Nature Photography books from Companion Press
Beyond the Golden Gate
California’s North Coast
Photography by Larry Ulrich
Essay by Roy Parvin
Preface by Donna Bacon Ulrich
North of the Golden Gate Bridge the legendary coastal route, Highway 1, veers left from suburbia to enter the unique world of California's North Coast. Ulrich's brilliant, evocative photos and Parvin's lively text inspires both visitors and residents.
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Photography Larry Ulrich
Interpretive text by Susan Lamb
In the final book of his trilogy of bestselling coffee-table photo essays, Ulrich presents both the shy and the showy flora of the diverse habitats of Oregon, Washington and western Idaho. Ranging from coastal rainforest through mountains and river canyons to deserts, glorious color images portray biodiversity in ways that everyone can appreciate.
Wild Birds of California
David Lukas
California is a great place for wild birds and the people who enjoy watching them! Over 600 bird species inhabit, migrate, or visit here. This lavishly photographed volume features usual and unusual birds in their wildland homes throughout California.
Exploring The Eastern Sierra
California & Nevada
Mark A. Schlenz, Photography by Dennis Flaherty
The book begins with a geologic and geographic overview of the Sierra, then follows a south-to-north itinerary from Mt. Whitney and Sierra's east slope through Independence, Bishop, Mammoth Lakes, Mono Lake, Lake Tahoe, Virginia City, Death Valley, and Yosemite.
Wildflowers of the Plateau and Canyon Country
Photography Larry Ulrich
Interpretive text by Susan Lamb
This photographic essay presents Ulrich's stunning color images of wildflowers in the American Southwest, from the depths of the Grand Canyon to the high mesas of western Colorado.
Mono Lake:
Mirror of Imagination
Dennis Flaherty
Introductory Essay by Mark A. Schlenz
This fine photographic essay portrays in colorful grandeur eastern California 's unique inland sea, now protected as a National Scenic Area, and the gorgeous Sierra landscape that overlooks it.
Death Valley National Park
A Photographic Journey
Fred and Randi Hirschmann
In this eye-catching book, 106 color photographs celebrate much loved desert scenes as well as newly protected areas in this historic California park, now the largest national park in the United States outside of Alaska.
America's Vanishing Landscapes
The Western States
Photography and text by Wayne Williams
Preface by Andy Lipkis, founder of Tree People
Heroic images in vivid color depict some of the greatest of the West's natural landscapes: mountains, rivers, deserts, forests, lakes and coastlines. Williams has spent the last ten years exploring and shooting wilderness landscapes.
In Denali
A Photographic Essay of Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska
Text & Photographs by Kim Heacox
Gorgeous book explores the grand landscapes, wildlife, plant life and history of Alaska's vast Denali National Park and Preserve, an area of six million acres.
Wildflowers of California
Photography Larry Ulrich
Interpretive text by Susan Lamb
Ulrich presents a gorgeous array of images, from desert to seashore,interior valley to mountain meadow, showing the delicate beauty of Golden State wildflowers in their myriad forms. The interpretive text by Susan Lamb brings us inside the natural world, and gives a lucid and fascinating lesson in botany.
Alaska Light
Ideas and Images from a Northern Land
Essays & Photographs by Kim Heacox
Gorgeous book paints a mosaic of Alaska's diverse landscapes and wildlife, from the Arctic Slope to the Inside Passage, from glaciers and grizzlies to sled dogs and caribou herds.
Wildflowers of California Postcard Book
Larry Ulrich
Twenty gorgeous images from the award-winning book on ready-to-send postcards, plus a short introductory essay.
Death Valley—Postcard Book
Fred and Randi Hirschmann
Twenty striking images of this diverse park by some of the West's best nature photographers, plus a short introductory essay.
Mono Lake:
Postcard Book
Dennis Flaherty
Twenty great images by Dennis Flaherty of this mysterious inland sea, plus a short introductory essay.
Wildflowers of the Plateau and Canyon Country
Postcard Book
Photography Larry Ulrich
A companion souvenir to Wildflowers of the Plateau and Canyon Country. Twenty spectacular images from the book, plus a short introductory essay.
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Twenty Postcards
Larry Ulrich
A companion souvenir to the larger book.Twenty stunning images plus a short introductory essay.
Eastern Sierra
Twenty Postcards
Dennis Flaherty
Twenty powerful color images of the remarkable landscape on the steep side of one of the world 's great mountain ranges.
