Garden Mosaics: 25 Step-by-step Projects for Your Outdoor Room

One of the most long-lasting and hard-wearing artforms, mosaic pieces are perfect to make the most of your outdoor space. Suitable for a tiny terrace or a large country expanse, the projects in “Garden Mosaics” show you how to decorate your outdoor space in the most charming, individual and enduring way. The extensive techniques section shows you how to choose and use the right tiles for your environment. The range of tiles on the market today is better than ever, and the book makes the most of the wealth of new materials available such as spangled tiles or inexpensive but authentic gold-leaf tiles. As you progress, you can develop your own creativity with tips on tile and colour-matching that allow you to adapt the projects to make pieces completely unique to you and your garden. All suitable for beginners, the 25 projects in the book range from simple decorative pieces, such as the enchanting, simple child’s footprints and butterfly stones to practical and sturdy weatherproof pieces, including a trompe l’oeil chequered mosaic tabletop and delightful planters that will add colour to your garden even in winter. Some projects, such as the night light, can be finished in under two hours.


Garden Mosaics: 25 Step-by-step Projects for Your Outdoor Room

Seasons of Landscape: An Inspirational and Instructive Guide in Photography

In this inspirational collection of photographs, Peter Watson demonstrates how to shoot a variety of landscapes in every season of the year, with a chapter devoted to each month. Watson debates the pros and cons of film versus digital, describes his techniques, and offers his opinion on the best cameras and equipment for landscape photography. Captions provide technical details, including, exposure, lens, shutter speed and filters for each image.


Seasons of Landscape: An Inspirational and Instructive Guide in Photography

Landscape Photography

Landscape Photography is a detailed guide to capturing outstanding images in the great outdoors, using today’s sophisticated digital SLR and compact digital cameras. From choosing the correct camera, lenses, filters, and outdoor photographic accessories to the practicalities of gauging the weather, tide times, and the optimum time of day to shoot, this comprehensive handbook discusses the theory and technicalities of exposure, composition, light, and color. You’ll learn all about getting creative with panoramas, abstracts, and using flash outdoors, with essential information on slow shutter speeds and panning. Expert advice describes the preparation and techniques for shooting in the field in a wide variety of outdoor locations-from mountains, coastlines, deserts, and jungles, to lakes, waterfalls, rivers, clouds, flowers, and trees-plus how to successfully photograph people and animals in the landscape.


Landscape Photography