Books and maps tagged “photography”
Exploring Eastern Sierra Canyons
Bishop to Lone Pine
Sharon Giacomazzi 
This handsome and handy guide covers thirteen dramatic eastside Sierra Canyons. Starting around the spectacular forks of Bishop Canyon, Sharon divulges a wealth of hikes both popular and obscure, then continues south to include hikes near Mount Whitney.
Exploring Eastern Sierra Canyons
Sonora Pass to Pine Creek
Sharon Giacomazzi 
Discover the hidden beauty of the Eastern Sierra's wondrous canyons with Sierra native Sharon Giacomazzi as your guide. She details local history, campgrounds, resorts, where to find the best wildflower blooms, autumn color displays and waterfalls, and more
Conifers of the Pacific Slope
A Field Guide to the Conifers of California, Oregon and Washington
Michael Kauffmann 
This book provides in depth information about the 65 conifer species that occur in the three Pacific Coast states and beyond, color photos, accurate and updated range maps for each species, plus an elaborate key to aid with identification.
Wonders of the Sea, Volume Two
Marine Jewels of Southern California's Coast and Islands
Marc Shargel 
Takes readers on a visual voyage beneath the ocean to discover marine life from Santa Barbara to San Diego and offshore to all eight of the Channel Islands.
Wonders of the Sea, Volume Three
Hidden Treasures of California's Far North Coast
Marc Shargel 
Takes readers on a visual voyage beneath the ocean to discover marine life from the Oregon Border to Point Arena, near Mendocino. The book reveals an array of marine life seen by few.
Wonders of the Sea (Volume One) North Central California
Point Arena in Mendocino County to Pigeon Point in San Mateo County
Marc Shargel 
An elegant book which takes its readers on a visual voyage beneath California's coastal ocean. Takes you beneath the surface from Mendocino County, to San Mateo County, and out to the Farallons.
Conifer Country
A Natural History and Hiking Guide to 35 Conifers of the Klamath Mountain Region
Michael Kauffmann 
This superb book is an innovative natural history and hiking guide that uses conifers as a lens to explore the astounding plant diversity in the Klamath Mountains. Author/publisher Michael Kauffmann introduces readers to the magic of this little known botanical wonderland.
Yesterday's Ocean
A History of Marine Life on California's Central Coast
Marc Shargel 
Reveals the secret history of Central California's marine life through archival photos and original imagery. Shargel illustrates a little-known chronicle of human use and human impact.
The Granite Avatars of Patagonia
Text and Photographs by Tom Reed 
This exceptional book documents three seasons of adventure in the Patagonian Andes. A unique book that successfully and powerfully evokes some of the world's most spectacular and awe-inspiring sights.
Chasing the Rain
My Treasure Hunt for the World's Most Beautiful Mushrooms
Taylor F. Lockwood 
Taylor Lockwood travels the world in search of the world's most beautiful mushrooms. Through pictures, it relates the diversity of life-forms found in this very large, but still relatively little-known kingdom.
Arizona Stereographs: 1865 to 1930
Jeremy Rowe 
With more than 250 unique and important early Arizona stereographs, this book provides an overview of the history of the medium.
Arizona Real Photo Postcards
A History & Portfolio
Jeremy Rowe 
Rowe explores interesting facets of early Arizona as visually captured by professional and amateur postcard photographers. The topics include mining, labor unrest, the advent of the automobile, Indians, disasters, the Mexican Border War, and photography.
Wild Birds of California
David Lukas 
California is a great place for wild birds and the people who enjoy watching them! Over 600 bird species inhabit, migrate, or visit here. This lavishly photographed volume features usual and unusual birds in their wildland homes throughout California.
Wildflowers of the Plateau and Canyon Country
Postcard Book
Photography Larry Ulrich 
A companion souvenir to Wildflowers of the Plateau and Canyon Country. Twenty spectacular images from the book, plus a short introductory essay.
Life around Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska
Robert Armstrong and Marge Hermans 
This wildlife guide covers animals and plants found around Mendenhall Glacier. Excellent color photos and text discuss flora, fauna, and more.
Beavers by the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska
Mary Willson and Robert Armstrong 
This colorful book provides an excellent general survey of beavers. Illustrated with excellent color photos of beavers in their natural habitats.
Reefs and Rain Forests
The Natural Heritage of Malaysian Borneo
Text and Photographs by Murray S. Kaufman 
This gorgeous book presents a graceful and poignant essay about, and spectacular color photographs of, the two most important and endangered ecosystems on Earth.
Kangchenjunga
Guardian of the Eastern Himalaya
Photography by Tim Hauf; Text by Conger Beasley Jr. 
Photographer Hauf and writer Beasley blend their superb talents to capture the legendary mountain and the remote terrain of the eastern Himalaya.
Aurelius O. Carpenter
Photographer of the Mendocino Frontier
Marvin A. Schenck, Karen Holmes, and Sherrie Smith-Ferri 
Aurelius Carpenter photographed the frontier of northern California's rural Mendocino County region.He documented the lives of Pomo Indians and White settlers, the coming of the railroad, logging and shipping industries, and the agricultural endeavors and natural beauties of the area.
Moved by a Mountain
Inspiration from an Alpine View in Alaska
Photographs and text by Tom Reed
Foreword by Thomas Campbell 
This gorgeous and moving book features black and white photos of surrounding mountains and glaciers taken from the author’s cabin. Reed’s text describes finding the land and explores the question, “How and why are humans inspired by mountain views?”
The Lovely Sea View
A Study of the Marine Photographs
Published by Gustave Le Gray, 1856-1858
Ken Jacobson
This important monograph on the photographer Le Gray was published in a limited edition. Gorgeous duotones and extraordinary detective work transport the reader into the world of French and English art photography in the 1850s.
Mono Lake:
Mirror of Imagination
Dennis Flaherty
Introductory Essay by Mark A. Schlenz 
This fine photographic essay portrays in colorful grandeur eastern California 's unique inland sea, now protected as a National Scenic Area, and the gorgeous Sierra landscape that overlooks it.
In Denali
A Photographic Essay of Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska
Text & Photographs by Kim Heacox 
Gorgeous book explores the grand landscapes, wildlife, plant life and history of Alaska's vast Denali National Park and Preserve, an area of six million acres.
America's Vanishing Landscapes
The Western States
Photography and text by Wayne Williams
Preface by Andy Lipkis, founder of Tree People 
Heroic images in vivid color depict some of the greatest of the West's natural landscapes: mountains, rivers, deserts, forests, lakes and coastlines. Williams has spent the last ten years exploring and shooting wilderness landscapes.
The Mindful Hiker
On The Trail To Find The Path
Stephen Altschuler 
Altschuler believes that solitude in nature is the way to confront the tests of life by observing how even the smallest forms of life survive. The author leads readers on a walk along the trails of Point Reyes National Seashore, guiding the reader toward
Photographing Nature in Alaska
Robert H. Armstrong 
Bob Armstrong has been photographing nature in Alaska for 50 years, both professionally and for his own enjoyment. In this book he shares a broad variety of techniques he has used, strategies for capturing great nature images, hints for different types of photographs, and ways to use your resulting photos.
Jasmine Nights & Monkey Pluck
Love, Discovery and Tea
Writings Collected by Marylu Downing, Faith Morgan, & Ellen Galford 
Women writers and poets celebrate small pleasures and life’s secrets over a steaming cup of tea.
Alaska Light
Ideas and Images from a Northern Land
Essays & Photographs by Kim Heacox 
Gorgeous book paints a mosaic of Alaska's diverse landscapes and wildlife, from the Arctic Slope to the Inside Passage, from glaciers and grizzlies to sled dogs and caribou herds.
Wildflowers of the Santa Barbara Foothills
David Powdrell & Hugh Margerum 
This attractive book opens the door to the mysterious world of backyard botany and natural history with its captivating color photographs and fascinating research of the wildflowers of the Santa Barbara area.
The Savage View
Charles Savage, Pioneer Mormon Photographer
Bradley W. Richards, M.D. 
The only full length biography of an excellent western photographer who emigrated to Utah in 1855, then captured more than 50 years of western landscapes, faces,and places.
Photographers in Arizona 1850-1920
A History and Directory
Jeremy Rowe 
This book presents a 70-year visual history of a legendary land, an exciting window into one of the most colorful periods and places in our western heritage.
The Remarkable Carlo Gentile
Pioneer Italian Photographer
Cesare Marino 
This book tells the intriguing story of Buffalo Bill's first Wild West Show photographer. The Italian photographer Carlo Gentile left his native land at age 21 and traveled around the world, landing in San Francisco in the 1850s.
Dassonville
California Photographer (1879-1957)
Peter Palmquist; Researched and edited by Susan Herzig and Paul Hertzmann 
This beautiful book is the first about an influential, superb California photographer widely published in his day and the winner of numerous prizes and honors.
Mono Lake:
Postcard Book
Dennis Flaherty 
Twenty great images by Dennis Flaherty of this mysterious inland sea, plus a short introductory essay.
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Twenty Postcards
Larry Ulrich 
A companion souvenir to the larger book.Twenty stunning images plus a short introductory essay.
Butterflies of Arizona
A Photographic Guide
Bob Stewart, Priscilla Brodkin and Hank Brodkin 
Naturalist Stewart and friends follow up on his ground-breaking and highly successful Common Butterflies of California with an even more comprehensive guide to the abundant butterflies of the Southwest.
Artist‘s Choice
The Photographs of Rod Dresser
Photographs and text by Rod Dresser, Introduction by Dale Stulz 
Rod Dresser, one of Ansel Adams’ last students, is acclaimed for the remarkable quality of his prints and for his perceptive and popular workshops. This volume, includes a diverse range of landscape, architectural, still life and figure studies.
American Photographic Patents
The Daguerrotype & Wet Plate Era 1840-1880
Janice G. Schimmelman
This new book lists 810 invention patents and 22 design patents pertaining to a wide range of photographic processes, equipment and methodology.