This luminous volume offers a rich feast of words and images depicting nature's unexpected beauty in Kansas. With a keen ecological sense, O. J. Reichman and Steve Mulligan present a breathtaking reminder of the state's remarkable natural heritage. Reflecting the marvelous alchemy of earth, wind, fire, and water enacted over countless centuries, Reichman's meditative text and Mulligan's stunning color photographs reveal a wondrously diverse state. Ranging across both widely known and unfamiliar forests and prairies, rivers and lakes, geological formations and botanical splendors, they celebrate this diversity. Featured in these pages are the sunlit bluffs of the Arikaree River, the Red Hills beneath a winter sky, the meandering Chikaskia River, Castle Rock, Pillsbury Crossing, Keyhole Arch in Monument Rocks National Landmark, Breidenthal Reserve's oak and hickory forests, sweeping waves of Big Bluestem and spring fires on Konza Prairie, Cimarron National Grasslands, the Mill Creek waterfall, Shermerhorn Cave, the wetlands of Cheyenne Bottoms, and a vast array of blooming phlox, columbine, larkspur, butterfly milkweed, dogwood, and wild rose. More than any previous work, Living Landscapes of Kansas captures the essence of a state alive with natural beauty.

Living Landscapes of Kansas

Arts & Photography

Reichman, O. J.

Mulligan, Steve

Photography & Video

University Press of Kansas

Long regarded as one of America's leading landscape photographers, Steve Mulligan here displays forty of his best and most evocative black-and-white photographs. Ranging from the Garden of the Gods in Colorado to Baja's Santa Catalina Island to the Tallgrass Prairie in Kansas to the Florida Everglades, he sees through and beyond the familiar to illuminate previously unrevealed landscapes. "Terra incognita was the term used by ancient cartographers to describe those areas of the world still unexplored, landscapes of great mystery and allure, replete with the promise of discovery. This term has always charmed me for it seems to allude to the possibilities inherent in any exploration, whether an arduous physical voyage or an intuitive mental search. I have become convinced that everything in nature-including the most familiar and mundane of subjects-is imbued with a certain degree of mystery. By searching out these skewed and esoteric visual enigmas, by skating the fine line between vision and abstraction, I have journeyed into my own terra incognita."—Steve Mulligan. "Crossing wide stylistic and geographic realms, the images of Terra Incognita exemplify state-of-the-art landscape photography. The key ingredients—unabashed and unfettered love of subject, the land, the terra, and fascination with the mysteries revealed in the careless gestures of our earth—are the common denominators of all. They depict forms and textures that I would most likely not see; they constitute, therefore, revelations."—Tom Till.

Terra Incognita

Ramble the rivers, prairies, loess hills, and many more simply beautiful places all around the Sunflower State in this four-season collection of color photography. 
Three excellent landscape photographers who admire the many beauties of Kansas have contributed to this album of 127 color photographs. Come along with Scott C. Avery, Charles Gurche, and Steve Mulligan to explore and enjoy the vibrant cycle of the seasons where East meets West in the center of the United States. Their images range from intimate close-ups to grand panoramas, each chosen to add its facet to the gem that is this Kansas land.

Kansas Simply Beautiful

Travel

Gurche, Charles

Avery, John C.

United States

Farcountry Pr

Pennsylvania has, acre for acre, the most varied scenery of all the states in the Union. Even though it accounts for scarcely one percent of the total area of the lower forty-eight states, the Keystone State includes within its borders portions almost a third of all the landform provinces in the nation. Anybody who doubts the significance of this measure of the abundance and diversity of Pennsylvania’s natural features has only to leaf through this portfolio of two hundred full-color photographs by master landscape photographer Steve Mulligan to be convinced of the open hand with which nature has endowed this state. 
Mulligan spent four years seeking out just the right places and subjects to portray natural Pennsylvania in all its diversity. Like a Mason or Dixon freed from the compulsion of the straight line, Mulligan has tirelessly trekked uphill and down dale, feeling with his feet and probing with his eye the rock-ribbed, forest-clad lineaments of "Penn’s Woods". Seeking out the most subtle and most spectacular photographic subjects in each of Pennsylvania’s varied landscapes, Mulligan has assembled for Wild &amp; Scenic Pennsylvania images from every section of every physical province in the state. 
Steve Mulligan’s photographs are systematically grouped into the twenty-three sections of Pennsylvania’s seven landscape provinces, whose picturesque charms are explained by reference to their violent origins in a lively and informative text by naturalist Robert Hutchinson. In the photographer’s introduction, Mulligan touches on the artistic and emotional springs that have sustained him on his long and revelatory trip through WILD &amp; SCENIC PENNSYLVANIA.

Wild & Scenic Pennsylvania

Hutchinson, Robert

Browntrout Pub

Traditional black and white photography has a special appeal that never goes out of style. Even in the digital age, photographers remain endlessly fascinated by its creative possibilities—and this richly illustrated guide offers them a comprehensive introduction to both the art and craft of creating fine monochrome prints. Throughout, it emphasizes ways to master the necessary camera and darkroom techniques and achieve a personal vision every time you shoot. One by one, the chapters delve into cameras and film, exposure and development, composition, printing, and grouping images to form a successful series. Author Steve Mulligan—best known for his large-format photographs of American landscapes—uses his own breathtaking photos as examples, with illuminating technical explanations of exactly how he got the shot.

Black & White Photography: A Practical Guide

Photographers Inst Pr

While some photographers have an innate genius for composing an image, it’s also a skill that anyone can learn. Acclaimed photographer Steve Mulligan reveals the ideas, techniques, and equipment that underlie good composition, with the aim of helping readers develop their own personal vision. With magnificent color and black-and-white photos illustrating his points, Mulligan discusses such key ideas as viewpoint, framing, symmetry, light, and the rule of thirds, as well as the effects of exposure, depth of field, and shutter speed. From using the computer to improve your shots to displaying your work, this book covers it all.

Understanding Composition: The Complete Photographer's Guide

Product Description 
Archaeoastronomy is a relatively new field of study that examines the astronomical knowledge of prehistoric peoples.These sophisticated sky-watchers cannily created observatories to help them understand the turning points in the year. Knowing when spring began, when to plant and harvest crops, and when winter was turning had an overwhelming significance in their lives.Steve Mulligan has applied his large-format camera skills to his most recent fifteen-year-long project in locating and photographing these prehistoric observatories in the American Southwest. During the various seasonal events of summer and winter solstice, equinox, and cross-quarters, he has captured these fantastic light displays on film and luminous silver prints.Prehistoric Suns is an unusual combination of fine art and documentation. Requiring a balance of intuition and technique, it will appeal to both aficionados of fine art photography and those enthralled by the beautiful rock art scattered across the western states. 
 About the Author 
Steve Mulligan is the author of eight books of photography. He was a featured photographer at Epcot Center and an associate editor and columnist at 
Camera & Darkroom magazine. 
Outdoor Photographer magazine named him a "Master Landscape Photographer." He lives with his family in Moab, Utah.

Prehistoric Suns: Ancient Observations in the American Southwest

Individual Artists

SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks

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