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Title: Jungles by Frans Lanting, Christine Eckstrom ISBN: 3-8228-6309-2 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Pictoral Essay: Please Save Our Jungles!
Comment: "I . . . show jungles in their natural spendor, and their animal inhabitants with the dignity they deserve." "I want to show what is at stake . . . ." "It is about the feeling of the forest rather than the science of it." -- Frans Lanting
This book contains some of the most stunning jungle photography that it has been my pleasure to see. The images contain amazing contrasts between breathtaking vistas and intricate close-ups. The contrasts continue with great use of both stillness and motion. In some cases, very fast exposures capture images that you could never see in real time with the human eye. In all these scenes, you will see incredible detail that will impress you with nature's richness.
Mr. Lanting's view is that only by knowing the jungle, can people want to save it. The whole book is designed to serve a conservationist's purpose.
You and I could spend a lifetime in the jungle and probably not see a quarter of the stunning images that are here. These photographs are the result of 20 years worth of work in trying conditions all around the world.
The photographs are grouped into four sections to emphasize elements of the jungle. "Water and Light" looks at the interplay of these elements with plant and animal life. "Color and Camouflage" looks at the contrasting needs to hide and desire to be seen for procreative purposes. "Anarchy and Order" surveys impressions of growth and movement. "Form and Evolution" shows many wonders of natural selection.
My favorites include the following:
Victoria's Crowned Pigeon
Raindrops on Leaf, Peru
Rainforest Sunrise, Borneo
Fern, Borneo
Waterfalls, Brazil
Swimming Snake, Madagascar
Palm Savannah, Brazil
Great Argus Pheasant Plumage
Nightjar, Belize
Lichen Katydid, Borneo
Scarlet Ibis Bathing
Urania Moth, Peru
Proboscis Monkey, Borneo
Mount Kinabalu, Borneo
Pitcher Plant Growth, Borneo
Chameleon, Madagascar
Tree Ferns, Australia
Butterflies on Sneaker, Peru
After you finish enjoying these marvelous color reveries of the natural world, I suggest you think about how you can help save the jungles. They offer practical benefits (like providing biological diversity, places where life-saving drugs can be found, and offsetting the carbon dioxide build-up) as well as aesthetic ones that we all should take seriously. If you can afford a donation, do that. If you can donate your time, do that. If you can help inform someone else to help, that's a wonderful thing to do as well.
Walk and act in beauty!
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic and inspirational book!
Comment: Well,when I was 14-15 years old,I was mostly interested in underwater photography and therefore,I had only a few photo books. But later,my interest for other animals too,grew much larger and therefore,I received this book as a christmas gift from my mother. It was really not a bad book,and it made me love Lanting and buy two more books with his pictures later.
It is a huge book,weighing perhaps 1,5 kilograms and with dimensions "14" x "10". It contains 150 photographs of plants and animals living in jungles around the world. Among the animals included are a series of pictures of red macaws in Peru,
dancing lemurs of Madagascar,cute little frogs in giant flowers in Borneo,incredibly strang-looking insects of various jungles,bats fishing at night in South America,and the shining eyes of caimans in Brazil.
But don`t just look at the animal pictures. The part which I find most inspiring is the jungle habitats. Especially the morning light in Borneo and Peru,and the palm savannah of Brazil. They all look humid and there are fog clouds in the dawin. Very beautifull. The australian jungles look very exciting too. Many pictures,especially of birds,are very windy to make a real impression of the movements of the animals. Lanting`s capability of capturing details of animals has never been as well presented as in this book. Especially in this huge format and double-page photos in the half of the book.
Over all,this is a fantastic book recommended to anyone interested in jungles,animals,or just in beautifull natural photography. You`ll be amazed,whoever you are.
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite photographer thanks to this book
Comment: Frans Lanting is a god among nature photographers. This book's *gorgeous* imagery takes me to another world completey, and I can only hope to follow in his genius footsteps with my humble little SLR. For anyone who loves to look at up close and personal pictures of animals or of lush jungle vegetation/rivers, or anyone who loves nature photography, I highly recommend this book. No wildlife photographer's shelf should be void of it.
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Title: Eye to Eye by Frans Lanting ISBN: 3822828300 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Forgotten Edens: Exploring the World's Wild Places by Frans Lanting, Christine K. Eckstrom, Margery G. Dunn, National Geographic Society ISBN: 0870448668 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Wildlife by Mitsuaki Iwago, Mitsuaki Awago ISBN: 0811822036 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Okavango: Africa's Last Eden by Frans Lanting, Christine Eckstrom ISBN: 0811811824 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Worlds Top Photographers and the Stories Behind Their Greatest Images: Wildlife by Terry Hope ISBN: 288046689X Publisher: Rotovision Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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