This follow-up to One Hundred Flowers features gorgeous color photographs of seashells both familiar and exotic.ONE HUNDRED SEASHELLS features close-up portraits of seashells by acclaimed photographer Harold Feinstein, author of the critically acclaimed gift book One Hundred Flowers. Large in format and luxuriously produced, ONE HUNDRED SEASHELLS brings forth the intricate and subtle beauty of shells-their luminous array of colors, their every twist and turn-to an unprecedented degree. Feinstein+s images are accompanied by identifying captions and are breathtaking in their detail and appreciation of form. The book features a broad range of shells both familiar and obscure-from Abalone to Zambo+s Murex-and will appeal to nature and beach lovers, photography fans, and fine art collectors alike. Nature writer Sydney Eddison writes about her passion for collecting seashells and about their astonishing architecture in her introduction to the book. In his brief foreword, the photographer also turns to architecture to describe his passion: -I wish that Louis Kahn, the renowned architect for whom I photographed, were alive, so that I could hear his observations on these remarkable structures born of the creatures that inhabit them.+...

The Dutch had Tulip Mania in the 17th century. Victorian England had its own equivalent with "orchidelirium," an obsessive passion for orchids that has carried into the present day. Orchids remain among the most beautiful, hotly debated, and passionately collected of all flowers. ORCHIDELIRIUM presents Harold Feinstein's breathtaking pictures of orchids--dozens of different varieties and shades of them. In the tradition of the critically acclaimed gift book One Hundred Flowers (Bulfinch Press, 2000), this new volume offers images of staggering detail and subtlety. Nobody has been able to match Feinstein's mastery of flower photography, and nowhere is his remarkable talent as evident as it is in these pictures of orchids, nature's most delicate and variegated creations....

In One Hundred Butterflies, photographer Harold Feinstein showcases butterfly varieties from around the world, turning exquisite details into mesmerizing works of art. Feinstein's breathtaking photographs capture the color, vibrancy, and infinite variety of patterns that occur on the wings of these ornate insects. One hundred impeccably reproduced, oversized photographs allow viewers to appreciate the Blue Morpho of Central America, the African Birdwing, and the Asian Swallowtail at a scale and depth impossible to experience in nature. An elegantly printed deluxe gift book, it is a treasure for butterfly enthusiasts and art lovers alike.

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One Hundred Flowers features 100 exquisite colour portraits of dahlias, roses, anemones, poppies, pansies, orchids, tulips, azaleas, peonies, and other flowers in luscious detail. Each variety is coupled with a brief description, including tips about cultivation, as well as comprehensive notes about the major flower groups, all written by a distinguished botanistmaking the book as useful as it is beautiful. One Hundred Flowers also includes an introduction by popular garden author and lecturer Sydney Eddison and a critical essay by celebrated photography critic A.D. Coleman....