Month: October 2010

Great Smoky Mountains National Park book wins 2010 Best Books Award

October 26, 2010
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This morning USA Book News announced the Best Books 2010 Awards and my book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes was honored as the Gold Medal Winner for Best Book: Nature Photography 2010. 

USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of THE “BEST BOOKS 2010″ AWARDS (BBA) on October 26, 2010. Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 140 categories covering print and audio books. Awards were presented for titles published in 2010 and late 2009.

Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, Penguin/Putnum, Rodale, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Moody Publishers, American Cancer Society, Sourcebooks & hundreds of independent houses contributed to the Best Books Awards competition.

Quiet Light Publishing is honored to have had Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American, Photographs by Richard Mack, selected as the Best Nature Photography Book for 2010. It is always an honor when others recognize your work, especially when it spans 30 years of photography. To be named the Best Nature Photography book for the year is incredibly humbling.

A New Gallery Show…Starbucks Tries Something New

October 7, 2010
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Diane Soubly of Have Art is trying something a little different with Starbucks stores here in the Chicago area. She has started a pilot program to bring local artists into Starbucks stores. Now I know a lot of you are thinking, well, local coffee shops have been doing that forever! Yes, they have, and now Starbucks may be joining in that local flavor and making some stores at least a little bit less corporate looking and a little more friendly and community oriented. I think it is a great idea…but then I would. My work is currently being shown at a Chicago Starbucks at 2320 Roscoe (near Damen and Roscoe) through the month of October. The work consists of prints from each of my two books, The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes and Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes. There will be an Artist Reception on October 21st from 5-8pm. I hope if you are in the Chicago area you will stop by for some coffee, some art, and maybe even buy one of my books. By the way Diane helped to curate and hang the show – that’s what she does.

If you’d like to see some of the prints or books which are on display you can check out what I offer at Quiet Light Publishing. There you can preview the books and prints!

Hope to see you on the 21st! And who knows, I bet I hang around the coffee shop occasionally just to watch folks interact with the work. See you there!

Peace,

Richard