photography books

[StuartDH]

What are your favourite photography books that have helped take pictures of wildlife, landscapes and the environment?

[Captain Kev]

Originally Posted by StuartDH

What are your favourite photography books that have helped take pictures of wildlife, landscapes and the environment?

Anything by Jim Brandenburg, nothing inspires me more than perusing one of his Books, every picture tells a story with our Jim, and you can tell he puts a lot of thought into every shot. "Brother Wolf" in my opinion is one of the best wildlife books ever.

My first real photography book was the RSPB guide to wildlife photography by Laurie Campbell and in my view this is still a classic. Helped me enormously when I was starting out.

Not forgetting Stephen Dalton, for mind-numbingly great and not to mention different views of British wildlife of all shapes and sizes.

[Alan]

I second the above books.

For digital, try Digital SLR Handbook by Andy Rouse.

It's a good read with plenty of hands on info and advice.

Also any book by Frans Lanting. Inspiration heaven!

[Life Through A Lens]

I've got loads of books on techniques (composition, exposure etc etc) but these tend to leave me over-saturated with information.

Personally I have found WPOTY books and Andy Rouse's Life in the Wild: A Photographer's Year to be great sources of inspiration.

Olly

[goosey]

I have three wonderful books by Jon Sparks. They are full of beautiful landscape images of the Lake District through the seasons. They have a little bit of text to go with the images but are not "know how" or "how to" books.
I spend hours looking at them not just as a bit of nostalgia and longing to be there myself, but for ideas for myself really, on which way to point the camera or from which angle, or think - that stone or bit of bark will make an interesting subject, ideas which I probably wouldn't have thought of myself.

I was lucky to win the first one in a radio competition "Moods of the Lakeland Tarns," and asked for Lake District Moods and Moods of the Lakeland Fells as presents. These books are a true inspiration to me .

[paul m]

As Olly mentioned, you can be overwhelmed by books - although it's nice to have a reference manual .... I suppose. Actually, I've never read a photography book except on quite abstruse aspects (photomicrography, polarised mineral sections .... not your everday stuff).

When I first got in to 35mm photography, I subscribed to Amateur Photographer - don't know whether it's still published - that had lots of basic stuff in small doses, along with up-to-date information about innovations and simple expositions of age-old techniques or, indeed, novel ones such as (at the time) solarisation.

Might be worth looking at photo mags? Possibly there are publications all over the world?