Realistic images with basic info
584070
Excellent book for my 2.5 yo who loves planets! I wanted a basic book with realistic images. This was perfectly that, and each planet also has a short fun fact.
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!
2753976
This book is a pretty typical Native Herbal. Like its sister book, Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie, it provides simplistic black and white illustrations of the plants and their components, a map showing you their native region, both their Common and Scientific Names as well as the names used by the Native Tribes who used them, a description of both the plants and their usual habitat, their cultivation, and their common uses (and the parts that are used) by the Native American tribes that utilized them as food sources.

The only thing I really find disappointing about this book is the fact that it favors Black and White illustration over color photography. While black and white illustration can be valuable for isolation core features of a plant, it doesn't provide the range of true to life detail that color photography does- and in my experience, books which use color photography do increase the rate of accurate identification, with or without being combined with black and white illustration to augment it. This is incredibly important to me as the book is focused on the identification of herbs to be used for food purposes, where accurate identification is integral to safety.
4333074
Previous reviewers have commented on the beauty of the computer-enhanced pictures, and with this I fully agree. Thumbing through several bird guides before deciding on this one, I found the pictures to be of superior quality. Even if they are over-idealized, this itself may be a useful feature for the beginner (a possible over-enhancement to make the point).

The content of the book should offer sufficient depth without sacrificing portability, and this is true of this book. It is reasonably priced. You get a lot of bang for your buck. Each species of bird has a short-paragraph description.

The book is divided into color-tabbed chapters according to everyday groupings (not necessarily strict taxonomic groupings). This allows for a quick placing of most birds into readily-identifiable categories. As several previous reviewers have pointed out, the range maps are outstanding. An index of bird names is provided in the back, and a box is provided next to each bird name, enabling the reader/birder to check off  the names of each bird seen during a lifetime of observation, especially as one travels across North America.
2084452
If you are looking for a decent DS CCD photography workshop/calendar, this is what you are looking for.
The book starts out with some basics about astro photograpy and CCD imaging and moves on to a little equipment guide, covering mounts, OTA's,
CCD camera's and autoguiding for Astro photography.

The photographs clearly depict the objects without having used a 5 figure mount / OTA.
So one can work on a similar/better result including some guidance on framing, darks, flats and exposure times.
All objects have a description with their history, designations, RA and DEC, MAG, Size and constellation.
Furthermore the pictures include the imaging device used, Telescope, FOV, Exposures, scale and limiting magnitude.
Loving it!
831530
nice clear instructions, lots of picture to help guide us amateurs....
3161160
Great book with explanations via images that are much easier to understand and actually learn.
578934
A great introduction to this art form with pictures and short but crisp explanations. The book is written in simple language not drawing attention away from the subject. A very good book.
704287
A good book to start understanding Raw imagery
423632
Along with facing page column of info on the 50 different buildings.  Virtually every photo is an exterior shot mostly giving you a feeling of the building in the context of its setting.  One of the only large FLW photo books with no black and white photos, the one photo of him being in color which is pretty rare.  The book does leave ya feeling that you want more.  At 128 pages it's not thin like some of the under 100 page big FLW books but it's not hefty either, that's for sure.  It's nicely done.  I see that trees are prominent in almost each picture.  It is nice to also have a book of just his homes.  When presented together in one book without the churches, public or corporate buildings you get a feeling of a tone he set for homes.  The homes photographed in the midst of their settings gives you a real sense of how it looks to come up to each of these homes, some in snow, and how they belong in their environment.  This is not a masterpiece but it isn't bad either.  I think I'd give it 3 1/2 stars.  chrisbct@hotmail.com
3627619
All the pictures were easy to see clearly.  There was no guessing about the subject.  I will buy more of this kind.
161957
I enjoyed this book for the different types of pictures that were available.
1225575
Fascinating detail and great pictures to aid in modeling.
2183989
Not a great learning curve, the images coming from such a device are impressive, and the colors are close to true.
Two formats are available, JPG and PDF, and the scanner defaults to JPG. It would be nice if you could select which format was default. Small gripe that in no way makes me like it any less.
172328
Simple and sophisticated, is good resources for those interested in photography, especially in Street Photography. It contains basic tech-skills to take the-beauty-simple-life images. Utmost, it shows new ways of thinking to inspire readers walk out the ordinary of life
1399621
Well illustrated and described poses.  Recommends sequences of varying degrees of difficulty.
3858101
This is a beautiful book with lots of photos. It is written from a British perspective, but the information is appropriate for America as well. It does not have the depth of another book that I read, but it has all the basic information that a novice might need. It has some tips that are useful as well. I will be keeping it for the photos alone for they are a pleasure to look at.