Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles: A Photographic Odyssey Accompanied by Passages from Chandler's Greatest Works

Covers things that you need to know about travel photography including preparation, exploring with a camera, the technical stuff as well as hints and tips about virtually various travel photography scenarios. This title features a comprehensive section on post-processing your pictures using some of the popular computer software.

Describes the experiences of the photographers of National Geographic Magazine . This book includes stories, which are as minute as the glance of an amorous leopard seal before lunch or as vast as the landscape of Iceland during the days of the midnight sun.

Explores the key events and the key images that have marked the development of photography. This book examines the evolution of photography in its wider context: social, political, economic, technological and artistic. It also examines the different genres of photography from art, news and reportage, landscape and portrait photography.

Volume 1 begins with the very first permanent images (Nicephore Niepce's 1827 8-hour exposure reeftop picture and Louis Daguerre's famous 1839 street scene) and takes the reader up through the avant-garde photography of the 1920s

Volume 2 explores works such as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936) and Robert Doisneau's Kiss in front of City hall (1950), up through Martin parr's 'new European photography'

Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.

Contains technical and creative guidance in each discipline - portraits, landscapes, still life, architecture and nature. Comparative photographs demonstrate how to use lighting, camera angles, and composition.

Explains the process of picture-taking and sharing digital images. This book covers basic camera usage and guides the reader towards the choice of camera that is appropriate for their skills, needs and budget. It is aimed at users running PCs under Windows XP; the authors make use of a Canon digital camera as a 'generic' model.

A collection of photographs of animals in their natural environments. It includes: the serene gaze of a gorilla relaxing in the trees, a shark jumping in midair to catch its prey, a Siberian tiger traipsing through the snow in search of food and penguins congregating on an ice floe.

With the launch of the 2009 edition, 'The Freelance Photographer's Market Handbook' celebrates its 25th year of publication. Sporting a radical new cover design, the Handbook continues to provide an invaluable tool for the freelance and aspiring freelance photographer. With around a thousand listings, it is bang up-to-date with all the information they need to sell their photos for cash!