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Elizabeth Carmel's new book "Brilliant Waters" contains a stunning selection of beautiful landscape photographs of the area around Lake Tahoe, Yosemite and the High Sierra.

I bought this book on the strength of the cover picture. This book is all about beautiful photographs and nothing else. No further insights - no information about the making - no secrets - only a few poems.

To make a long story short -> 94 pages and 44 photographs and a lot of white space

However, if you are looking for a book with beautiful landscape photographs of the surrounding area of Lake Tahoe - I think it's worth to buy it. But keep in mind - you won't get any additional information.

Regards, Gerry

I bought this book last autumn while I was in Kansas City because of its colourful book cover and fascinating title. Well, after reading the first few chapters I definitely came to the conclusion that this gut decision to buy this book without browsing over any readers comment was a good one.

Michael Freeman explains in a very simple and self-explanatory way how the observer’s eyes would scan a specific photograph and how these concrete findings should be taken into consideration when an image gets composed.

He easily explains all the important elements like lines, curves, shapes, light, contrast, motion and structure with the help of wonderful photographs.

If you are looking for a book which gives you concrete design advices how a good image should be composed then this one is definitely the right investment.

Regards, Gerry

Joe Cornish is one of Britain’s most renowned landscape photographer and by the way he is one of my personal favourite in the field of classical landscape photogrpahy.

The book “First Light” is like a must-have book for all those who have the aspiration to improve their skills in seeing and understanding the right light conditions. The approach of this book is vey straight forward. Joe Cornish briefly explains the way how he created the photograph (time, weather conditions, light and filters) and he additionally shows a similar (smaller) photograph with different lighting conditions (and less successful treatments) of the same scene.

It’s all about light !

By the way, the print quality of this book (hardcover) is very good and I can highly recommend it.

Regards, Gerry