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Windstone: Natural Arches, Bridges, and Other Open

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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!

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.