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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....

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Mike Williams, is a hobbyist photographer, sometimes art show participant, and works as the head librarian of the Central Library in downtown Indianapolis. A passionate technology explorer and early adopter his first digital camera was the Chinon ES-3000 in the mid 1990s. He and his wife Debbie enjoy traveling with their cameras as much as they can and hope to someday attend a Luminous Landscape workshop.
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