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Digital Photography Expert: Close-Up Photography: The Definitive Guide For Serious Digital Photographers by Michael Freeman (Lark Books) An acclaimed professional photographer, with a display of more than 400 beautiful color images, shows how to get close-up and personal with a digital camera. Michael Freeman teaches amateurs how to meet the challenges of this very special type of photo-graphy, with plenty of information on the ins and outs of magnification, parallax control, and depth of field. See how to apply selective focus to enhance the subject and make it stand out from the background. Such issues as using found and commonplace objects and capturing the beauty of shadows, all receive detailed attention. With technical tips and software retouching projects too, this guide is simply an indispensable resource for the avid digital photographer who wants to take great close-up shots. More

Digital Photography Expert: Nature and Landscape Photography : The Definitive Guide For Serious Digital Photographers by Michael Freeman (Lark Books) Packed with more than 400 photographs, technical tips, and personal insights, this inspirational guide helps outdoor photographers make the most of their digital camera. With a concentration on the different techniques required by the digital format, each page explains how to create professional quality photos of all the popular subjects: urban and rural photography, street portraits, architecture, and more. Manage such challenges as excessively bright skies and find out how to take full advantage of nature’s beauties, such as the warm golden light found at daybreak and dusk. Expert information reveals how to enhance the image by using filters such as grads and polarizers, along with computer and image-editing software. There’s added advice on composition, framing, and setting the scene. More

Robert Frank: London/Wales duotone photographs by Robert Frank, Introduction by Philip Brookman (Scalo) "War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority. Love, Paris, and Flowers ... but London was black, white, and gray, the elegance, the style, all present in front of always chang­ing fog. Then I met a man from Wales talking about the Miners and I had read How Green Was My Valley. This became my only try to make a `Story. "'-Robert Frank, letter to the author, May 29, 2002
This is a war story of a different kind, of the aftermath. It's nineteen fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three, when coal was still hauled down the mountain railway to heat the cities and fuel the fires of a postwar industrial economy. The skies are solid gray from fog and smoke; a miner returns home from work underground as a banker emerges from the dense snowy air, walking the street with agility and pur­pose. The British bankers and miners lead obverse lives, facing each other across these pages, but treading very different paths. Who are these people of the London streets and Welsh valleys, the finan­ciers and colliery workers? What is their relationship to the past and to each other? Robert Frank's images locate them in the context of their environment, and in doing this he suggests a social narra­tive that connects these people of the city and the country to their money and work in 1950s Britain. More

Nature Photography Close Up by Paul Harcourt Davies, Peter Parks (Watson-Guptill) Nature reveals her unseen beauty in an up-close-and-personal fashion in the photographs of Paul Harcourt Davies and Peter Parks. Zooming in on the "faces" of dragonflies and hornets, unearthing the intricate patterns of fungi and mosses, and even capturing the active beauty of plankton, Nature Photography Close Up presents a "think small" approach to natural subjects. Containing dozens of full-color photographs, each accompanied by a succinct and insightful essay, this gorgeous book doubles as a showcase and an instructional guide. Any photographers with an interest in macro nature photography will enjoy this new way of looking at the unseen wonders around them. More

Offerings: Buddhist Wisdom for Every Day color photography by Danielle & Olivier Föllmi (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) A book to contemplate each day, Offerings is a deeply thoughtful collection of wisdom and knowledge from the masters of Tibetan Buddhism. Three-hundred sixty-five photographs by Olivier Föllmi present an evocative new image every day-each accompanied by a choice Buddhist quote. This spiritual advice, which is suited to people of any belief or religious tradition, is organized into 52 themes, including spirituality, ancestors, money, trust, and dependence. The photographs are especially stunning and will appeal to the aesthetic eye of many.

Danielle and Olivier Föllmi share a message of peace and hope in this new book. Through subjects that preoccupy us today, the masters of Tibetan Buddhist thought-including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Kalu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa, Shabkar, Jack Kornfield, and Arnaud Desjardins-convey to us their vision of existence. Their collective and individual vision celebrates humanity and encourages continual self-improvement. More

Yoga: A Yoga Journal Book by Linda Sparrowe, photos by David Martinez (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates)  (PAPERBACK) is essentially a commercial work of art that deserves special mention on at least two counts: its size and its stunning photography. Yoga’s 5,000-year tradition is rich and varied, and has always evolved to meet the needs of the culture it serves. Ever increasing numbers of people come to the practice and encounter its many benefits: the union of opposites; an understanding of the effect of the outside world on the body; a significant reduction in stress; a path to liberation; and the discovery of one’s true self. Above all else, yoga has been and continues to be about the process of transformation. Linda Sparrowe discusses yoga’s roots in the sacred texts and provides a look at the 20th-century yogis who brought it to the West — Swami Sivananda Saraswati, Indra Devi, and B. K. S. Iyengar, to name a few. Her essay is a well wrought introduction to the ancient and contemporary developments in yoga practice. Four hundred artful posture-illustrating photographs of the most famous yoga practitioners, including Rodney Yee, Patricia Walden, Sharon Gannon, David Life, and Richard Freeman, pull the reader ever closer to this powerful practice. More

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