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The author does a brilliant job demonstrating the proper way to take a photograph. She shows through example after example using over 100 color photographs better approaches to lighting, the importance of colors and tones, the execution of perspective, balance, centering, and most importantly focusing tactics.

With the summer traveling season soon upon us, A Guide to Better Photography offers the novice photographer sound advice on all the techniques used by the professional photographer for taking exceptional photographs.

This book is recommended to people of all ages who have struggled with the art of photography, or just taking a picture, but can’t seem to make it work. This guide offers quick and easy solutions to taking better photographs.

Observing photographs of New York City in shades of gray only – in monochrome – perhaps the first impression to strike the viewer is how little the absence of color diminishes the city as conveyed to us by the sharp-eyed photographer. The gleam, the glitter, the grandeur of the soaring metropolis remain as powerful as ever; we feel only that with the saturated hues of the landscape removed, the lines, the forms and the geometry find greater room to assert themselves, their interplay rising to meet the eye all the more clearly.

The grandeur of the photography within this book serves as a reminder of how wonderful we feel in nature.  It recaptures the joy of being engulfed in the Presence of all life.

 

We have entered into a sacred Millennium.  We are each here for a purpose – to be aware of and to share the unique Light that we are.  Affirmations are a tool for knowing the brilliance of our own Spiritual nature.

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This book is a short, straight to the point presentation of how to use the many tools available in the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® 3 software to bring out the best in a photographic image. The reader will be taken through a step by step workflow in the Develop Module with lots of tips along the way, many of which have not been presented before. This book is the most complete discussion of what Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® 3 has to offer the photographer, be they a professional or hobbiest.

Photothoughtography is a collection of original photographs and original thoughts designed to amuse, entertain, and inspire .

With the bridge of entry provided by Ken Pienkos and Staff from the new  Oxford Library, Whisperings Along the Octoraro is a transformational journey of poetry replete with photographs through the rolling hills of Chester County from its early roots, Indian Hannah with its bucolic farms, Frozen in Time teaming with wildlife: Reinventing Wilderness, Wildlife on the Brink of Discovery; its Amish in Tradition; its celebrated artists like Andrew Wyeth "On Meeting Face to Face," and its artisans, "Marquetry" as well as the plight of the homeless man in "Who Will Take You in, Arvin?"  It's a celebration of the enduring values which have been promulgated by the attributes of the thrifty Hausfrau in "Nana's Jewels" and "Kitchen Life" with a penchant for Goethe and Shiller, and the philosophical father in "The Art of Pipe Smoking."  Interspersed within are Love  Knots, Spun Jewels, and Natural Wonders, "The Maternal Spinster:" Is there a way, we can duplicate your fail-safe instincts, delicate sensory hairs, or the silken threads of your woven nursery, maternal spinster with your fine lines of sensibilities? Let Freedom Ring is an affirmation of the spirit of Americans, stirring the fires of a core belief--united we're free, divided we fall--duty-bound for freedom's call, while the "Peace Rose" containing the colors of many roses beckons the young to circumvent old battlelines drawn!  The meaning of life is confronted in When is it Time to Die first with our favorite pets, then the people we love best. Stripped bare, defenses lowered, we can absorb the beauty around like a flower past its bloom all shriveled up except for the essence reflected in the soft forgiving light of the moon.......but even strategy has certain bounds, deciding the perfect time to go, God alone is discriminating saving soul by soul.  The photographs serve to capture the essence of the area with a special ethereal warmth and glow illuminating from the eloquence within.

Welcome to A Manual on Exposure in Photography. This book is unique and describes photography on a high level; it teaches how to observe sharply. This manual explains the theory and practice of setting the correct exposure for camera and Flash-gun. Whit the current filters, and film material, it is possible to take pictures under almost all circumstances. You can read how to use light, colour and photographic position, with minimum resources professional exposure and photographing. I myself take photos with all types of cameras; even with the Twin - lens reflex camera with two lenses used in the past. This book is intended for beginners and advanced; for all types of cameras and technical matters. This book describes the essence of digital photography: how to obtain the best results with your camera and avoid errors. Digital photography is a pleasure as you can edit your photos to suit your wishes. The book describes several themes of photography: vacations, weddings and parties, studio photography, landscapes, flowers, animals, close ups, and much more. In addition, as a beginner you can also read how to work in Photoshop. Landscape photography with automatic exposure is very simple. Portrait photography involves artistic deformation: the softening of the light and the softness and the colour of the skin. As a hobby photographer, you can often get better results and create new ideas for portrait photography with homemade equipment. We hope that A Manual on Exposure in Photography will encourage you to make better use of your camera and get more pleasure out of photographing.

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Will A. Thurland of Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944, a year after the Selective Service Act of 1940 was made applicable to the territory in World War II. The photographs are taken with a Kodak Brownie camera. The photographs and stories are of the Virgin Islands Orchestra and the Virgin Islands 872nd and 873rd Port Companies and their military journey in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Louisiana and Hawaii. The photographs also include the VJ Day Parade in Oahu, Hawaii in 1945 at the end of World War II, the 1946 Tsunami in Hawaii, the men working, on furlough or the orchestra playing in New Orleans and Hawaii in addition to life after service. Also included are newspaper clippings from the local newspapers as those back home kept track of the enlisted men's activities. The book also has a glossary. Will was instrumental in organizing the Virgin Islands Orchestra. The music of the orchestra provided a distraction from a segregated army and the Jim Crow laws that Virgin Islanders would not get accustomed to. The orchestra was well received wherever they were stationed, for their unique style of music such as quelbe, Latin music, popular big band music and military marches. Members of the 873rd Port Company contributed greatly to the US. Virgin Islands after military discharge and produced the 2nd and 4th elected governors of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Cyril E. King and Alexander A. Farrelly, legislators, commissioners, successful businessmen, many in government and public service, in addition to several members of the Virgin Islands Orchestra who continued to share their musical talents in the Virgin Islands. Note: A separate file with the back cover text has been submitted in Word titled "WT-BackCoverText-Fin

The bell rings to end another day at school but for Jeremiah it is only the beginning of an outrageous shape adventure. Shape Up with Jeremiah is a story that takes the young reader on an exploration of shapes by introducing them through the tantalizing world of narrative fiction. Children of all ages will make connections with important math concepts, as they join Jeremiah on an exploration of geometric solids in the real world. It is an educational adventure that turns an ordinary day into an extraordinary one and leaves the reader wondering about the importance of numbers in the world. Shape Up with Jeremiah is a powerful instructional tool for parents and educators wishing to inspire a love for learning.

“Travel is a State of M i n d, by Brad Fairchild and Larry Corse, is an exuberant, poignant, and often powerful volume of poems and photographs.  Inspired by a month touring in Europe with friends, the poems bring to life moments of 1000 years of history and the ever-ephemeral present.   In small miracles of image, they capture incidents from the lives of the painters—Pieter Breughel, Egon Schiele—as well as glimpses like “your head bobbing on the crowd like Marie Antoinette’s,” or a stained glass portrait of a medieval monarch “barking commands through painted glass lips—wide-eyed and grimy.”  Many of these “portraits” go deftly beneath the surface of the art and monuments the writers visit—Empress Maria-Teresa of Austria suspended live in her coffin, the self-consciousness of a boy being painted nude by Anton Kolig, furtive lovers having coitus on a bicycle on a bridge at night in Amsterdam.   But also, the poems show us the ever-disappearing surface, with its luminous, mundane mystery—a ripped settee cushion at the Hotel Jeanne d’Arc, an old man in Munich dragging a mattress upstairs.

The photos and cover art by Christopher McCarra give an unusually strong enhancement to the poems.  The overall effect of the book is arresting—a surprising and powerfully felt sense of the richness of life, its perpetual mingling of past and present—lovely, baffling, stern and uncompromising.” —Linda Taylor, poet

 

"Corse and Fairchild have successfully created a lively narrative that is at once colorful, suggestive and incredibly engaging.  They offer us a collection of transient moments in time, masterfully woven together in a charming and remarkably intimate lyrical tapestry.  A truly delightful read that not only captures the allure and romance of the journey, but also offers a brilliant insight into the consciousness of the traveler." — Oliver Self

 

“Fairchild and Corse send gilded greetings from some of Europe's most dazzling cities.

Their poems are the interiors of picture postcards often mirroring each other.  They take

us beneath the senses to those jeweled chambers where we feel what we see. For anyone who has ever been seduced by Old World charms these poems will carry you back like a beloved souvenir.” — Franklin Abbott, author of Mortal Love: Selected Poems and editor of Boyhood: Growing Up Male.