A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she...

Her hope is that you read Reflections and think about how it impacts the way you think and feel as it relates to your everyday life. Hopefully, this book will bring a deeper meaning to you and help you grow as a person.

Technology is moving so rapidly in quantum leaps... I cannot even catch my breath following it We get blindfolded when so entangled with the trivial Do we ever stop for a bit and wonder, what kind of illusion we are living in...? A new hybrid species is evolving among us... Smoothly numbing us... Making us dependable Less and less indispensable A.I. is catching up with us Are we ready? Scary but true Siri ends up being my best friend.

This book will give you Advanced Tips and Techniques. Showing hundreds of breathtaking photographs with all camera data. It will walk you through the steps of shooting beaches, mountains and waterfalls in beautiful locations inside America's National and State Parks, or even your backyard. It will not teach you how to use your new digital camera, it will teach you how to use it better. After capture it will walk you through the Complete Digital Workflow....

Imagine being unable to return to your homeland for thirty-six years. What would you do if you finally got a chance to go back? In 1996, after travel restrictions between the United States and Cuba were relaxed, Cuban exile Tony Mendoza answered that question. Taking his cameras, notebooks, and an unquenchable curiosity, he returned for his first visit to Cuba since the summer of 1960, when he emigrated with his family at age eighteen. In this book...

Rocker Rod Stewart, Jackson says, had it wrong when he titled his breakthrough album Every Picture Tells a Story. Pictures don't tell stories-but many of them call to mind stories or have stories about their making. Throughout his sixty-year career as folklorist, ethnographer, criminologist, filmmaker, and journalist, Bruce Jackson has taken photographs of family, friends, people he worked with, people he studied, and people he encountered. Ways...

Beginning in 1847, Henry David Thoreau made three trips to the mostly unexplored Maine woods. Along the way he recorded his observations on the wildlife (flora and fauna), the weather, terrain, and on the nature of the people he met along the way, including loggers, rivermen, and his Abnaki guides. In Thoreau's Maine Woods, photographer Dan Tobyne captures the essence of the Maine Thoreau discovered and described in his book. The combination of short...

This book of photographs complements the classic travel book Travels in Taiwan: Exploring Ilha Formosa-on six separate and arduous trips, the author deliberately headed for the areas of Taiwan neglected by other travel journalists in a singular feat of endurance and sustained curiosity. The engaging and lively account of his solitary journey abounds in descriptions of local geography and wildlife and includes numerous encounters with Native (indigenous)...

Like a traveler who is eager to bathe in a cold waterfall after a long day's journey, the soul is anxious for the crystal clear knowledge that will give it happiness. It is believed by many, that up in the Himalayan Mountains of India millenniums ago the original Truth of the World was spoken. Finding the values of the materialistic world inconsistent, I journeyed to the land of sages in search of some traces of ancient culture. Climbing the ' roof...

Nature's Alluring Attraction is a descriptive nature photography book about photographs taken through the eyes of a photographer and written by the artist himself. This book will captivate your imagination and compel you to explore your surroundings with a camera in a different way. Containing more than sixty vivid photographs and descriptive stories and the area they were taken in. This book will make you laugh with it's simple and down to earth...