Bookshelf Essentials

[AratiRao]

hi there,
at the excellent CNP meet loads of information and suggestions were exchanged. One key thing that flew around too fast for anyone to catch completely was recommended books/ reading. this thread is to enable that so we collate in one place all the book-gyaan.

I'll set the ball rolling - people please add! Where you can, please link to Flipkart and/or Amazon.

Light on the Earth
John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide
The ever enterprising Krish's amazing collection

looking forward to more...
arati

[Pramod Viswanath]

Thanks for sharing this, Arati. Some of the books that I have:

Books by : Frans Lanting's

1. Life
2. Jungles ( intending to buy )

Book by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns:

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

[krishnan v]

Freeman Paterson's - Photography and the Art of seeing

[Ganesh H Shankar]

A Shadow Falls
Lens Work - e-Book & paper

Several others.. will add as soon as possible..

[Radha]

Here's one more that Nilanjan-da recommended to me..

John Shaw's Closeups In Nature

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[Vijay Mohan Raj]

Thanks Arati for initiating this.

I will come back to this thread after a getting a hold of my probable list.

regards
VMR

[ramesh_adkoli]

Several good titles there. Few that I have found useful:

Light: Science & Magic by Fil Hunter, Steve Biver, Paul Fuqua
Creative Nature and Outdoor Photography by Brenda Tharp
The Negative by Ansel Adams

regards,
ramesh

[krishnan v]

Galen Rowell -The Inner Game of Outdoor Photography

[AratiRao]

A few of us were talking elephant stories and this book is a MUST READ:

Lord of the Grassland - Nirmal Ghosh

flipkart used to carry it, seems like not any more. Writing directly to Ghosh (above) might be the easiest way for now.

A