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My weirdest school volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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On picture day at Ella Mentry School, the strange new photographer wants to turn A.J. into a supermodel and the Picture Day Zombie makes an appearance.
82) Shadow-catcher
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Although he often fancied himself a detective, Jonathan must become a real sleuth when he attempts to solve a mystery while accompanying his grandfather, a Civil War veteran and traveling photographer in Maine.
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This fascinating Japanese photography book features over 140 images taken between 1853 and 1905 by the most important local and foreign photographers then working in Japan. Almost one-fourth of the images are hand colored, superb examples of a rich art form long since vanished. The Japan of this book too has disappeared, but author and compiler Terry Bennett has put together a unique portrait of the country at perhaps its most decisive turning point,...
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On 4 March 1824, thirty philanthropic gentlemen – including the abolitionist William Wilberforce and Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Manners-Sutton – met in a London pub. Here, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was born.
In the following 200 years, the RNLI has been woven into the fabric of our island nation, saving over 144,000 lives, despite some rescuers losing their own in the process. With over 100 fascinating images from Mirrorpix,...
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Mary Theresa McDonough B.A. B.Ed. OCT is a wildlife photographer who has travelled extensively throughout many wilderness area throughout the world. This time she has captured the essence of the true wilderness habitats of the animals in the African nations of Kenya and Tanzania and has noted their trusting nature with humans in her close-ups, in a country that doesn’t allow any
hunting by humans.
She has cofounded her own survival program in Canada...
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Photoshop CC 2014 es el programa de retoque fotográfico y tratamiento de imágenes por excelencia. Con este manual aprenderá a utilizar sus diferentes herramientas, filtros y funciones para mejorar el aspecto de sus fotografías digitales y para crear sorprendentes composiciones.
Con este libro:
o Aprenderá a corregir los clásicos defectos en las fotografías de fotógrafos inexpertos (sobreexposición, subexposición, desenfoques, keystoning,...
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* Reportaje fotográfico y las historias humanas que hay detrás que ilustran el pasaje mortal a Europa para numerosos refugiados y migrantes: el sufrimiento y la resistencia en todo ese periplo.
* Desde Libia y sus centros de detención, pasando por la travesía imposible por el Mediterráneo central rumbo a Europa, hasta la situación extrema de un país devastado por las tres guerras que ha sufrido desde 2011.
* Se muestran en contexto los países...
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Erleben Sie die vielseitigen Möglichkeiten Ihrer Canon EOS 1200D und lernen Sie ihre Funktionen ausführlich kennen. Anhand ansprechender Beispiele und leicht verständlicher Anleitungen zeigt Ihnen das Buch, wie Sie einfach besser fotografieren - von Anfang an, dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen wie es geht!
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* ¿Cómo se puede alcanzar y potenciar la creatividad en fotografía?
* El célebre escritor y fotógrafo Michael Freeman nos descubre el concepto del acceso (cómo acercarse al sujeto, cómo conseguir el mejor ángulo, la mejor oportunidad, la imagen perfecta) y nos muestra cómo aplicarlo en una amplia variedad de géneros fotográficos.
* A través de diversos ejemplos de algunos de los fotógrafos más reconocidos a nivel mundial, este libro...
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Considered the southern border of Europe, a territory that the far right describes as a strange and wild land, full of overcrowded cities, empty villages, exotic landscapes, exuberant raw materials, successful footballers and hordes of menacing migrants, the regions of the Sahel and North Africa share and suffer from the pernicious effects of the decline of its traditional patterns of life, ruined by accelerated imposition of modernity, capitalism,...
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In the inner west Himalayas, India lies a wonderland known as the Valley of Flowers. Included in the list of eight World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, it is spread over 33 square miles spanning altitudes of 11,000 - 21,000 feet, surrounded by 5 mountain peaks (Niligiri in North; Ghodi and Ratavan in the East; Saptasring in the South and Khunt-Khal in the West). The raging Pushpawati River crisscrosses throughout the Valley of Flowers between glaciers...
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With the invention of the digital camera, most of us have large collections of photos in our personal libraries. Some have photos in several libraries like iPhoto, Picasa, and Flickr. Amongst the hundreds of photos we have, there are many that would qualify as stock photos. The photos that we identified as stock, can be uploaded to a number of different photos stock sites.
93) Show Business
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Throughout the United States, businesses compete for the attention of buyers by presenting their products in striking, often outrageous, ways at trade shows. In Show Business, ex-trade show photographer Ron Schramm presents a collection of black-and-white photographs displaying the theatrical ways in which these products are marketed to American businesses, and to America. The images in this volume include selected exhibits and photographic editorials...
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Mire a su alrededor durante un minuto. Si fuera a hacer una fotografía que captara sus pensamientos y sentimientos sobre el lugar donde se encuentra justo en este momento, ¿de qué sería? Complicado, ¿verdad? Tomar excelentes fotografías de lugares depende de qué, cuándo y cómo. Qué tipo de lugares activa sus ideas o emociones (naturaleza, escenas industriales, lugares con un significado histórico), cuándo le gusta fotografiarlos (pronto...
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Photographer Dominic Greyer has spent the last twenty years roaming the British landscape in search of the country's most unusual placenames. He has an eye for quirky, rude and downright ridiculous name signs, and has photographed them all. But this is not merely a book of silly placenames—Dominic's exquisite, atmospheric photography, featuring the landscapes in which the signs sit, makes the images really special, and this book into a beautiful...
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This one-stop practical guide will show you how to make the most of your digital photos. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout. Over three billion digital photos are sitting on hard discs in the UK alone - yet the potential they contain remains largely unfulfilled, and many are in danger of being lost forever if a computer crashes. This is the next step for digital photographers: they...
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See As No Other is a collection of photographs from the Blind With Camera project started by Partho Bhowmick in Mumbai in 2006. Over the years, hundreds of visually impaired have been trained in photography, and their work, exhibited in India and abroad. Photography by the visually impaired sets them on an insightful journey that connects with the self in many ways, giving them dignity, a new voice and hope. The narratives provided by the visually...
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Botticelli is a painter not of facts, but of ideas, and his pictures are not so much a representation of certain objects as a pattern of forms. Nor is his colouring rich and lifelike, it is subordinated to form, and often rather a tinting than actual colour. In fact, he was interested in the abstract possibilities of his art rather than in the concrete. For example, his compositions, as has just been said, are a pattern of forms, his figures do not...
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As they set off for Madagascar in 2003, photographer Max Pam and writer Stephen Muecke adopted as their guiding principle the idea of contingency-central to which is the conscious embrace of risk and chance. In doing so, they established a new aesthetic in which image and text are inextricably linked to the notion of possibility. This stunning collection of photos and essays is the result of their vision, collectively illustrating the beauty and wisdom...