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Rick Sammon's Travel and Nature Photography | 
 enlarge | Author: Rick Sammon
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 43379
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0393326691
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.93
EAN: 9780393326697
ASIN: 0393326691
Publication Date: May 15, 2006
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Condition: brand new...never read...still in shrink-wrap...I ship daily in bubble wrap/envelopes...ready to ship
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Product Description
Go on location around the globe to learn the techniques that professional photographers use to make great photographs.
Whether traveling with family or friends, for pleasure or for business, more of us tote cameras along than ever before. Rick Sammon guides us through dozens of different shooting situations from action shots to portraits, from aerials to zoos, from low light to bright light, from landscape to cityscape, from close-up to panorama, from silhouettes to sense of depth.
The book features how-to tips from a photographer who has traveled to over fifty countries, from photographing seals under the ice in Siberia's Lake Baikal to monarch butterflies on Mexican mountaintops. Sammon's thematically organized excursions take the reader to Vietnam, Kampuchea, Guatemala, India, Alaska, Singapore, Maine, Texas, New York City, Las Vegas, Botswana, the Caribbean, and the American Southwest, among many other locations. 591 color illustrations.
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 Beautiful photography and simple, easy to follow guide August 18, 2008
I love this book. I've read 2 of the books by Scott Kelby (Digital Photography and Digital Photography 2) and he recommended this book. Well, I had the chance to thumb through the book at a local photography exhibit and couldn't put it down. I love the simple guidelines mentioned, the beautiful photography, and the examples he gives to drive home his points. It had the same easy flow that I loved in Scott's books....with the emphasis on travel and nature photography that I was looking for. I've referred back to this book several times to brush up on different subject matter. This one will definitely stay in my reference arsenal.
See the world through Mr. Sammon's eyes April 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not only a wonderful teacher, but also a real old fashioned adventurer who likes to see everything with his own eyes. I'm greatful to Mr. Sammon for letting me see what he has seen with the help of this top quality book. Excelent explanations, lot of things I would have never thought about, and, most of all, some very very good photos.
 Not that good July 18, 2007
I have to agree with the negative reviews of this book. I've read through the "Captive Animals" lesson, and I don't want to read any more: the lessons aren't particularly helpful. The lack of shooting info for the sample pictures is disappointing. The Photoshop tips seem pointless unless you already know a LOT about Photoshop: even then, Photoshopers probably wouldn't get much out of them. The advice mentioned in other reviews (wear a hat, protect your camera from the elements) seems silly in a book like this.
This book as well as others by the author are shrink wrapped in the bookstore: apparently it's to prevent potential buyers from previewing it and deciding to look elsewhere.
 You will learn a lot about the author.. June 5, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just recently read "The Digital Photography Book" by Scott Kelby and picked up this book by Sammon based on the recommendation from Kelby. However, I would not recommend this book even to the most basic beginner. Although the book does contain a few helpful hints you will have to sort through the authors stories all the locations he has been, where he is currently in the world while writing a particular segment, etc. If you are looking for a book with basic information and lots of pictures with captions of where it was taken and what equipment (not basic by any means) he used to compose the shot this book is for you.
 Money very poorly spent May 28, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Personally I love photography, I consider myself a reasonably competent amateur/family/Travel photographer and I understand my digital SLR's settings quite well.
However, I'm always learning and it's fantastic to understand the thought process that leads professional photographers to obtain striking images. As a regular global traveller with both my work and as a tourist, I was under the impression that Rick would provide me with a fresh and magic insight into travel photography that has been eluding me.
Unfortunately, instead of photographers key tips for travel photography, I received a dull, egotistical and very thinly spread pre-agreed-book-size-filing drivel, consisting of mostly useless travel tips along the lines of: "when travelling never drink the tap water"... what never Rick? Never ever? So Canada, USA, Europe, Australia, etc poor water? only in Ricks town is the water suitable it seems.
"Wear a hat" wow thanks Rick, my photo's are better now.
"Don't wear bright colours on safari", and on and on.
There are some average and above average photo's in here (none with any real useful descriptions), but then again you have probably taken some pretty good photos yourself in the past, and if you did it for a living you would have time to take a lot more.
There are so many good entry and mid level photography tip books on the market by authors/photographers who really know their stuff and can move your photography forward, this really isn't one of them.
Rick, people want a travel/nature photography book because they also travel or photograph nature and want photo tips, not because they are in awe of you as a "photographer" and want to hear your dull camp fire travel tales.
Rick Sammon, you might be the nicest guy on the planet for all I know, but I feel totally cheated, I have never read such a poor photo tip book and I want my money back, unfortunately I have the aching suspicion you have spent it already whilst collating information for another book of drivel.
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