Celebrated landscape photographer David Muench turns his keen photographic eye to the mystery of the sculpted earth in WINDSTONE: NATURAL ARCHES, BRIDGES, AND OTHER OPENINGS. These spectacular photographs of natural arches, land bridges, windows, sea stacks, caves, and sea arches represent a master photographer at the top of his game. David Muench beautifully captures the play of form and light in these magnificent creations of wind, water, and stone. From the rich, red rock of the Colorado Plateau and Kentucky's dramatic Red River Gorge to the remarkable rock arches and caves of the American coastline, experience these amazing natural formations as never before. A fascinating and deeply personal essay by Ruth Rudner illuminates the significance of the arch in natural history, folklore, Native cultures, and architecture.
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Muench has been photographing America for more than 30 years.
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I was given this book as a gift from a photographer from Germany whom we met while exploring the southwest and it is one of my prized possessions. If you have not experienced some of the places in this book, you will be pulled from your heartstrings to do so. The photos and the text are superb! A great gift for soemon special, like yourself. Enjoy and get out there and explore. It is an amazing world!
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Bamboozling the Public with a large format camera & Inflated reputation,
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I bought this book as a gift and later bought one for myself. I regret it. David Muench has made millions selling coffee-table format photo books to the public. Jackson Pollack has done the same with his paintings. But a lot of the critical aclaim is not justified. All of Muench's photos of arches are colorful and bright, but most lack creativity - they are just the same photos anyone could take - except he uses a large format camera that results in picture books that makes us "OOO!" and "AAGGHH!" Sometimes the photos are downright deceptive, such as the close-up of (innaccessible) Lamanite Arch taken with a superlong telephot lens, or illegally taken such as the one of Kolob Arch where he clearly walked on fragile brush where the rangers say it is illegal to walk. A lot of the photos he includes are neither arches nor bridges. Instead they are gaps in tree trunks, arch-shaped loops in roots, temporary holes in snow and ice, etc. Now he is getting creative but they really are now trivial at best and irrelevant at worst.
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The forms of rock we can crawl into, stand under, take shelter in, see through invite us in. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sea arch, arch form, ice window, gorge area, sea stacks, natural bridge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arches National Park, Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, Tunnel Island, Canyonlands National Park, New Mexico, Sand Dune Arch, Storm Castle, Kachina Bridge, Mesa Arch, Navajo Arch, Olympic National Park, Point of Arches, Red River Gorge, Cape Flattery, Devils Garden, Entrada Sandstone, Frame Arch, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Olympic Peninsula, Owachomo Bridge, Partition Arch, Quinault Reservation, Three Arches Cape New!
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The forms of rock we can crawl into, stand under, take shelter in, see through invite us in. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sea arch, arch form, ice window, gorge area, sea stacks, natural bridge Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arches National Park, Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, Tunnel Island, Canyonlands National Park, New Mexico, Sand Dune Arch, Storm Castle, Kachina Bridge, Mesa Arch, Navajo Arch, Olympic National Park, Point of Arches, Red River Gorge, Cape Flattery, Devils Garden, Entrada Sandstone, Frame Arch, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Olympic Peninsula, Owachomo Bridge, Partition Arch, Quinault Reservation, Three Arches Cape New!
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- Hiking The Escalante by Rudi Lambrechts on page 56, and Back Matter
- Hiking the Big South Fork by Brenda G. Deaver in Back Matter
- Death Valley: The Story Behind the Scenery by Bill Clark in Back Matter
- Canyon Country Arches and Bridges (Canyon Country Series) by F. A. Barnes in Back Matter
- The Red River by D.M. Thomas in Back Matter
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