Seeing Trees by Nancy Hugh and photography by Robert Llewellyn. fits into two genres. It's a fine handbook for identifying trees by their twigs and buds - provided you bring these specimens home as the book is oversized in order to best display the photographs. And photography is the second genre into which the book fits nicely. The photographs are gorgeous.
To see the photos go to Amazon's entry for the book and scroll. Most of the book is there. The photo on the cover gives you some idea what to expect. The book description at Amazon explains the unearthly beauty of these unusual photographs thus: Using software developed for work with microscopes, Robert Llewellyn created incredibly sharp close-up photographs of the tree detail by stitching together 8 to 45 images of each subject—each shot at a different focal point.
A section called "Ten Trees: Intimate Views" zooms in on the American Beech, Ginkgo, Red Maple, Southern Magnolia, Tulip Poplar, White Oak, White Pine, American Sycamore, Black Walnut and Eastern Red Cedar. The photos are so entrancing it's easy to overlook the text, which is entertaining and informative.
2012 No 21
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