(Part 2) Best nature & wildlife photography books according to redditors

great question! robert is an awesome photographer but he actually considers himself more of an author. he's had dozens of photography books published but his recent remembering africa is probably the best you'll get (for now). however i think it's more about his tales living in africa, and covers his friends/acquaintances stories of their experiences in africa. i haven't talked to him for awhile but maybe i can get some more awesome stories from him!

You can get the 2018 one on amazon here

Dogs and their people

A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow.

Cold Storage by John Straley.

You might like John Krakauer's Into the Wild. Though Alaskans don't have the same romantic feelings about Chris McCandless as most of the rest of the US; we mostly regard him as an idiot.

A Kodiak Bear Mauling by R. Keith Rogan.



And don't overlook The Call of the Wild by Jack London.

ALSO -- I totally lied! My absolutely favorite "Kishu" book is "Japanese Dogs" by Michiko Chiba! It has a great little write up on the Kishu that I particularly enjoy. I wanted to scan it in when I got it, but I haven't...

Cat Paws https://www.amazon.com/dp/4756250815/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_2Qc6BbMM0R9XR

Sorry, I know that I should not read into this at all. But my first thought was.....

What are the names of those books!? Kind of like when Brit posts on IG with all the Book titles readable, which also happens in the OA at the bookstore in Grass Valley where you can see all the environmental books behind Karim, like the original, Silent Spring.

What I read here are yes, you guessed it, books on how to save the planet:

• Anthropocene
  
• The End of Ice
  
• Slime
  
• Whole Earth Field Guide
  
• There is No Planet B (maybe, hard to read)
  
• KRS written on the glass...
  
  Sorry, I just have a hard time believing Zal leaves anything to chance. He is always looking for the right shot, so I think his shots are exactly what he wants to show for whatever reason, and yes, not likely connected to the OA.

Sadly the Yosemite book is out of print, but you can still find used copies on Amazon [Yosemite & The Eastern Sierra]https://www.amazon.com/dp/1932183248/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_-aNZzb07JK6KJ
My book Photographing California: v.1-North has two chapters on shooting in Yosemite.

My favorite educational book on photography is probably "The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression" by Bruce Barnbaum.

My favorite book on portraiture is "50 Portraits" by Gregory Heisler and for landscapes it's "Treasured Lands" by Q.T. Luong.

All of these have a big focus on film photography.

Another good set is Ansel Adams trilogy, The Camera, The Negative and The Print, which you can get used on Amazon for about $20 for all three books. However, they focus primarily on large format cameras, black and white negatives, and darkroom printing, so unless you're doing specifically that, I'd go with The Art of Photography above.

If he enjoys reading at all, he might like this book about wolves: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Wolves-Lessons-Sawtooth-Pack-ebook/dp/B071HKMB2N/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=wolves&qid=1557781976&s=gateway&sr=8-4 Amazon has a lot of other books on wolves as well. A few sweatshirts with wolves on them too, or maybe a fleece blanket? Maybe a keychain https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Calm-Love-Wolves-Keychain/dp/B00LOXIJP0/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=wolves&qid=1557782650&s=automotive&sr=1-10 or a license plate frame https://www.amazon.com/Makoroni-WOLVES-Chrome-License-Holder/dp/B079XZLT6T/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=wolves&qid=1557782650&s=automotive&sr=1-5


There's GoT dragon egg candles https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Sculpted-Dragon-Candles/dp/B07D91ZFHW/ref=sr_1_16?keywords=game+of+thrones&qid=1557782784&s=gateway&sr=8-16 GoT themed Monopoly https://www.amazon.com/Monopoly-Game-Thrones-Board-Adults/dp/B07K968Q1C/ref=sr_1_18?keywords=game+of+thrones&qid=1557782784&s=gateway&sr=8-18 Regardless of favorite house, I don't think anyone can resist Ghost or Drogon https://www.amazon.com/Funko-Thrones-Drogon-Vinyl-Figure/dp/B00GXO47JM/ref=sr_1_57_sspa?keywords=game+of+thrones&qid=1557782933&rnid=2941120011&s=apparel&sr=1-57-spons&psc=1


https://www.amazon.com/Funko-Thrones-Ghost-Vinyl-Figure/dp/B00GXOK37C/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?keywords=game+of+thrones&pd_rd_i=B00GXOK37C&pd_rd_r=8bd83557-8300-43d9-b4fc-aab11530b492&pd_rd_w=XUxKN&pd_rd_wg=kcevh&pf_rd_p=a6d018ad-f20b-46c9-8920-433972c7d9b7&pf_rd_r=GT8X51RAQ3C125M5MWJS&qid=1557782933&rnid=2941120011&s=apparel
Or maybe a shirt with a GoT quote on it. Like "That's what I do. I drink and I know things."


If you search "whiskey accessories" on Amazon, there are a number of different whiskey stone gift sets that come up.

here's 201 spots: https://www.amazon.com/Photographing-World-Guide-Beautiful-Places-ebook/dp/B00NDEAZIW

Disclaimer: I never read this book

In regards to your request for an inspirational landscape photo book I would recommend checking out anything form Ansel Adams of course, but also Tim Ernst. Ernst is a landscape guy out of Arkansas, my home state, and has some pretty amazing work. Arkansas Autumn is one of my personal favorites from him.

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I recommend this one:

https://smile.amazon.com/Wolves-2018-Firefly-Books/dp/1770858903/

This is so sweet of you. :) If you feel so inclined, I'd love to have this from my Amazon wishlist here!

Thank you for the lovely offer!

I ordered it from Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dawn-Dusk-Mastering-Landscape-Photography/dp/1781453063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536522996&sr=8-1&keywords=from+dawn+to+dusk+mastering+the+light+in+landscape+photography).

My guess is it hasn't been released in your country yet?

Whoa! The video form of this book.

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Calendar

there i did it for you :P

Fruit by Stuppy and Kesseler is packed full of gorgeous scanning electron micrographs (and other pictures too) and a lot of very detailed but very readable information. I can not reccomend it highly enough. Seeds and Pollen are also very good. I have not read it (just found it now, going straight on my wishlist) but The Bizzare and Incredible World of Plants, also by Stuppy is almost certainly excellent.

It's a bit technical and dry, but Plant Form, by Adrian Bell is one of my favorite reference books of all time. The information is fascinating, and the diagrams are gorgeous. There's a free online copy available (legal, I think) if you would like to have a look, but I would highly recomend a physical copy, and it's pretty cheap as far as reference books go. Flip through the section on Tree Architecture starting at page 296 for a sample of how cool it is. Read and understand that section and you will be amazed at the things you will start noticing about plants around you.

For plant ID, I can not reccomend Botany in a Day highly enough for a quite comprehensive tutorial in how to recognize plant groups (which makes it orders of magnitude easier to come up with a more specific ID). It's a classic, and is a required text for just about every field botany class.

Getting a good guide to your local plants that is based on dichotomous keys and diagrams rather than photos and learning how to use it is an absolute must if you want to move past the basics for IDing plants in your area. Without knowing your location, it's impossible to give good recomendations, but the Jepson Manual is a good example of what you should be looking for, and by far the best guide to California plants. Unfortunately these sorts of books are usually fairly pricey, and can be pretty impenetrable without practice (helps a lot if you already have a general idea of what it is), so you might hold off on getting one until a much later date. You can get older editions for cheaper, but at least in the case of Jepson's, most of the changes involve more diagrams and easier to use keys, so it might not be worth it.

There are loads of others that are slipping my mind at the moment, I will add them later if I remember.

http://www.amazon.com/Animals-MiniCube-CubeBook-Angela-Serena/dp/8854401994/