Composition Composition is critical to making great shots that capture  emotion you wish to communicate. In Composition: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Laurie Excell with John Batdorff,  David Brommer, Rick Rickman, and Steve Simon do an outstanding job of communicating effective composition.

What’s that Flying Phenomona Flitting By? America is blessed with diverse ranges of habitat, and a plethora of bird species take advantage of our country’s bounty. Lucky for us, we can experience and identify the flash and splash, song and silhouette of our winged wonders using Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s (HMH) Peterson Field Guide to Birds.

Springtime is Flower Time! Think of spring, and inevitably you think of flowers.  Flowers pop with vivid hues and colors.  They come in all different shapes and sizes.  And how do you know what you’re looking at, or photographing?  And what’s the story behind each flower? Let David Brandenburg’s National Wildlife Federation: Field Guide to [...]

A Place of Your Own So you want to have your own piece of the net, you want to control how your photos are displayed, and maybe even sell your photos.  RC Concepcion in Get Your Photography On The Web provides an easy to follow guide to help photographers,  beginners or pros, quickly deploy a [...]

It’s the Cat’s Meow! What just zoomed by? Did you get a picture? It had a red crest on the head, a long beak, and flashing white under wings? Can’t quite figure this bird out? No problem, just open up your Peterson Birds of North America app on either the iPod, iPhone or iPad. You’ll [...]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 is a teacher friendly, student friendly and parent friendly editing software program for digital photos. Hands-on, easy to understand and oh so creative, it offers a wide variety of tools and techniques to make your pictures shine!