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Grand Landscapes of Canada -- Les Grands Paysages du Canada | 
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| Author: J. A. Kraulis
Publisher: Firefly Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 943309
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Bilingual
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.3
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 11.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1554070368
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.100222
EAN: 9781554070367
ASIN: 1554070368
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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Product Description
A superb portfolio of pictures by one of Canada's greatest photographers. Canada's landscape is like no other. Its sheer diversity is staggering: vast prairies and forests, impressive coastlines, majestic inland lakes and rivers, and urban parklands. Each season adds its own dimension of beauty. As much as it reveals the geography of a country, landscape photography also documents the random events, whether fleeting or grand, that capture the essence of a country. This magnificent collection spans 20 years of the work of Canada's renowned landscape photographer, J.A. Kraulis: a flash of lightning exploding across a summer sky; a sudden winter storm descending on an otherwise tranquil coastal bay; the surface of a lake, caught in a moment of stillness, mirroring the world around it. These 200 handsome color photographs record the vast and beautiful Canadian landscape. They tell the tale not only of a country, but also of the photographer's inspiring relationship with it. (20051016)
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Great pictures, but.... January 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Janis Kraulis has been making his mark as a Canadian landscape photographer for a long time. I have books involving him dating back to the 1970s, when he edited the brilliant (and long out of print) The Art of Canadian Nature Photography.
No doubt about it, he has a wonderful eye and knows how to string sentences together. He also knows how to assemble pictures in an interesting way, often putting scenes thousands of kilometres apart together on facing pages by virtue of some common element such as a rock pattern or colour of flower.
Sadly, however, he has fallen into the trap of excessive filter use advocated by the likes of fellow Canucks Daryl Benson and Darwin Wiggett. They constantly over-use blue-yellow polarizers, enhancers and graduated density filters (which darken parts of pictures) and Kraulis seems firmly in that camp.
This means you are constantly staring at photos that seem glaringly unrealistic -- with light foregrounds and ridiculously dark backgrounds/horizons, plus garishly hued rocks and water. After awhile, it becomes tiresome.
And why so little information in the photo captions? Sure, this book is aimed mostly at the non-photographer who wants something nice on the coffee table, but since there was usually tons of space on each page for captions, why not add something for photo enthusiasts, such as why the picture works on an artistic level or when/how he achieved the final result?
In the end, you'll probably like Grand Landscapes of Canada. But something more real and natural and appealing to photographers would have been better
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