calico cozily curled up on the couch is just a pounce away from becoming a fierce hunter

Lighting is a fundamental concern for the studio photographer, and The Studio Photographer’s Lighting Bible explores lighting from every angle. This book explains all the commercial, practical, technical, and creative issues to identify how studio photographers can work successfully with other professionals and make the best and most creative lighting choices in their work. Interviews with lighting specialists from other disciplines, including theater, film, concerts, and galleries, as well as stylists, photographer’s assistants, make-up artists, and picture editors, give the photographer innovative ideas and the understanding needed to work as part of a team. Case studies with showcase images and lighting diagrams, plus information specific to the main photographic market, make The Studio Photographer’s Lighting Bible a must-have for every working photographer.

Photography has revolutionized the way we see the world. This book is a comprehensive guide to 250 of the world's best-known photographers, from the pioneers of the previous century to the experimental artisit who will take us into the next.

Composed of photographs taken between 1997 and 2003, Slater Bradley's don't let me disappear takes Holden Caulfield's admonition as its title in a compendium that is part travelogue and part personal photo album. In these color images, Bradley isolates the small events and intimate moments that punctuate daily life. Prefaced by a W.H. Auden poem that reminds us that suffering occurs "while someone else is eating or opening a window," this book is at once darkly romantic and emotionally evocative--and a reminder that the incidental is often the most meaningful.