Take a view the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition is the brainchild of Charlie Waite one of todays most respected landscape photographers. Together with AA Publishing he created this prestigious competition & award with a total prize fund exceeding GBP20 000 plus an eight-week exhibition at the National Theatre. Britains heritage is celebrated by people around the world & entries are welcome from everyone whether resident in the UK or simply visiting as long as the image is from the British Isles. This book showcases the best pictures from amateur & professional photographers alike from the sixth annual competition. Following the recent announcement by Take A View that that the winner of the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards 2012 David Byrne has been disqualified a decision based on the extent of the digital manipulation techniques used in his entry AA Publishing would like to reassure readers of their commitment to responsible & quality publishing. The book: Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 6 which contains the winning entries from the 2012 awards was published by AA Publishing on October 31st in the best of faith. Prepared by the publishers long before the winners were announced to the public the book is produced to the highest quality standards. Due to the book being printed & distributed before the decision to change the overall winner was made by the judges the current version of the hardback book on sale contains the former winning image by David Byrne while the newly announced winning image by Simon Butterfield appears on page 127. The next print run of the hardback copy of Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 6 will include Simon Butterfields image at the start of the book replacing David Byrnes disqualified image. The e Book version of the book has already been corrected to include the new winning image. AA Publishing have posted information on both Amazon & on the AA Publishing website to inform buyers of the changes to this years awards that has affected the content of the book as well as alerting the companies who handle the distribution of the books. ...

This title is aimed at both the novice & more experienced amateur with hints & tips from professional photographers. This new series of Expanded Guides" focuses on photographic techniques not only to give you a comprehensive grounding in the subject but also takes you a step further to enable you to get much more from your photography. " Landscape Photography" is a detailed guide to capturing outstanding images in the great outdoors using todays sophisticated digital SLR & compact digital cameras. From choosing the correct camera lenses & filters to the practicalities of gauging the weather tide times & the optimum time of day to shoot this comprehensive handbook discusses the theory & technicalities of exposure composition light & colour. Expert advice describes the preparation & techniques for shooting in a wide variety of outdoor locations from mountains coastlines deserts & jungles to lakes waterfalls rivers clouds flowers & trees
- plus how to successfully photograph people & animals in the landscape."
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Without doubt landscape is the most popular area of photography largely because it is so accessible. From creating highly polished images to expressive personal responses to the landscape Tony Worobiecs The Landscape Photography Bible provides all the essential information you will need to achieve impressive results. Truly biblical in its scope depth & in the inspiration it provides this stimulating book has something for everyone from enthusiastic amateurs to experienced photographers. Illustrated with Tonys accomplished & varied photos & written in his warm personal style the book covers all practical considerations from captions that include full technical details for each shot to information on cameras lenses & accessories & advice on the latest image software & post-processing. This really is the complete guide to taking finest top quality landscape photos in all conditions. Learn the secrets of spectacular landscape photography with this insiders guide. Full of expert advice from award-winning photographer Tony Worobiec you will find everything you need to know from essential equipment to working in all lighting & weather conditions. Tonys images are wonderful
- exciting & inspiring
- & these are combined with the very latest digital techniques & practical easy-to-follow advice. For more from Tony Worobiec see titles such as Creative Photography Ideas using Adobe Photoshop & The Complete Guide to Night & Low Light Photography.

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This is a 'workshop in a book' to follow at your own pace from UK authors Ben Hall & Ross Hoddinott two of the UK's leading natural-history photographers. It is suitable for any level of expertise plus reader assignments to promote practical learning. It

Includes:: answers to frequently asked questions. Wow your friends & relatives with awe-inspiring landscape shots with this workshop within a book. Two of the UK's leading landscape photographers come together to share their wealth of experience & teaching skills in this new title. The Landscape Photography Workshop" aims to take the reader from the very basics of equipment & exposure through to advanced techniques. Landscape essentials such as composition & filtration are covered in depth & explained in a precise yet easy-to-understand manner. This book also has chapters dedicated to post-processing & printing enabling the reader to go successfully from camera to print plus a number of practical assignments to encourage development."

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Illustrated with numerous drawings & photographs this book presents a horticultural overview of the main plant families of trees & shrubs from temperate regions that are cultivated in urban & rural landscape schemes. Most of the plants used come from a limited number of plant families & within these families certain genera contribute very significantly. The largest chapter in the book describes 37 plant families according to their identification functional use & management in landscape schemes. With this information readers will be able to assess the suitability of species & prepare planting designs for prevailing sites. ...

4 car tours over 50 long & short walks 25 picnic suggestions This book focuses on walking but it is not intended only for walkers. The car touring section will show you the best of the island & the picnic suggestions make an excellent introduction to the countryside. There are walks for all ages & abilities on Corfu from strolls to beaches to challenging day-long hikes
- in the mountains or criss-crossing the plains. Many of the walks take in parts of the long-distance Corfu Trail. For centuries Corfus magnetic beauty has attracted travellers who have sung the praises of the peacock-hued bays the hillsides drenched in silvery-green olive trees & the emerald greenness of the countryside. & when you leave Corfu these will be your impressions too. While time brings change the pristine Corfu so beloved of Lear & the Durrell brothers can still be found
- this book tells you where. It turns the island inside-out & helps you find a Corfu unknown to most tourists.

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4 car tours 50 long & short walks 30 picnic suggestions. Gran Canaria is gaining in popularity among countryside enthusiasts & especially walkers due to publicity about the old caminos reales centuries-old cobbled trails criss-crossing the island which have recently been restored with EU funding. Gran Canaria has always been underrated as a holiday destination for lovers of the countryside due to the fame of its s&-dune beaches & hours of sunshine. But those who know the island would agree that it is truly a continent in minature with a fantastic diversity of landscapes. From the hub of the cumbre the islands great saddle ravines (barrancos) are born & fan out seaward like spokes on a wheel. Each has its own little secret to share. In the Barranco de los Cernicalos there are knee-deep grasses & a chuckling stream; the Barranco de la Aldea hides an emerald-green reservoir; the Barranco de Guigui opens out to an incomparable beach. ...

Pocket-sized full-colour guide describing car tours walks & countryside picnics. Large-scale topographical walking maps (scale 1:50 000) fold-out touring maps. Timetables for local transport. Unique free on-line update service with specific route change information. Series (50 destinations) dubbed the blue Bibles by the Sunday Times. ...

12 car tours over 50 long & short walks 35 picnic suggestions One of a two-volume guide to Provence intended for motorists who want to tour by car & enjoy some superb walks along the way. Beginning at Aix-en-Provence you travel west via the Luberon & Mont Ventoux to the great Roman cities & the Pont du Gard. After forays north to the Ardeche the Tarn & the Cirque de Navacelles head south through Herault to Carcassonne & the Canal du Midi. Crossing the Corbieres & the Land of the Cathars you reach the foot of Canigou holy mountain of the Pyrenees. The touring routes have been described in such detail that there is no need to make constant reference to a map. The walks selected
- all set in areas of great natural beauty or historical interest
- are those the authors believe offer the greatest sense of satisfaction for the effort involved. They are mostly circular walks suitable for moderately fit people. Unusually for a Landscapes guide this book inludes recommended restaurants with details of their menus.

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Otto Dov Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death translated by Ralph Mandel is a memoir of astounding literary & emotional power exploring the permanent & indelible marks left by the Holocaust & a childhood spent in Auschwitz. As a child the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt & then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism & the Holocaust but always as a discipline requiring the greatest dispassion & objectivity with his personal story set to one side. He has nevertheless remained haunted by specific memories & images thoughts he has been unable to shake off. The extraordinary result of this is Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
- a unique & powerful experiment in how one man has tried to understand his past (and our history). Reviews: This is one of the most remarkable testimonies to inhumanity that I know. The deeply moving recollections of Dov Kulka's boyhood years in Auschwitz interwoven with reflections of elegiac poetic quality vividly convey the horror of the death-camp the trauma of family & friends & the indelible imprint left on the memory of a young boy who became a distinguished historian of the Holocaust. An extraordinarily important work which needs to be read". (Sir Ian Kershaw). " Astonishing...[ Landscapes] is quite simply extraordinary.. .a sort of Modernist precipitate of a historical work something strange & powerful formed from but separate to the solution of history...I can't see how this book could be bettered". (Robert Eaglestone Times Higher Education). " Almost unclassifiable... Nothing else I have read comes close to this profound examination of what the Holocaust means...[ Kulka's] journey strikes me as a quest similar to the attempt to describe the face of God or the structure of the universe. They are too vast & too mysterious. Not that this stops us or this author from trying". (Linda Grant New Statesman). " Primo Levi's testimony it is often said is that of a chemist: clear cool precise distant. So with Kulka's work: this is the product of a master historian
- ironic probing present in the past able to connect the particular with the cosmic. His memory is in the service of deep historical understanding rendered in evocative prose that is here eloquently translated from Hebrew". (Thomas Laqueur Guardian). " Beautiful startling... This is a great book: read it. & be grateful
- its publication is in every possible sense a miracle... This is not history it is something else". (Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times). " Kulka's reflections have an unsettling rawness.. .yet even in Auschwitz there are moments of protest black humour & beauty... This is a grave poetic & horrifying account of the Holocaust which does not so much revisit the Auschwitz of the past but the Auschwitz of Kulka's inner world". (Arifa Akbar Independent). " Unlike any other first-hand account written about the camps...[ Kulka] has done the rest of us
- & the world
- so great a kindness by writing his book.. .offering the barest glint of sunlight amid a thunderous darkness". (Simon Schama Financial Times). About the author: Otto Dov Kulka was born in Czechoslovakia in 1933. He is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."




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