The big Book Release Party is getting close – this Saturday at Studio Flo in Evanston! Looking forward to meeting people and signing books. If you’d like to see the press release use the links below and if you need to see the invitation again for the address there is a link for that to! Everyone is welcome – see you Saturday!
Cheers,
Richard
Quiet Light Publishing is pleased to announce the release of photographer Richard Mack’s second book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes. With 220 pages and 246 spectacular images in both color and Black & White this book is also destined to win major book awards. The foreword is written by the park’s interpreter Steve Kemp.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes
ISBN#: 978-0-9753954-2-4 11” x 13” 220 Pages with 246 images in Color and Black & White
4.75 lbs. in weight.
Publisher’s Price: $60.00 Release Date: July 20, 2009 This book is due for release in mid-July but you can pre order at a reduced rate using the discount code for readers of our newsletter! Discount Code: QB01. Discount is applied at checkout.
You can also Preview the Book! http://www.quietlightpublishing.com/media/pdf/GSMNP%20Book.pdf
We also discuss new offerings from Quiet Light Gallery and new Workshops for nature and photography lovers in this issue.
To view the full articles please use the link: http://www.quietlightpublishing.com/newsletters/200905.php
Or visit us on the web at www.quietlightpublishing.com
Look forward to hearing from you!
Richard Mack
Today is Monday April 27, 2009 and in
Another of these moments came a few weeks ago when for the first time I wrapped the dust jacket around the dummy book they sent – a book that is the exact size and makeup of my finished book but without any printing. It is one thing to see the dust jacket on the screen as you put it all together, another to see it printed out, but the best so far is that first time you wrap the jacket around the book and put it down on a table. Voila! Your book – kind of.
So, while they toil away in
And as an additional incentive if you use the Discount Coupon Code: MB01 when promted at check out we’ll give you an additional 10% off!
To See Inside the Book: GSMNP Book
To Purchase the Book: Quiet Light Publishing
Cheers,
Richard
ISBN: 978-0-9753954-2-4
220 pages, 245 images, 11×13”
Quiet Light Publishing
Publisher’s Price: $60.00
Pre-Order Price: $45.00 (until June 1, 2009)
Four years ago today we released my first book, The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes. As soon as you come out with your first book, the question is…so what’s your next project and when will it come out. Well, now. Kind of. You can now pre-order our second book, Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes. I have been training my lens on the park for just over thirty years so it made sense that my next book would on the park.
I began my quest to become a landscape photographer while on my first trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park back in 1974 with my future wife, Kathy. I was not then as intense about photography as I am now. I was just beginning my journey and in all honesty wanted to find the closest national park to my home in Illinois. I chose the Smokies and the love affair began – between me and the park and between my wife and I. Since then I have visited many of our national parks, but I continue to be drawn back to the beauty, diversity, and complexity of the Smokies. It is, after all, a park that offers everything: historic buildings and living history, magnificent streams and waterfalls, a variety of old-growth and new-growth forests, large fields and coves with abundant wildlife, and of course, those stunning vistas into “smoke” filled valleys.
Over thirty years, many things have changed, and many others have stayed the same. The Fraser firs on Clingmans Dome have almost been destroyed by the Balsam Wooly Adelgid, yet younger trees now crowd the understory. Portions of the Alum Cave trail were inundated by a landslide during a thunderstorm. Cades Cove is no longer farmed. Logging operations cleared much of what is today parkland. Yet to the inexperienced eye, the places where lumber companies clear-cut mountainsides in the late 1800s and early 1900s are barely perceptible, a testament to both Mother Nature’s ability to regenerate and remove the scars of mankind, and to mankind itself for having the foresight to preserve this remarkable landscape. In some cases, entire species have disappeared from the area, like the buffalo and wolves, or even from the earth entirely as is the case with the passenger pigeon. But other species have been reintroduced. Elk have been returned to Cataloochee and have migrated into other areas of the park. The synchronized fireflies have been around forever, but only in the last 15 years have they become a popular treat if you are lucky enough to catch their 10-day show in early summer.
Some of these changes are reflected in this book, whether a black and white image of an old barn taken in 1976, or one of my last shots of a sunrise as seen from Newfound Gap in November 2008. I hope you will enjoy my vision of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is a jewel in our national park system. My wish is that you will come to love, as I do, the details of the leaves, the rush of water in the streams, the colors of the landscape as it changes from season to season.
You can preview the book using the link: GSMNP Book Preview
Our release date is July 1, 2009, but pre-orders start today, at the reduced price for readers of this blog of $45.00. So order now, and put the words BLOG in the comment area to insure your discounted price. We will not charge your card until we ship your order. Readers of this blog are the first to be able to order! GSMNP Book Pre-Order
Thanks! Hope you’ll enjoy this new release! Stay tuned for more as we move forward!
Richard Mack
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