Celebrated wildlife photographer Angie Birmingham (“WT F-STOP”) introduces burgeoning photo-takers to their photo equipment and helps them develop the techniques for stunning outdoor photography. From mastering exposure to optimizing focus and lighting, Angie shows how to find the right styles to tell visual stories and present compelling images. Learn landscape composition along with the best ways to shoot animals, birds, and flowers; and find out how skilled photographers capture all the details while manipulating backgrounds and mood. From newcomers to professionals, everybody who loves taking wildlife pictures will thrill at how easy Angie makes it for you to continue your own Journey Through the Lens.

The autobiography of cinematographer Erik Daarstad, whose distinguished 60-year career in documentary films has followed the long arc of history.

This is the second book with the same title as the previous one, Journey Through The Lens. But, it has a unique subtitle, Photographic Journal by Philip Soul Hiker, which contains a little more personal experiences, lessons, and thoughts along with my hiking and photography journey. I hope that the pictures became more meaningful and gave inspirations in the life.

Street photographers will never tire of New York as a subject. It is the perfect setting for the genre, the world's most evocative cityscape, against which candid, memorable moments play themselves out every day. Nearly a decade ago, Vivienne Gucwa began walking the streets of the city with the only camera she could afford a sub-$100 point-and-shoot and started taking pictures. Choosing a direction and going as far as her feet would take her, she noticed lines, forms and structures that had previously gone unnoticed, but which resonated, embodying a sense of home. Having limited equipment forced her to learn about light, composition and color, and her burgeoning talent won her blog millions of readers and wide recognition in the photographic community. New York Through the Lens showcases the stunning results of her ongoing quest. Filled with spectacular photographs and illuminated by Vivienne's own insightful commentary, NY Through the Lens acts as a beautiful travel guide to the city; it will be a must-read for her many fans and for any lover of street photography.

New York City in the late '70s was a collection of villages with its downtown scene, midtown workers, and uptown elegance. It was also a city that was more integrated than ever before or ever would be again. All of the city's humanity met in its streets with layered soundtracks of salsa, rock, disco, reggae, and soon hip-hop booming for all to groove to. But, NYC was also a place of chaos and mayhem. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy with rampant crime it was the city's drug users, dealers, and pimps and prostitutes who ruled the streets of Manhattan. The grittiness of the city was a beacon and a promise to many outsiders, those who didn't quite fit into any mold, and a vibrant LGBTQ community became the nexus of an underworld of sex workers who liked to party. For a NYC cabbie such as Joseph Rodriguez, the hot spots to pick up fares were clubs like the Hellfire, Mineshaft, The Anvil, The Vault, and Show World. Losing his first camera and lens in a classic '70s New York stabbing and mugging, Rodriguez's wounds healed and he armed himself with a new camera to document what he saw on the job: hookers getting off their shifts, transvestites and S&M partiers doin' it in the back seat or somehow pulling off an unlikely costume change from bondage gear to emerge from the cab clean-cut in an oxford and khakis ready to face unwitting family and friends. A humanist at heart, his photographs speak of the dignity of the city's working class from all the boroughs and those struggling to get by. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project provided funding to support Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987.

Through the Lens: Dallas Arts District is a collaboration between the Dallas Arts District (DAD), HALL Group, corporate sponsors and participating local photographers to raise funds for the Dallas Arts District Foundation - the granting arm that re-invests in the visual and performing arts in Dallas.'Through the Lens' was a juried photography competition, open to artists at all levels of experience, featuring photos of the Dallas Arts District. A total of 91 winning images and 57 photographers are featured in this hardbound coffee table book sold at venues throughout the Dallas Arts District. All gross proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Dallas Arts District Foundation. This is the first fundraiser that will support the grants program since the first donation in 1984 by the Crow family.