Images are nice, but a little too much alike
341264
Images are nice, but a little too much alike.  It would have been preferable to have two distinctly different-looking species of palm.
2390038
My family and I enjoyed putting this puzzle together.
It's a very attractive scene, but I was a little disappointed that the artist apparently hacked this image together using photoshop.  It's hard to tell from the Amazon image, but when looking at the actual puzzle, you can tell that many of the animals and flowers are the same image, flipped, rotated, or resized.
Other than that, it's a perfectly good jigsaw puzzle.
282859
Some of the designs are beautiful, but some of them are very similar and there aren't very many. For the price, I feel there should be at least double the number of pages and larger variety.
784713
First of all -- this is a set  of rather good images.  (Possibly)  Unreasonably close up, the  images do not show what I want to see from a large format film image.  To be fair, no presentation was made as to  the image quality.  To be realistic -- from a nomal viewing distance -- this is a rather attractive calendar.  Is it worth buying?  YES.  Maybe I am too fussy.  In reality, only if you (unreasonably) scrutinize the images when your nose is on top of them will make my comments any sense.  Buy it!
4412244
In spite of the fine features of this product, these are things I would like to see corrected:

Among the awesome number of images are some reproductions of botanical prints and fine paintings such as seascapes and still-lifes.  The images cannot be blown up enough for quarter-fold-card fronts without loosing sharpness.

The thumbnail sketch in the "My Projects" screen can have a different name than the image file, which might happen when you rename the thumbnail.  And when you delete any thumbnail, you do not delete its file.

The "My Projects" screen seems a bit glitchy -- it set up two sections for quarter-fold cards and two for posters, interspersed them, and left long blank spaces when I tried to reorganize the screen.  I would like to be able to edit this screen.

When saving projects, I cannot find a way to change the default path to put them in a folder of my preference.

Conclusion:  great program, biggest problem, IMO, is the lack of sharpness of some of the best images.
3174692
I admire the quality of the photographs, which are mostly portraits of musicians. The presentation is artful: very nice bindings, good paper, artful presentation, well-rendered reproductions. For this I am giving the book four stars.

What's missing is sufficient variety and meaning to hold the viewer's interest. The musicians have a hippie-look that seems a bit old-fashioned and gets trite. There is not much text to make us care about the people. So while the photography is good and the general quality is excellent, the subject matter does not seem deserving of the care lavished upon the publication. I suppose fans of the musicians who are pictured will be the primary purchasers of this book, and they should be very pleased.
4152683
While this book is a wonderful curation of some very powerful images. In addition to having a snippet of historical data that I found interesting and exciting to read, the producers made a horrible decision in the dimensions of this book, many of the images, are wider then a single page, leading to several images being chopped in the crease of the spine, therby disfiguring the images in some way. It would have been wiser to simply make this book another few inches wider to preserve the integrety of the photographs. But sadly, some of histories most recognizeable photos cannot be enjoyed to the fullest, do to this printing issue. I found myself resorting to the internet so I could fully enjoy certain pictures featured in this book.
2929637
A few of the images don't really have an outline and others are sort of light grey in the details, but over all lots of good images to color.
1160151
New York in the Snow is almost successful in achieving its subtitle A Magical Vision of New York City. I say this because, although some of the photographs are almost magically successful at capturing the moment and the mood, others seem almost to be fillers. But, without doubt, they all live up to the title, although technically it should be New York CITY in the Snow.

The fact that this is a rather small format for a coffee table book probably doesnt help matters. Some photos are no larger than 3.75 x 2.75. There is a mix of color, black and white, and a sepia-like treatment which I found very appealing, especially when dealing with lit buildings at night.

This is a very personal book. Not only does it contain the photographers vision and technical expertise (which is abundant) but also her feelings as portrayed in verse, the metadata of the photos, and technical explanations or descriptions of the moment they were taken. The curatorial decisions of which photos to use and how to group and display them seems somewhat erratic to me, even though the book is technically organized into topics (Silence, Storms, Embrace, and Memory). Again, I suppose that this is personal to the author/photographer. Curiously, I found photos to like under all the categories.

Being so personal, it is natural that some images may not speak to another person who did not share the moment or does not share the same aesthetic. As a result, there are some photos that have absolutely no appeal to me, photos that I find almost generic. Then there are others that are almost mystical in their appeal, that capture a mood Ive felt or a moment Ive lived--maybe not in that place but somewhere. There have been pages which I dismissed and turned rapidly, and pages which grabbed my attention, with which I immediately connected, and that touched me.

I think that this will be the case with most readers and that all will find a little bit of themselves in some of the images.
4329006
Slightly bummed out that the image was not very well centered but still like it!
3951045
I love the art but I didn't think it would be just like computer paper pictures.
2502966
I had high expectation for this book and I must admit that I found the concept behind it quite intriguing.  I had seen several images from this book published in numerous photographic magazines and had hoped the entire  book was as strong as the images I had seen published.  Unfortunately, the  balance of the images were not as strong as the few I had seen published.  Conceptually strong, photographically not as strong as I might have hoped  for.
1247859
This is okay as far as coloring books go. There's tons of images in this thick book with some repeats. I give it 3/5 stars because the quality of the coloring pages isn't as awesome as the "Adult Coloring Book Treasury 1." A lot of the images look like something you could print from the internet for free - with that poor xerox line quality. Overall I'm a bit disappointed in the quality, as well as the variety of images. I'd definitely recommend the first treasury book, but not this one.
3158655
The picture definition is not good on this product as there are more than 2 images in there and you can see more than one at a time.
3001583
I love the images on these cards.  I have used tarot cards for decades, not so much for divination as for self-examination, and I've recently discovered Lenormand cards.  These strike me as being a bit like both, maybe somewhere in between.  They're specific like Lenormand, but have a feeling of maybe just a bit more story to them, like tarot cards.  The certainly resonate with me.  More than once I've turned up a card and found myself teary-eyed with recognition.  The cards have titles like "Unexpected Visitors", "Sad Embrace", "Golden Palace", "Ride the Wave", and "Rock Bottom".

In the interest of full disclosure, I bought my deck at a brick-and-mortar store, so maybe that's why it does NOT have the gilded edges other have spoken of.  I find the cards themselves physically unpleasant, which is why I'm only giving them four stars instead of five. They're thick and seem kind of sticky, not silky.  They are impossible to shuffle.  I have to pry them apart with my fingers.  The box, while sturdy, has the same problem.  The lid feels sticky and is very hard to get off.

I was also disappointed that I had to go looking for the name of the artist.  As far as I can tell, Baron-Reid is the designer of the deck and the author of the nice little book that comes with the cards.  But in very small print at the the bottom of the back of the box, it says "Cover art and card illustrations: Jena Dellagrottaglia Maldonado".  In the image on the amazon page, the image of the back of the box only credits Maldonado with the cover art, so you wouldn't know she was the artist for the cards at all.  At least I assume that "card illustrations" means that she is the artist.  It reminded me of how for decades the Waite-Smith tarot deck was known as Waite-Rider, and the artist's name was left off.
861919
Very well done but not as many good pictures as I'd hoped.
3372641
Donna Gustafson's Images From The World Between: The Circus in 20th Century American Art is something of a mixed bag. On the one hand it does offer a number of images of rare artistic works depicting or inspired by the world of the circus, from the straightforward to the surreal, from impressionist to abstract.  Many of these I had never seen before, and so the book does merit consideration for anyone interested in the imagery of circus life and how it is seen by various artists.  There are also some purely photographic works, but they seemed out of place here and there are definitely better and more comprehensive books for purely photographic images of the circus.

On the definite plus side, for me anyway, was the discovery of some works and artists with which I was not previously familiar. Reginald Marsh's paintings from the 1930's were quite compelling, capturing the rowdy atmosphere of the crowds and the sideshow and the raw muscularity of trapeze artists in mid-flight.  Robert Riggs' lithographs, also from the 1930's, vividly capture acts in the ring, one of tumblers being watched not only by the crowds but by their fellow circus performers with the band playing in accompaniment, and another of an elephant act with five elephants, one bearing a female rider aloft, playing to the crowd as the handlers on the ground put the animals through their paces, with clowns on the sidelines carrying on, a frenzied moment all perfectly caught in time.

That said, however, I was expecting more from this book than I found in it. The text sections are mildly informative but with an academic bent that lacked appeal, more commentary than narration, and I found myself wishing that more space had been allocated to the art than to the text. The book would have, I feel, been better off leaving the photographic sections to other books and including more paintings, drawings and sculptures to give a broader selection both in breadth and depth of those works and artists. I kept looking for, hoping for, more depictions of other of the many varied aspects of circus life, and I felt that the book came up short of what it could have been.

All in all, I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the circus and in how circus life and performances have been portrayed by artists over the years, though with the qualifier that is of only limited value and that there are likely to be other better books on the subject.