Photographing National Parks; A Guide For Scouting And Shooting America’s Most Cherished Lands - Book Review

Photographing National Parks;
A Guide For Scouting And Shooting America’s Most Cherished Lands
by Chris Nicholson

Sidelight Books $27.95 US
ISBN 978-0-9835038-2-8
As the United States celebrates the centennial of the national parks, it seems a fitting time to offer a review of something a bit different than the usual coffee-table book filled with page after page of gorgeous images. This is a relatively small paperback book; in fact, it is small enough to fit in the center console of a vehicle or in a backpack, and perhaps that is the point. The biggest section of the book, 90 pages of the 199-page-work, is devoted to a park by park rundown of the best features of each of the 59 treasures in the United States National Park system.
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Photographer and writer Chris Nicholson, a former magazine editor for ten years prior to 2004, now works independently focusing primarily on the travel and sports genres. He has fashioned this book to appeal to the travel minded photographer seeki...