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 Meditations in Monochrome - Digital Edition
Photographs
by William Neill
Sadhna Press, 2009
Single Page, High Resolution PDF,
viewable with Adobe Reader.
$15.00 USD Available as Downloadable PDF.
58 pages, 52 Photographs
Also available as a hardbound deluxe edition.
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What
others are saying:
"Meditations
in Monochrome" is another welcome work from one of the country's
preeminent landscape photographers, William Neill. The images
range from macro to large landscapes, each one evocative and crafted
by a master photographer."
-Tony
Sweet
Bill is a friend
and a superb landscape photographer. He has long been
known for his wonderful and thoughtful color nature photography. He takes
a journey into classic black-and-white nature photography with his new
e-book, Meditations in Monochrome. Yet this is not a retro, back-to-Ansel
sort of photography. Meditations in Monochrome truly
does offer a new look at nature through Bill’s discerning eye
now turned to black-and-white. This is a beautiful book to go
through and use for your own meditations on nature.
-Rob
Sheppard - Photodigitary
"Bill Neill
has explored B&W as a way of expanding his creative vision.
He’s no novice to monochromes, either - his essay in the e-book
explains it all, and the pictures are exquisite! The
light is absolutely luminous in many pictures. Bill’s
monochromes prove that, under all the seduction that color provides in
a picture, there still has to be strong composition, design and
contrast for an image to work."
-Brenda
Tharp
"...Meditations
in Monochrome was a very pleasant surprise for me. Not
only does Neill carry over his excellent composition skills but
his processing and presentation, ...are simply superb. Equally
surprising to me was the experience of appreciating fine photography in
an ebook format...The ebook images are of very high resolution
and quality and, when expanded to fill a high quality screen,
look very impressive ...It is fascinating to see how
some of these images are not only converted but transformed when presented
in monochrome, taking on a completely different mood."
-Guy
Tal |
I am happy to announce
the publication of my new ebook, Meditations in Monochrome,
in digital form. Although the great Black and White masters, like Ansel
Adams and Edward Weston for 35 years, have inspired me I have pursued
color landscape photography with a passion since college. However, with
the use of Photoshop conversions to BW from the digital scanning of 4x5
film as well as digital capture, I am revisiting the roots of my photographic
inspiration.
This ebook includes an essay where I write about my early study of Black
and White, my favorite BW masters, my job at The Ansel Adams Gallery,
and the techniques I use for my conversions. I selected 52 photographs
for this digital portfolio, ranging from classic western landscapes to
intimate details of nature. Locations include the coast of New England,
the deserts of the Southwest and my backyard in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The selection covers a wide span of my career, with photographs dating
from 1982 to many recent digital captures created as recently as 2008.
The book was designed in Adobe InDesign with file sizes that have been
optimized to preserve the high-resolution images files. The quality of
the images comes to life on our modern computer monitors. I know that
this isn’t the same tactile experience of holding a book in hand,
but it’s hard to dismiss the vivid quality one can enjoy on screen.
Meditations in Monochrome - Digital Edition is delivered
as a PDF file. The book can be viewed one image at a time so you can enjoy
the full impact of the photograph. You can also set Adobe Reader to view
a book style presentation, seeing the pairings I have created.
These PDFs don't take any more time to download than an album from iTunes!
To purchase this Digital Edition book, just click on the "Buy Now"
PayPal link below for a secure and easy e-shopping transaction, using
either a PayPal account (if you have one) or a credit card if you prefer.
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Price: $15.00 USD
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Special Note: The PDFs have been created for onscreen viewing
only. Printing of the book's pages is disabled in these PDFs.
NOTE:
If paying without a PayPal account, upon completion of your transaction,
you will be directed to a "transaction details" page with a
button like the one shown below. Be sure to click this button to return
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