When DMV employee/sleuth Claire Montrose inherits a painting that looks as if it might be valuable, she encounters two men who are a little too eager to assist her in its appraisal.

Featuring images of the natural world from Australia, Canada and Antarctica, this text is a how-to guide by a widely-published amateur nature photographer, packed with lots of ideas and practical information for photography enthusiasts.

This guide introduces military personnel to the theory of light and optics, the camera, the principles of photographic exposure, characteristics of sensitized photographic materials, photographic chemistry, photographic processing, and pictorial operations under extreme climatic conditions.

Photographs are used as documents, evidence, and records every day in courtrooms, hospitals, and police work, on passports, permits, and licenses. But how did such usages come to be established and accepted, and when? What kinds of photographs were seen seen as purely instrumental and able to function in this way? What sorts of agencies and institutions had the power to give them this status? And more generally, what conception of photographic representation did this involve, and what were its consequences?