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Each day is a new canvas on which nature paints its moods -- dark and brooding with the coming of winter storms; brilliantly gay and light with summer sunshine. We live with weather every day. It can paint a gorgeous face on a morning or it can wreak heart-breaking havoc. In Weather 2002 photographers from around the world capture weather in its various costumes -- clouds reflecting a fiery sunset, lightning splintering a night sky, an icy mist enshrouding a mountain valley. Hundreds of fascinating weather trivia are included. A collection of natural phenomena that is never the same, weather is always beautiful, always fascinating and -- even in its worst moods -- never boring. ... Read more

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weather 2001 calendar
This is an up-to-date calander with many pictures of weather for 2001. There is many good pictures and information due to the season and/or month.Nice calander. Has many dates to help out w/ holidays and you can write in things for each day ... Read more

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Who left the words out?
A remarkable book of photos that only half works.I say this because I have just read a fascinating interview with Steven Smith by photographer Christopher Sims on the Duke/CDS Books website (I've no idea how long it will be available).Smith explains in careful detail his thoughts on the housing and commercial development in the western states and his working techniques.An edited version of this interview really should have been included to make this the almost perfect photobook.

The eighty-two photos, beautifully printed in an impressively fine screen, are quite technical, overviews of developments showing potential roads, house plots and the way contractors prepare the land, down to details of landscaping for individual homes.Having looked through these photos several times I find there is another editorial weakness to the book, the photos show things that make me ask: 'What's going on here?'For instance, page fifty-one shows lines of piping on a gravel roadway or wide path, the caption says 'Heating coils, Mapleton, Utah, 1999', I really want to know more but this is an 'art' book, so tough.This 'art' book status is also confirmed by having all the very short captions on a couple of pages in the back of the book.They of course should have been centered under each photo.

Steven Smith clearly has something to say with his excellent photographs but I was disappointed that the book's editorial format did not allow them to work as well as they should.A similar book about the hand of (commercial) man on the landscape that I have enjoyed is 'Consuming the American Landscape' (ISBN 1904587003) by photographer John Ganis.This book has a large landscape format that allows the color photos to work so well and a caption under each photo, too.

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The Lonesome Crowded West
I thought Steven Smith's photographs were revelatory in their understated, droll take on our new westward expansion. And I couldn't agree more with Robert Pinsky, now that he's pointed it out (see his recent comments on slate.com), that there is something South Parkian about it all: "Smith's black-and-white photographs share some visual qualities with the cartoon-colored townscape of the TV series: stark expanses where the monumental blankness of a Utah or Colorado sky meets the equally blank geometry of irrigation pipes or two-car garages. Between mountains and fences, between a tremendous rock face and giant stacks of plywood, Smith's images record not so much a contrast as two violent absences joining as a single force. Landfill, seedling, turnabout, heating coil collude with the sky and mountains in a triumph of disproportion: scale not so much confused or lost as irrelevant: a loss of footing that is a visual equivalent for the moral goofs and chasms of South Park. The deadpan, improvised juncture of immensity and triviality: that harsh, uninflected tone [is] shared by these amazing works." That about sums it up.

three thumbs up
This re-visitation of a new topographic concept allows reflection as well as momentary relief from the unending rough and tumble of our ever-expanding lives. It does this by offering amazing aesthetic consideration of a subject matter that often confounds by forcing the laugh most commonly associated with a dirty joke (we might not want others to hear us telling,) and by providing a visual anchor for which we may consider the consequences of an overwhelming capitalist expansion. ... Read more

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Wonderful and mesmerizing photography
One of the few photo books I have bought, this is page afterpage of one woman's face just above the water of hot springs pools in Iceland.Though the woman always has a neutral expression, it is the small variations in her expression that you become sensitive to, as well as the settings, wet, steamy, brighter, or hazy.Thought provoking and beautiful work especially when considering the simple staging and composition. ... Read more

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In this book the author explains how and why different weather patterns affect birds, and advises birdwatchers how to use this knowledge in order to understand short-term weather forecasts and maps to work out where rare sightings of birds might occur. ... Read more

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Reed has spent his career traveling the continent, capturing the drama and beauty of weather. And he shares the best of his collection in Inspirations.

Sit under a starry sky in South Carolina and watch a rare burst of red aurora; trek to the frigid, windswept Columbia Ice Fields in Alberta, Canada; stand feet from a massive tornado in Kansas; watch lightning crackle across a vivid red sky in the Nebraska; stand on a beach in Mississippi as a massive hurricane approaches; and much more.

The powerful photographs are paired with inspiring scripture, each chosen to convey the sentiments of the images.

The perfect gift book for loved ones, friends, and office-mates, Inspirations will not only lift spirits but make them soar.

· Excellent price at $9.95 for a hardcover, medium format, full-color book
· High-quality photographs from one of the world’s most accomplished extreme-weather photographers
· Wide variety of dramatic weather shots from around North America
· Reed and his work have been featured on ABC’s "Good Morning America" and NBC’s "The Today Show", as well as several other major network programs
· Carefully chosen scripture accompanies each photograph
· Gift label on the endsheet makes gift-giving easy
· High-quality production and design

Please visit us at FarcountryPress.com for more information and our other inspiration book, Inspirations: The Miracle of Baby Animals in Pictures and Scripture! ... Read more

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Great Little Gift
This book is a perfect gift item for anyone who is spiritually inclined. It's small and the price is right.The photographs are absolutely jaw-dropping and accompanied by short scripture passages. I got one for my elderly mother-in law - she used it as the basis for her morning devotionals, choosing a photo and then using the scripture passage as the beginning point for her Bible reading. It would also be appropriate for anyone with a love of photography or The Weather Channel! ... Read more

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Over 2,000 photomicrographs of snowflakes, plus slides of frost, rime, glaze, dew and hail. Introduction by meteorologist W. J. Humphreys discusses techniques of photographing snow crystals, science of crystallography, classification and markings. "...page after page of patterns, one more beautiful than the next..."-Country Journal. 202 plates.
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Amazing Stuff
One mans decades long dedication to capturing the beauty of water crystals and a communities support of his collection has paid off.I am in awe of the intensity of vision to capture the nearly ephemeral nature of snow and ice crystals.A great book.

Snow Crystals
If you are looking for a book on background history about Bentley, this isn't it. But, if you are looking for a book with tons and tons of examples of his work, this is the one! The cover of this book is exactly what you will find inside, page after page of 36+ snowflakes on each. The pictures are crisp and detailed. This book will be one that you pick up over and over again just to look. Thousands of snowflakes and so detailed, quite amazing! A must for children whether they have had any introduction to Bentley's work or not. Well worth the money but might be better in hard back as you will wear out the cover opening and closing it so often! Enjoy!

Snow Crystals (Dover Photography Collections)
It had some very ineresting shapes but I found it very boring. I think it could have been put together better, especially for the price

A classic example of meticulous effort; a beautiful collection
Snow Crystals by Bentley represents the exhilarating beauty and complexity of snowflakes in photographs taken with painstaking effort and enterprise. The book has a very useful introduction, though most of it is devoted to the diverse patterns exhibited by snowflakes. The quest to understand why snowflakes have their delightful shape and symmetry has intrigued the scientists, poets and philosophers for centuries. For example, in sixteenth century, Kepler's essay (On six-cornered snowflake) presents a very illuminating (and perhaps first scientific) account of his thought process on the physics of why snowflake is formed. He discussed several key ideas relevant to packing problems, and on their shapes, and the book by Bentley surely dazzles in being able to present a diverse range of possibilities realized by nature. Highly recommended to science enthusiasts, artists, photographers and atmospheric physicists.

"Snow Crystals" is a blizzard of beauty
In case you are trying to decide between "Snowflakes in Photographs" and "Snow Crystals", both by Bentley and published by Dover, this book is the better deal. Ironically, you get twice as many snowflake photos in "Snow Crystals" than in "Snowflakes in Photographs".Both beautiful books feature stunning black and white photographs of snowflakes but this book definitely has better 'text' support. I bought the two books at the same time thinking that this one focused more on Bentley and the other one focused more on the pictures, but it was a mistake. This is a case of "you get what you pay for" and the only reason to buy "Snowflakes in Photographs" over this one is that it is a bit cheaper. Buy "Snow Crystals", it is a blizzard of beauty with gorgeous photographs of snowflakes, nature's fragile crystalline miracles. ... Read more

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Clouds
Clouds is an excellent book.It gives a thorough background of the many types of clouds and how they affect our planet.I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about climate.The pictures in particular are outstanding and help to distinguish the many types of clouds.

Clouds by Eric Wilcox
This is a beautiful book and Eric's scientific input is concise and understandable for the layman.I thourghly enjoyed it and so do my guests that see it on my coffeetable.
Victoria Murphy

Nice combination of art and science
The pictures are big and the scientific/technical explanations are concise yet clear to the layman.This is a coffee table book - drink your coffee, look out the window, and think about how the cloud was formed and the physics of the atmosphere.

Nicely done.

Poor photos, an overpriced book
I know clouds are, by definition, "fuzzy". But this book seems to glorify that fact. I've seen many cloud books that have sharp photos, but perhaps shooting in UK, the air is kind of muddied. Very disappointing.

I didn't buy this book, but cataloged it for my library. ... Read more

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This attractive and entertaining guide to the clouds, helps readers to identify every cloud type and related phenomena, and understand its implications for the weather. Unlike other books about clouds and weather, which can be very scientific and hard to understand, The Cloud Book follows a logical progression from low clouds to the high stratus clouds, and on to special clouds. The book also features a detailed introduction on the history of cloud classification--how it came about, the challenge involved with naming transitional forms in nature and how it was overcome.Packed with stunning images from the Met Office's archive combined with a lively and informative text, this is the definitive guide to the clouds and the skies. ... Read more

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Not exactly light reading.
This book has everything a normal person would ever want to know about clouds and probably alot of information most people don't.Virtually every page in this book has beautifull color pictures of the clouds currently being discussed.Every cloud has a latin name and scientic symbol that needs to be learned to carry on through the book.Would be good for reference use but not a good book to just sit down and thumb through. ... Read more

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Experience wild weather through spectacular photographs

Grab your slicker, hold on to your hat, and get ready to experience one of the most dangerous and exciting jobs in the world--storm chasing with Warren Faidley.

"Eye-catching...Dramatic full-color photos of lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes are a vivid testimony to the dedicated efforts of Warren Faidley, storm chaser and photographer. Kramer's readable, exciting text allows readers to ride with Faidley in his specially equipped vehicle, Shadow Chaser, as he races to intercept likely tornado or lightning producers." --School Library Journal, starred review

"Kramer's narrative, generously embellished with Faidley's photos, follows this professional storm chaser along his various treks, lucidly explaining both the prevailing weather systems and the photographic challenges presented by each atmospheric phenomenon....Kramer keeps the tone immediate and tense." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books ... Read more

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This book was very good
Tao, age 7:

I like that when he talks about his experiences he makes it seem exciting.And I like the seven storm night part, that he tried to take a picture but he didn't, but I still like it.


His mom:

I really like this book.It has vivid descriptions of the life of Warren Faidley, a storm photographer.It talks about how he photographs lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes.It includes many details of his daily life, such as visits to weather centers, navigating unmarked farm roads to chase tornadoes, and even the many oil changes needed for his specially outfitted vehicle, "Shadow Chaser."Along the way, we learn about the science of storms as well. My only criticism is that some of the descriptions of events are a bit confusing, and it would be nice if the photos had captions. Overall a very exciting book combining science, adventure, and biography.

A smaller "Strom Chaser"
This book is a beautiful summery of Faidley's "Storm Chaser" forkids. The photos are simply breadth-taking and incredible. Most kids wouldbe more interested in storm chasing than storms itself, but Faidley willuse his wonderful photos to arouse their curiosity about the science behindour violent atmosphere. If the words can't leave them gasping awe, thephotographs will. ... Read more

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Saifu cloth-bound, 11" x 17" inches, 88 pages, 40 full color images, with four 34inch black and white fold out images.About Jay Tyrrell

Jay Tyrrell has always been a photographer. This passion started when he agitated trays in his father's darkroom, and continues through a career on a trading desk in the bond business, Jay's work is held in many private, corporate collections and museums, and is represented by the Geras-Tousignant Gallery in San Francisco and by Wall Space in Seattle. He lives in Walnut Creek, California and on Howe Sound in British Columbia. ... Read more