Springtime offers a welcome change from harsh winter weather. While winter poses its own photographic challenges, spring entices the photographer by displaying an enormous variety of flowers, leaves and buds. Flowers draw photographers of every caliber like bees to its nectar. Heather Angel's "How to Photograph Flowers" outlines techniques to photograph flowers and how the techniques might be applied in the field to best utilize the photographic opportunities.

One of the most important messages in this book is that visualization is very important to a successful photograph. It is only by learning about flowers that a photographer can successfully depict flowers and highlight their features. The photographer is also encouraged to visualize the effects of different kinds of lighting on floral images. Side-by-side comparisons of such lighting variations excite the photographer to continue this study in the field. In addition, this book discusses a choice of equipment appropriate for flower photography including lenses and film. The final chapter discusses how a photographer may profit from the floral images by selling it to magazines and stock agencies or lecturing about them.

Nature photography encompasses a wide range of subjects. Separate books are devoted to in-depth discussions of various aspects of nature photography. However, very few provide an overview of this vast subject. Capturing the Landscape With your Camera is one such book that every beginning nature photographer must read in order to acquaint oneself with the different sub areas that they can explore with a suitable camera.

The book appropriately opens with a chapter on how to select a camera and equipment for landscape photography and how to use lenses of various focal length. This is followed by a treatment of the technical aspects of light and exposure and how to meter a landscape subject. Artistic aspects of landscape photography follow in the chapters that discuss composition and how to analyze suitable subjects. A landscape photographer spends most of his or her working time in the outdoors. To be successful, one has to be conscious of the practical aspects of shooting in the field, sometimes as much as being aware of the technical details. Caulfield shares her experiences in areas such as dealing with wind while photographing flowers, the importance of perseverance and being flexible in the choice of subjects while working in the field. Even relatively obscure subjects such as aerial photography is briefly discussed in this book.

Photography literally means painting with light. Indeed, light is a crucial factor that makes or breaks an image. As the title suggests, this book is all about natural lighting and how it affects a photographic image.

Zuckerman describes the variety of natural lighting, in which subjects can be photographed, such as sunrise, early morning, midday, sunset, twilight and overcast conditions and how they impart different moods to a subject. Each of these subjects is treated in its own chapter. The last two chapters discuss techniques for photographing inside buildings and under special conditions such as lightning.