- From the same authors who brought you the bestselling At the Ocean photobook- Filled with full-color photographs of gorgeous houses in their wild, natural settings- For adventurer travelers and lovers of beauty Photographer Mirjam Bleeker and stylist and designer Frank Visser have known each other for more than 18 years. During this time they have traveled around the world, often without a fixed plan, seeking adventure and beautiful houses. On their travels, they visited the homes and holiday retreats of some fascinating people, built in the most beautiful and unspoiled places. Immortalized in gorgeous full-color photographs, this book is a homage to the remote way of life.

This book encourages one to explore the natural world from a close-up perspective. The colorful and unique images allow the reader to view nature from a different view.

One of the country's foremost nature photographers offers closeup techniques and covers exposure, equipment and composition along with special equipments and lenses.

96 brilliant photographs -- 11 in full color -- by outstanding contemporary master: an eroding claybank, sand-scrubbed driftwood, the spine of a skate, a barnacle colony, a pebble polished by the sea, the jaw of an anglerfish, and much more. "The author works at his art with zest and a poet's perception". -- Publishers Weekly.

Explores the physical characteristics, reproduction, habitat, and metamorphosis of tadpoles. Includes hands-on activities.

Guide to macro-photography gear and techniques. How to recognize and compose intimate natural scenes.