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Nature
Photography
 Light
on the Earth
You won't find a much better collection of nature photographs,
the best from 20 years of the prestigious international Wildlife
Photographer of the Year Competition, representing most of the
world's top photographers. There are more than 170 photographs
in this lavish, large-format book, covering all natural subjects,
with an emphasis on beauty, colour and form as well as unforgettable
scenes of both animal behaviour and landscape, grouped in the
following chapters: illuminations, portraits, moments, formations,
reflections and connections. Each picture is accompanied by
a memorable and informative caption, and each chapter has an
introduction by a famous photographer or personality, from Yann
Arthus-Bertrand to Frans Lanting and Chris Packham. An index
of photographic details will be also be provided. Nature
Photography.
 Life
in the Undergrowth
David Attenborough reveals a secret universe it is teeming with
life and is all around us, yet we never see it. It is the world
of the very small, and it is a world of sex, drugs and violence.
Here David shows us not just bugs, beetles and creepy-crawlies,
but scorpions and centipedes, mites and mantids, spiders and
dragonflies. And not just life in the undergrowth, but the dramatic
battles between predator and prey that are happening in the
corner of your living room and in your larder. See magnificent
spectacles: swarming antler moths; millions of desert locusts;
a mountain of locusts. For every pound of humans on Earth, there
are 300 pounds of insects. Nature Photography.
 Water
Light Time
Beneath the world's waters lie landscapes, species, vegetations
and populations as diverse as those on land, yet these kingdoms
have been explored by few. This book looks at the work of David
Doubilet, artist, diver, and underwater photographer. From the
shores of the Galapogos to the Red sea, from the Pacific ocean
to the fresh waters of North America, the book includes over
25 years of the photographer's work, and reveals the beauty
of more than 30 bodies of water rich with life forms. Nature
Photography.
 Wildlife
Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 15
The fifteenth portfolio from the prestigious Wildlife Photographer
of the Year competition is a collectable book for wildlife enthusiasts
and fans of world-class photography alike. This new collection
of stunning wildlife photographs represents the best images
taken by top nature photographers around the world that have
been submitted to the 2005 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
competition. This lavish book features 90-100 unforgettable,
beautiful images of nature, of everything from animal behaviour
and portraits, to underwater scenes, landscapes and abstract
compositions. Selected from more than 18,000 entries representing
photographers from at least 50 countries, these winning and
commended images are a commemorative collection from the world's
largest and most prestigious wildlife photography competition.
Each is accompanied by an informative and memorable caption,
which includes photographic details. Nature
Photography.
 Antarctica:
The Blue Continent
This is the story of Antarctica, the last great wilderness on
earth. Isolated by ice, wind and the wild seas of the Southern
Ocean, it is the world's most pristine environment, a region
of spectacular natural beauty that is home, despite extreme
weather conditions, to an astonishing diversity of wildlife.
Written by polar experts and packed with maps and photographs,
Antarctica journeys through the continent's landscape, ecology
and history. It introduces the penguins, whales, seals and many
other species that have perfected techniques of survival here,
and explains the threat that global warming poses to their unique
habitats. It also celebrates human endurance in a harsh environment,
from the contemporary scientists snowed into their research
stations to the heroic but often tragic explorers of the past,
such as Amundsen, who reached the Pole in 1911, Scott, who perished
in the attempt, and Shackleton, who survived months on the ice
without suitable clothing or equipment. For travellers to Antarctica
and for those who will never reach this most inaccessible of
continents, hundreds of photographs capture a entrancing landscape
of peaks, glaciers, icebergs and wind-carved snow sculptures,
as well as penguin colonies, seal wallows and the historical
sites that have been literally frozen in time.
Through
the Lens: "National Geographic" Greatest Photographs
Through the Lens is a stunning collection of photos judiciously
apportioned to represent the regions of the earth, the sea and
outer space; humans and nature; and even the history of the
medium, a few historic black and whites contrast dramatically
with the eye-popping modern colour shots that dominate the book.
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