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by Donna Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Created especially for the Australian customer!
Reduce your environmental footprint in the garden with this practical guide
With all the talk about the health of the planet, you've probably heard about sustainability. Now you can apply these principles in your own backyard, whether that's...
by Mary Moss-Sprague, Greg Aspinall
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Focusing on containers, trellises, and raised beds, this book shows how everyone can garden, including those with physical limitations like arthritis or location limitations like apartment-dwellers without backyards.
Knowing where our food comes from is a huge issue; food safety and costs seem...
Shaping Light
Use Light Modifiers to Create Amazing Studio and Location Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Whether shooting portraits or products, skillful lighting can be the difference between a bland snapshot and a stunning, well-defined image. Capturing the ideal photograph requires many technical factors to work in tandem, the most fundamental of which is lighting. While we may take it for granted that...
How to Store Your Garden Produce
The Key to Self-Sufficiency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
This modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce enables you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The easy-to-use reference section provides storage and preservation techniques for the majority of plant produce commonly grown in gardens and allotments. Storing your garden produce...
Grow a Little Fruit Tree
Simple Pruning Techniques for Small-Space, Easy-Harvest Fruit Trees
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Grow your own apples, figs, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Ann Ralph shows you how to cultivate small yet abundant fruit trees using a variety of specialized pruning techniques. With dozens of simple and effective strategies for keeping an ordinary fruit...
by Alan Titchmarsh
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Deals with the basic skills that every gardener needs to know and understand. Think about what you're trying to achieve, whether it be formative shaping of the plant, maintenance, renewal or rejuvenation. Look at the best tools available for the job and the different techniques to use.
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by Eric Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Inexpensive consumer drones that offer ease of flight and high-quality photography and videography have exploded on the market recently, creating what can only be described as drone mania amongst a diverse range of potential users. Because camera-carrying drones still really only exist on the edge...
by Steve Rutherford, Steve Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This book, “The Beginners Guide to Wildlife Photography” is a part of the Beginners Guide to Photography Book Series, and will take you through a journey to discover how to master your camera, use all the settings with confidence and capture amazing wildlife photographs;
* The unknown SECRET...
Photographing Big Bend National Park
A Friendly Guide to Great Images
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
With its combination of desert and mountain landscapes, the dramatic canyons of the Rio Grande, ancient pictographs, and remnants of pioneer ranch life, Big Bend National Park presents a wealth of subjects to the photographic eye. Add early morning and late evening sunlight, summer thunderstorms,...
The Art of Practicing
A Guide to Making Music from the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
This landmark book enlightens amateur and professional musicians about a way of practicing that transforms a sometimes frustrating, monotonous, and overly strenuous labor into an exhilarating and rewarding experience. Acclaimed pianist and teacher Madeline Bruser combines physiological and meditative...
Camera Clues
A Handbook for Photographic Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
In Camera Clues, Joe Nickell shares his methods of identifying and dating old photos and demonstrates how to distinguish originals from copies and fakes. Particularly intriguing are his discussions of camera tricks, darkroom manipulations, retouching techniques, and uses of computer technology to...
Infrared Photography
Artistic Techniques for Digital Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
With the introduction of digital photography, unprecedented numbers of people are flocking to the art form, trying their hand at creating effective photographs of people, landscapes, still lifes, and other subjects. As the ranks of photographers swell, it becomes more and more difficult to achieve a...
by Hugo Benson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
So you got a camera for Christmas or your birthday. You take it out of the box all excited, take out the batteries and gather everyone around for a family portrait. Then when everyone is ready you snap the photo. Sounds normal right? Well when you go back and look at the picture your mom’s...
by Clinton Kay
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A short and succinct fact packed user manual, designed to be easily read and understood so as to enable photographers to get out and about and capturing stunning macro images. Not a technical volume and not in-depth with regard to the science and methodology behind how your camera works. Reading this...