nature photography

A photo-essay featuring patterns that appear in nature from animal colorings to physical phenomena.

Ansel Adams is one of America?s most popular and enduring photographers. His well-known photographs of America?s national parks, especially Yosemite and others in the West, are remarkable for their timeless celebration of the unblemished American landscape. Adams was an astute master of photographic technique who utilized perfectly the capabilities of his chosen medium to portray the untold beauty of the natural world. His photographs are an eloquent statement of an artist seeking order and truth and a permanent record of America?s wild beauty achieved by a man whose own nature was as immutable as the Earth he loved.

"Seventeen-year-old Laurel Graham has a singular, all-consuming ambition in this life: become the most renown nature photographer and birder in the world . . . One day Gran drags Laurel out on a birding expedition where the pair hear a mysterious call that even Gran can't identify. The pair vow to find out what it is together, but soon after, Gran is involved in a horrible car accident. Now that Gran is in a coma, so much of Laurel's world is rocked . . . Laurel's confusion isn't just a group of warblers--it's about what means the most to her, and what she's willing to do to fight to save it. Maybe--just maybe--if she can find the mystery bird, it will save her gran, the conservatory land, and herself"--Publisher.

In this title, budding photographers will learn how to take great landscape and wildlife photographs. Using simple text and dramatic photographs as examples, all the basics will be covered, including choosing the right cameras and lenses, composition, shutter speeds, depth of field, plus special field equipment used by today's top photographers. Also covered are the basics of making image adjustments in the digital darkroom. Readers will also learn about the history of landscape photography and top photographers in the field.

Three years of shooting were needed by five teams in order to follow bird migrations flying over the seven continents: from one pole to another, from the seas to snowcapped mountains, from the canopy of heaven to mangroves and swamps.

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

Presents a biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

Presents Jacqueline Briggs Martin's "Snowflake Bentley," the story of the self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

"Follow along as [explorer Carsten Peter] heads into extreme places and reveals the science and background behindseemingly unexplainable natural places and phenomenon. Underlying each of his adventures is a dose of ... science, ... history, ... images, tips, gear & gadget advice, and more to help kids learn about the Earth and how they can help preserve the planet."--Publisher.