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Wildlife photography book

I came across a review on the wildlife photography book, Success With Wildlife Photography. The reviewer says “this is a good book for someone just about to get into wildlife photography”. Lots of tips about photography, equipment and marketing too. I thought you’d enjoy it. View the review.

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Beautiful nature photos

Treehugger.com has beautiful nature photos in the slide show “Reader’s Backyard Nature Photos: Frogs, Fawns, and More”. My favorite is image #16 of the Wallaby with her baby and the moving story behind it. These photos are a MUST SEE. Trust me on this one.

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Nature photography prints: Wildlife prints from our children’s books

If you are looking for unique wildlife photography prints, some of the wildlife prints from our best selling children’s books are now available. To view select prints, visit our “In The Woods” gallery (from the online gallery at CarlSams.com), and our online gallery for the book Stranger in the Woods (from the online gallery at StrangerInTheWoods.com). [...]

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Wildlife photography tips

This article offering wildlife photography tips is right on. Tip #1: Study your camera and the technical details associated with it well. A photographer without a sound knowledge of his equipment is like a guitarist, who doesn’t know how to tune his guitar. No matter how skilled he is in playing, the sound will still [...]

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Wildlife photographer of the week

Wildlife photographer John Gavin is the Boston.com Photographer of the Week. In his article in The Boston Globe online at Boston.com, he says he discovered his passion for photography after being in a serious car accident.  He spent 7 months in a hospital. While in the hospital he ordered a Pentax camera. To get started, he shot [...]

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Wildlife photographer makes fun of failed attempts

I came across a funny blog post about wildlife photography. It reminded me of my own failed attempts. The author writes “It’s not that the birds don’t like our garden, or that the treats we put out for them aren’t to their taste. No. They just don’t like having their photographs taken…But when I go out there [...]

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Ann Arbor Street Art Fair: Come see us!

  Come see Carl at the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair. The fair, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, runs July 15 through July 18. Come visit us at booth #D307 on Main Street between E. Liberty and E. Huron Streets in the northwest section of the fair. View map (PDF) The Original Fair was named [...]

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Photos of nature can be breathtaking

Photos of nature are greatly enhanced with changing weather and lighting. The article “Nature, seen through a new lens in San Diego” in the Art’s section of the Los Angeles Times states that nature can be a temperamental subject to capture in still photography. The Best of Nature Photography Show, an international juried competition, is [...]

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Gallery prints from our children’s picture books

Our new “In The Woods” gallery prints Web page is now live. Prints are from our New York Time’s best-selling ”In the Woods” series of children’s picture books : Stranger in the Woods, Lost in the Woods, and First Snow in the Woods. We’ve also published three board books for toddlers: Winter Friends, Find My Friends, and [...]

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Wildlife photographers: Choosing a lens for wildlife photography

Attention wildlife photographers! If you’re in the market for a lens for wildlife photography, the blog post “Choosing a lens to suit wildlife photography” by Pascal Parent at “Only in South Africa” may be helpful. Parent says in the post that he opted to invest in the Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM, and this led [...]

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