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Digital Landscape and Nature Photography For Dummies

Author : Doug Sahlin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118146301
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Digital Landscape and Nature Photography For Dummies written by Doug Sahlin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step instruction on creating beautiful nature and landscape portraits This eye-popping guide walks you through the nitty gritty of how to take memorable and stunning landscape and nature photos. Packed with constructive advice and a good dose of friendly handholding, this full-color and extra large-trim beginner guide escorts you through the basics of photography and explains how to apply those fundamentals when taking high-quality photos. Walks you through the basics of photography and details how you can apply those skills to nature and landscape photography Zeroes in on ways to sharpen your skills by adjusting exposure, composition, and lighting in order to get the best results Explores the most popular landscape themes and describes how to capture them, including forests, mountains, crashing waves, and sunsets Shares tips on processing photos, making common repairs, and finding inspiration Digital Landscape and Nature Photography For Dummies investigates the most popular nature themes and describes how to capture them, including birds, animals in the wild, animals in captivity, flowers, and insects.

Placing Nature

Author : Joan Nassauer
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610910990
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Placing Nature written by Joan Nassauer and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape ecology is a widely influential approach to looking at ecological function at the scale of landscapes, and accepting that human beings powerfully affect landscape pattern and function. It goes beyond investigation of pristine environments to consider ecological questions that are raised by patterns of farming, forestry, towns, and cities.Placing Nature is a groundbreaking volume in the field of landscape ecology, the result of collaborative work among experts in ecology, philosophy, art, literature, geography, landscape architecture, and history. Contributors asked each other: What is our appropriate role in nature? How are assumptions of Western culture and ingrained traditions placed in a new context of ecological knowledge? In this book, they consider the goals and strategies needed to bring human-dominated landscapes into intentional relationships with nature, articulating widely varied approaches to the task.In the essays: novelist Jane Smiley, ecologist Eville Gorham, and historian Curt Meine each examine the urgent realities of fitting together ecological function and culture philosopher Marcia Eaton and landscape architect Joan Nassauer each suggest ways to use the culture of nature to bring ecological health into settled landscapes urban geographer Judith Martin and urban historian Sam Bass Warner, geographer and landscape architect Deborah Karasov, and ecologist William Romme each explore the dynamics of land development decisions for their landscape ecological effects artist Chris Faust's photographs juxtapose the crass and mundane details of land use with the poetic power of ecological pattern.Every possible future landscape is the embodiment of some human choice. Placing Nature provides important insight for those who make such choices -- ecologists, ecosystem managers, watershed managers, conservation biologists, land developers, designers, planners -- and for all who wish to promote the ecological health of their communities.

Antaeus

Author : Daniel Halpern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780880011211
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Antaeus written by Daniel Halpern and published by . This book was released on 1986-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature Framed

Author : Eva Hagberg
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 158093319X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Nature Framed written by Eva Hagberg and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five recent residential projects from around the United States take the concept of “green living” to the next architectural level. Going beyond the simple use of sustainable materials, these houses are designed to frame a very particular vision of nature for their owners that brings them as close as possible to nature while remaining indoors. Featured are dynamic designs by today's most energetic architectural firms including ARO, Tod Williams/Billie Tsien, Diller Scofidio + Renfro as well as up-and-coming smaller firms. Houses vary in scale, complexity, and site to give a broad survey of the potential of this cutting-edge approach.

Visions of Nature

Author : Jarrod Hore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520381254
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Nature written by Jarrod Hore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : dispossession in focus : between ancestral ties and settler territoriality -- Six geobiographies : senses of site in the white settler world -- Space and the settler geographical imagination : the survey, the camera, and the problematic of waste -- A clock for seeing : revelation and rupture in settler colonial landscapes -- Tanga Whaka-ahua or, the man who makes the likenesses : managing indigenous presence in colonial landscapes -- Colonial encounter, epochal time, and settler romanticism in the nineteenth century -- Noble cities from primeval rorest : settler territoriality on the world stage -- Settler nativity : nations and natures into the twentieth century -- Conclusion : settler colonialism, reconciliation, and the problems of place.

What Nature Suffers to Groe

Author : Mart A. Stewart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820324593
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book What Nature Suffers to Groe written by Mart A. Stewart and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What Nature Suffers to Groe" explores the mutually transforming relationship between environment and human culture on the Georgia coastal plain between 1680 and 1920. Each of the successive communities on the coast--the philanthropic and imperialistic experiment of the Georgia Trustees, the plantation culture of rice and sea island cotton planters and their slaves, and the postbellum society of wage-earning freedmen, lumbermen, vacationing industrialists, truck farmers, river engineers, and New South promoters--developed unique relationships with the environment, which in turn created unique landscapes. The core landscape of this long history was the plantation landscape, which persisted long after its economic foundation had begun to erode. The heart of this study examines the connection between power relations and different perceptions and uses of the environment by masters and slaves on lowcountry plantations--and how these differing habits of land use created different but interlocking landscapes. Nature also has agency in this story; some landscapes worked and some did not. Mart A. Stewart argues that the creation of both individual and collective livelihoods was the consequence not only of economic and social interactions but also of changing environmental ones, and that even the best adaptations required constant negotiation between culture and nature. In response to a question of perennial interest to historians of the South, Stewart also argues that a "sense of place" grew out of these negotiations and that, at least on the coastal plain, the "South" as a place changed in meaning several times.

Man in the Landscape

Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082032714X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Man in the Landscape written by Paul Shepard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world. Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of technology, this book explores the emergence of modern attitudes in literature, art, and architecture--their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures. With humor and wit, Shepard considers the influence of Christianity on ideas of nature, the absence of an ethic of nature in modern philosophy, and the obsessive themes of dominance and control as elements of the modern mind. In his discussions of the exploration of the American West, the establishment of the first national parks, and the reactions of pioneers to their totally new habitat, he identifies the transport of traditional imagery into new places as a sort of cultural baggage.

Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic

Author : Kenneth Olwig
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299174247
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic written by Kenneth Olwig and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, nature, national. In the first sense, the land is a physical and bounded body of terrain upon which the nation state is constructed (e.g., the purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain, from sea to shining sea). In the second, the country is constituted through its people and established through time and precedence (e.g., land where our fathers died, land of the Pilgrims’ pride). Kenneth Robert Olwig’s extended exploration of these discourses is a masterful work of scholarship both broad and deep, which opens up new avenues of thinking in the areas of geography, literature, theater, history, political science, law, and environmental studies. Olwig tracks these ideas though Anglo-American history, starting with seventeenth-century conflicts between the Stuart kings and the English Parliament, and the Stuart dream of uniting Scotland with England and Wales into one nation on the island of Britain. He uses a royal production of a Ben Jonson masque, with stage sets by architect Inigo Jones, as a touchstone for exploring how the notion of "landscape" expands from artful stage scenery to a geopolitical ideal. Olwig pursues these contested concepts of the body politic from Europe to America and to global politics, illuminating a host of topics, from national parks and environmental planning to theories of polity and virulent nationalistic movements.

Nature and Landscape

Author : Allen Carlson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231140401
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Landscape written by Allen Carlson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and encourages the appreciation of not just natural environments but also human-made and human-modified landscapes. Nature and Landscape is an important introduction to this rapidly growing area of aesthetic understanding and appreciation. Allen Carlson begins by tracing the development of the field's historical background, and then surveys contemporary positions on the aesthetics of nature, such as scientific cognitivism, which holds that certain kinds of scientific knowledge are necessary for a full appreciation of natural environments. Carlson next turns to environments that have been created or changed by humans and the dilemmas that are posed by the appreciation of such landscapes. He examines how to aesthetically appreciate a variety of urban and rural landscapes and concludes with a discussion of whether there is, in general, a correct way to aesthetically experience the environment.

Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface

Author : Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195345665
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting, 1825-1875, With a New Preface written by Barbara Novak Altschul Professor of Art History Barnard College and Columbia University (Emerita) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated volume, featuring more than fifty black-and-white illustrations and a beautiful eight-page color insert, Barbara Novak describes how for fifty extraordinary years, American society drew from the idea of Nature its most cherished ideals. Between 1825 and 1875, all kinds of Americans--artists, writers, scientists, as well as everyday citizens--believed that God in Nature could resolve human contradictions, and that nature itself confirmed the American destiny. Using diaries and letters of the artists as well as quotes from literary texts, journals, and periodicals, Novak illuminates the range of ideas projected onto the American landscape by painters such as Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, and Martin J. Heade, and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederich Wilhelm von Schelling. Now with a new preface, this spectacular volume captures a vast cultural panorama. It beautifully demonstrates how the idea of nature served, not only as a vehicle for artistic creation, but as its ideal form. "An impressive achievement." --Barbara Rose, The New York Times Book Review "An admirable blend of ambition, elan, and hard research. Not just an art book, it bears on some of the deepest fantasies of American culture as a whole." --Robert Hughes, Time Magazine

Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability

Author : William S. Saunders
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816653585
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability written by William S. Saunders and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity and scale of the environmental problems confronting humanity today provoke a wide range of responses, from indifference to anger to creativity. Among a growing number of architects, landscape architects, and planners, however, these problems have inspired a new vision-sustainability-to guide their practices. In Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability, a diverse group of contributors considers the concept of sustainability, both philosophically and practically. Some take a broad view of the divisions between nature and humanity, exploring the incomprehensible scale of human intervention in the natural world, the relationship between how we feel about nature and what we do about it, and the commodification of the natural world. Other essays focus on sustainable design practices: sustainability's roots in the American conservation tradition, its utility as a framework for future design practice, and the necessity of moving beyond demonstration projects into the mainstream. Together, these essays suggest that the gap between the promise and reality of sustainable design, although significant, can be bridged through diligence and practice. Contributors: D. Michelle Addington, Yale U; John Beardsley, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Albert Borgmann, U of Montana, Missoula; Peter Buchanan; Peter Del Tredici, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Robert France, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Susannah Hagan, U of East London; Kristina Hill, U of Virginia; Catherine Howett, U of Georgia; Niall Kirkwood, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Lucy R. Lippard; Bill McKibbin; Michael Pollan; Rossana Vaccarino, Vaccarino Associates, St. Thomas. William S. Saunders is editor of Harvard Design Magazine and assistant dean for external relations at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is editor of five previous Harvard Design Magazine Readers published by the University of Minnesota Press. Robert L. Thayer Jr. is emeritus professor of landscape architecture and founder of the landscape architecture program at the University of California, Davis.

Architecture and Nature

Author : Sarah Bonnemaison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134455380
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Nature written by Sarah Bonnemaison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award! The word 'nature' comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate. But nature and nation share more than a common root, they share a common history where one term has been used to define the other. In the United States, the relationship between nation and nature has been central to its colonial and post-colonial history, from the idea of the noble savage to the myth of the frontier. Narrated, painted and filmed, American landscapes have been central to the construction of a national identity. Architecture and Nature presents an in-depth study of how changing ideas of what nature is and what it means for the country have been represented in buildings and landscapes over the past century.

Beauty of the Wild

Author : Darrel Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952620287
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Beauty of the Wild written by Darrel Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison shares six decades of experience as a teacher and a designer of nature-inspired landscapes. In native plant gardens at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, New York Botanical Garden, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, as well as at the Storm King Art Center, Morrison's ever-evolving compositions were designed to reintroduce ecological diversity, natural processes, and naturally occurring patterns--the "beauty of the wild"--into the landscape.

Essays on Nature and Landscape

Author : Susan Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820326351
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Nature and Landscape written by Susan Fenimore Cooper and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), though often overshadowed by her celebrity father, James Fenimore Cooper, has recently become recognized as both a pioneer of American nature writing and an early advocate for ecological sustainability. Editors Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson have assembled here a collection of ten pieces by Cooper that represent her most accomplished nature writing and the fullest articulation of her environmental principles. With one exception, these essays have not been available in print since their original appearance in Cooper's lifetime. A portrait of her thoughts on nature and how we should live and think in relation to it, this collection both contextualizes Cooper's magnum opus, Rural Hours (1850), and demonstrates how she perceived her work as a nature writer. Frequently her essays are models of how to catch and keep the interest of a reader when writing about plants, animals, and our relationship to the physical environment. By lamenting the decline of bird populations, original forests, and overall biodiversity, she champions preservation and invokes a collective environmental conscience that would not begin to awaken until the end of her life and century. The selections include independent essays, miscellaneous introductions and prefaces, and the first three installments from Cooper's work of literary ornithology, "Otsego Leaves," arguably her most mature and fully realized contribution to American environmental writing. In addition to a foreword by John Elder, one of the nation's leading environmental educators, an introduction analyzes each essay in various cultural contexts. Brief but handy textual notes supplement the essays. Perfect for nature-writing aficionados, environmental historians, and environmental activists, this collection will radically expand Cooper's importance to the history of American environmental thought.

Political Landscape

Author : Martin Warnke
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232349
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Political Landscape written by Martin Warnke and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know what "the political landscape" is, and politicians and journalists never tire of referring to it. But in this ingenious and original book, Martin Warnke takes that well-worn metaphor literally and uses it to reveal just how politicized the real landscape of continental Europe has been for centuries. The author finds his evidence of humanity's intervention in nature in the form of monuments and milestones, gardens, roads and border crossings, in landscape paintings and maps – even, in fact, in the anthropomorphic interpretations once given to formations of hills and rocks. The Political Landscape is underpinned with a fascinating array of examples and illustrations, many of which will be new even to experts in the art of landscape and related disciplines.

So Glorious a Landscape

Author : Chris J. Magoc
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461666279
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book So Glorious a Landscape written by Chris J. Magoc and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture surveys the vast and interdisciplinary subject of American natural and environmental studies. It examines the literary landscape that has inspired a local, regional, and national sense of place; explores the dynamic meaning and significance of nature across time, place, culture, and gender; and looks at the essence and history of environmental change. The first all-encompassing introductory survey of environ-mental history and cultural studies, this volume provides students and scholars with carefully chosen selections from major essayists, naturalists, preachers, geographers,novelists, scientists, and historians whose works have shaped the fields of literary ecology and environmental history. The essays trace the changing American landscape and ideas about nature from the seventeenth century to the present. By analyzing a range of material, So Glorious a Landscape provides a fresh perspective on what nature is in American life, what forces have shaped its profound place and changing definition, and what the work of environmental historians tells about the relationship of nature, culture, and power in America. So Glorious a Landscape is an excellent resource for courses in American studies, environmental history, and American culture.

At Home

Author : The Images Publishing Group
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781864708448
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book At Home written by The Images Publishing Group and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Offers dozens of modern architecturally designed homes integrated beautifully in the natural landscape, such as bushland, forests, hills or mountains- Provides richly illustrated pages filled with homes that display high-end contemporary design and an architectural passion for an organic integration with natural context and climate- Includes innovative architectural designs from across the globe, illustrating how design complements nature and climateThis book is a treatise on how to reconnect people with nature through contemporary architecture and design. At Home is about finding solace within the landscape in the bluffs, mountains, hills, woodlands, forests, bushland reserves or hinterlands without eschewing the mode of luxury living associated with sophisticated design elegance and innovative architectural features. Showcasing dozens of new, innovative architectural styles and interiors, these captivating and beautifully designed homes have taken indoor/outdoor living to a whole new level, blending architecture seamlessly into the surrounding vistas without resorting to architectural cliché. Each design documents the importance of place, engages context with climate, and offers residents with spaces that cater to different modes of family living, all the while being integrated organically within spectacularly dramatic yet serene settings.