Reddit mentions: The best travel photography books

You have a great idea! Can't dispute the beauty of the Colorado mountains. If you have never done it and don't have the gear, I think wilderness backpacking might be a stretch. Also, it is best to have a partner. You can rent some gear from REI, you might want to check with them on what is available. You can absolutely tailor your adventure to your experience and desires. I would recommend Crested Butte as a town for your center point. You could get a condo or hotel there, but I would recommend car camping outside of town on some of the back roads. In the summer, I think you could find some pretty nice sites accessible with a rental car off of Kebler Pass, Gothic Rd. or Ohio Pass. From there you can access plenty of world class hiking such as West Maroon Pass, Scarp Ridge, Rustler Gulch etc. You can also make some side trips to Lake City, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Ouray, Telluride etc. Crested Butte is also a very cool town with cool restaurants, and stuff going on in the summer. I would also highly recommend this book to help you plan your trip. Also, pick up your weed in Denver. Mountain towns do not have the selection, quality, or price. Have fun and enjoy!

Some non-food ideas:

Calvin and Hobbes books! Definitely one of the best comics created. Bill Watterson still lives in Ohio. Calvin rampages through Chagrin Falls.

Books and pictures of the Bicentennial Barns.

History on the Wright Brothers, John Glenn or Neil Armstrong

Ohio art pottery can be really nice but you can sink some serious money there. Roseville, Zanesville, Hull.


Dayton Dragons are fun too--shirts or other stuff.

I always like Amish style quilted hot pads and trivets for gifts. Pretty, small and ship well.

Of course, cardinals are beautiful! They translate well as stained glass, notecards or prints. Lot of possibilities...

Edit: remembered something else fun, depending on your relatives....Haunted Ohio. There's a series of books now and the author lives near Dayton.

His 2008 one is just magical. The music (original song made for the video), the editing, everything is just amazing about it. It just captures so much joy and makes me realize why I love traveling so much. Easily my favorite Youtube video of all time (it's also one of Youtube's founders favorite video of all time). I bought his book that details stories about some of the scenes, and display it proudly in my living room.

You can sign up on his site to be notified the next time he's filming in your area. I was bummed that the one in Denver happened right after I had moved from there (it's in the 2012 video). I even sent him an invitation to my wedding (hey, it was worth a shot). I'd love to meet him some day. Hopefully, he makes it back to Austin for one of his videos.

I completely understand where you're coming from (and I think what you're after).

I picked up this book right in the Yosemite Village Store (as I was leaving Yosemite for what I feared might be a long time). The Yosemite Grant

It's a very detailed history of the early years of the park (1864-1906) in a nice larger format book.

For other ideas, I'd browse around here are well.
Yosemite Conservancy In fact, pulling up that link just inspired me to order a copy of "They Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove", which I hadn't seen before.

If you haven't already, definitely get a copy of "The Yosemite" by John Muir. He's an incredible writer and a crazy man at times - very adventurous. There are endless variety of publications to choose from, and it's a free eBook too. All of Muir's writings are worth your time.

From another angle, I actually also found this book to be really enjoyable: Geology Underfoot in Yosemite National Park. Not for everyone, but it's a very accessible geological history, shedding light into how the landscape formed. As I hiked around the valley loop last fall it was very cool to note, as we crossed a high sort of berm that stuck out like a sore thumb, that it was in fact the terminal moraine of the glacier that carved the valley, and later acted as a damn to fill the valley, giving it its flat floor. The book gave me a better appreciation of what I was seeing within the park. (high nerd factor there though, not for everyone)

And finally, if you want to go waaaay back to some great source material, everything that is in the public domain seems to be cataloged and digitized here Yosemite Online

Enjoy!

I'm a Chicagoan myself - glad you're visiting our fair city! The Riverwalk is a great place to photograph architecture and people. Walk it later in the day, then head to The London House (Michigan & Wacker) - their rooftop bar has one of my favorite sunset views of the city.

Also, check out The Photographer's Guide to Chicago by a local guy named Chris Smith. Chris is a friend of mine, and runs a group called Out Of Chicago that does classes, conferences, etc., all around photography. His book is great.

Hope this helps!

Absolutely gorgeous! Anyone know the NASA links to the hi-res versions?

If you like these, I'd recommend Beyond by Michael Benson, an excellent collection of NASA probe images. Has a wonderful forward by Arthur C. Clarke :)

I photograph the city a lot (check my posts here on Reddit for some examples I've posted) and could go on and on about locations but it really depends on what you're into. I highly recommend my friend's e-book, "The Photographer's Guide to Chicago". It has a ton of great info on interesting locations and details about hours, restrictions, where to park, etc.

Personally I've never been able to "understand" landscapes. I mean, they're pretty but other than that it doesn't hold my attention. Theres stuff like Fay Godwin's work or Ansel Adams that can be interesting at times though, maybe I am biased since I live in the city so foraging around forests or hills for hours seems incredibly boring.








Anyways, for inspiration i've been enjoying [Moriyama's new book] (https://www.amazon.com/Daido-Moriyama-Color-Never-Again/dp/8857222268/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469195890&sr=8-1&keywords=daido+moriyama) despite it being in color.







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Imo, travel guides are boring and bittersweet unless you're actually going there soon, not to mention you can find better information online. I'd go with a book like this that captures landscape, folklore, and history of Iceland.

Are they into make up or skin care at all? Blue Lagoon is a popular Icelandic beauty brand.

Hey everybody, I am working on a media-rich e-book version of this book -

Montana's Last Best River: The Big Hole and Its People

http://www.amazon.com/Montanas-Last-Best-River-People/dp/1585743313

If anyone has any cool stories or things I could film in that area I would be very interested! send me a message! Would love to link up with some fly fishers or something and shoot some footage.

I like this on net -- it's a composite of many cool things. But the execution for each of those parts could've been done better... e.g., he's picked white fridges and set the pictures on a white background; the cropping is a bit poor in a lot of these pictures, and it would've been cooler to have a full-on "pop out" effect by drawing a simple refrigerator-esque bevel around the picture frame.

And the masterpiece of food-in-your-kitchen-voyeurism: Hungry Planet. Such an awesome book. Good photography too.

We bought a book of photographs of Cape Cod where we're getting married.

Each page has about a 1.5 each white border and there are about as many pictures as guests. We're asking each guest to pick their favorite and write us a message on that page. It'll make for a nice coffee table book, since the photos are beautiful and messages will make it even better.

A few (somewhat boring) precautions:

Get a little travel picture book (literally a book with pictures of different objects in it). If you can't communicate with the locals, you can point at the picture to get what you want.

Use a hidden wallet under your clothes for your important documents and credit cards. (Plus most of your money).

Only wear pants with zipper/button pockets. Much more secure.

Have fun!!!

Generally, if you want lodging in a well-known National Park, you have to plan at least 1/2 year ahead, if not a full year. Some parks have convenient gateway towns like Springdale for Zion and Estes Park for Rocky Mountain and they'll have a wide variety of lodging and restaurant options. Lots of the western NPs do have historic lodges - check out the Great Lodges of the NP book and/or DVD from a library to get an idea of what's available.

If you can swing September, you'll find fewer crowds, cooler temperatures, fall colors, and in places like Yellowstone or Rocky Mountain you get to hear and see elk bugle. May is also a less crowded time and weather can be a little cooler (and waterfalls in Yosemite are going full).

As already said, don't overlook national monuments like Devils Tower or Cedar Breaks or Canyon de Chelly or Craters of the Moon. State parks like Custer in SD or Baxter in ME have lots to offer too.

Some parks you group nicely together in a two week trip, if you plan - the 5 Utah parks (Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, Arches) plus the North Rim of the Grand Canyon; Glacier & Yellowstone; etc.

These photos are all from a great book called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel. The book includes itemized lists of all the food pictured with the families. It's very interesting. Would highly recommend.

if only atl didn't have a combined sewer system... would be much easier to clean up the various creeks and turn the whole system into the city's waterfront... maybe in another few generations if we make it out of the rut we're currently in. great book: http://www.amazon.com/Peachtree-Creek-Unnatural-Atlantas-Watershed/dp/0820329290

The Last Rice Planter is a novel set in the post Civil War south. It looks to have pretty strong reviews on Amazon and, as of right now, is only $4.99.

Full disclosure: my uncle wrote that book. He worked on it, as far as I know, at least the last 18 years (when I read an excerpt) and my parents said even longer. I'm pretty sure it was almost completely written on a typewriter and transcribed by my aunt. It's a little odd to see it available on Kindle.

(While I'm plugging for family: here's a photo book of the Lowcountry.)

We have this one at our coffee table: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1592231411?pc_redir=1406971552&robot_redir=1
It's a very well done then and now book, love flipping through it every now and then. The terrible towel is a good idea. Maybe a little figurine of the incline or the Cathedral of Learning would be a nice memoir.

While I'm Bristol museum today they had the book below in the gift shop. Its not a massive read but has a nice history of many of the most well known boozers scattered town.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bristol-Pubs-James-MacVeigh/dp/1445661683

I took my parents on a tour of the Cistern and my mom was so enchanted with that area she insisted on buying Buffalo Bayou's big coffee table book about the park, "From Rendering to Reality: The Story of Buffalo Bayou Park". It's actually quite well done and there's a piece in there about how Buffalo Bayou was designed with crazy flooding conditions in mind: the materials they used, the layout and design, etc. Obviously Harvey is the most extreme situation to hit the park since the renovation, but it gave me hope when I saw how high the bayou was last weekend that they have plans in place for situations like these.

A little different vein but I really enjoyed Gainseville Punk by Matt Walker.

Really opened up a world I knew little about. Well written.

This is the late 80s, not 90s, but it's a fantastic book filled with high quality aerial photos. I love looking through it because the city has changed so much since then.

A lot of the info in the album was stuff that I took note of while at the actual location; there was usually a sign that gave at least some information in English. If I wanted to know more I looked it up later. I did read these ahead of time though:

• Iceland: Land of Sagas - nonfiction - good primer to get a basic overview of the country with some really nice details here and there (some of the notes I took while reading made it into my plans later)
  
• Iceland: Second Edition (Classic Geology in Europe) - nonfiction - mostly used as a reference for really detailed geological stuff
  
• Njal's Saga - one of Iceland's sagas, you'll see sagas referenced an awful lot so I liked having a vague idea of how that is like
  
• Independent People - I didn't finish this by the time I went to Iceland, but it is a good story and perspective on the culture

i'm pretty sure the photos are plagiarized

edit: yup, these photos are from this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984074422

Credit:

Pictures and information are taken from the book "Hungry Planet: What The World Eats" by Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio

which in turns is sourced from http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Planet-What-World-Eats/dp/0984074422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278139071&sr=1-1

In any case, it's a good book that covers way more than just what the time article covered.

Here are the top 100 locations.

https://www.amazon.com/Photographers-Guide-Chicago-Locations-Photograph-ebook/dp/B00F08993Q

From a book called "Hungry Planet":

Link to buy it on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Planet-What-World-Eats/dp/0984074422

1. facebook etc is blocked, so get TOR
   
2. don't eat watermelons
   
3. don't eat anything with an english name, pointing on the card/pictures works perfect
   
4. don't eat corn in beijing!
   
5. shanghai in the summer is hot as fuck
   
6. traveling with low class train tickets works fine, but watch your stuff, its all open
   
7. get one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Wordless-Travel-Book-Pictures-Communicate/dp/0898158095
   
8. i've seen some phone shops but ony chineese brands, it also probably wont work in your network
   
9. google beijing tea scam
   
10. tsingtao beer is the best

This?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0984074422

This may give you some ideas.

http://www.amazon.com/Pittsburgh-Then-Now/dp/1592231411/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407817085&sr=1-1&keywords=pittsburgh+then+and+now+by+walter+c.+kidney

Let me recommend the actual book, which includes facts such as calorie intake, family income, and country overweight percentage. The book describes the daily life of the families, their expectations and general outlook on life.

Should also check out this book: Gainesville Punk: A History of Bands and Music

Point It

The Wordless Travel Book