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William Neill’s Yosemite – App and ebook review

Posted on August 4, 2011, 11:30 am, by QT Luong, under Books.
William Neill‘s exquisite portfolio of Yosemite photographs, “Yosemite: The Promise of Wildness” became my favorite Yosemite picture book upon publication in 1994, one year after my arrival in California. It has remained so until today (even though I have my own) to the point that the spine has begun to separate. There are many scenes […]
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Spectacular Yosemite book published by Universe

Posted on April 21, 2011, 12:15 am, by QT Luong, under Announcements, Books.
Since Yosemite is one of the most famous and photographed natural sites in the world, you’d think that there are plenty of Yosemite pictorial books. Surprisingly, this is not the case. As far as I know, there are less than a dozen of books which showcase photography and feature mainly Yosemite as their subject. Some […]
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Three instructional books by Michael Frye

Posted on January 18, 2011, 10:25 pm, by QT Luong, under Books.
I had first noticed Michael Frye (see his photographs here) for his pioneering light painting nature photographs. I then greatly appreciated his excellent book The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite (2000). The only thing I wished was that it been available a decade earlier. Priced at a bargain $9.95, the book, published by the Yosemite Association, […]
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Book: “The Printed Picture”, by Richard Benson

Posted on September 15, 2009, 1:41 pm, by QT Luong, under Books.
I have seen many of my images reproduced on a variety of mass media (editorial publishers usually send a copy), sometimes in a somewhat unsatisfactory way. I understood that the limitation of reproductions are due to the problem of having to render continuous varying tones with discrete dots of inks, and that the primary mass […]
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