Quiet Light Publishing Blog » Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of Am http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog Richard Mack on Publishing, Photography & Fine Art Printing Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:25:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Great Smoky Mountain National Park book wins Best Nature Photography Book 2010 http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2010/10/26/278/ http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2010/10/26/278/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:36:44 +0000 Richard Mack http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/?p=278 Great Smoky Mountains National Park book

This morning USA Book News announced the Best Books 2010 Awards and our book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes, Photographs by Richard Mack was honored as the Gold Medal Winner for Best Book: Nature Photography 2010. 

USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of THE “BEST BOOKS 2010” AWARDS (BBA) on October 26, 2010. Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 140 categories covering print and audio books. Awards were presented for titles published in 2010 and late 2009.

Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, Penguin/Putnum, Rodale, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Moody Publishers, American Cancer Society, Sourcebooks & hundreds of independent houses contributed to the Best Books Awards competition.

Quiet Light Publishing is honored to have had Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American, Photographs by Richard Mack, selected as the Best Nature Photography Book for 2010. It is always an honor when others recognize your work, especially when it spans 30 years of photography. To be named the Best Nature Photography book for the year is incredibly humbling.

Peace, Richard

]]> http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2010/10/26/278/feed/ 0 The Smoky Mountains Book Arrives! http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/07/17/the-smoky-mountains-book-arrives/ http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/07/17/the-smoky-mountains-book-arrives/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:06:37 +0000 Richard Mack http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/07/17/the-smoky-mountains-book-arrives/

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This afternoon we received the shipment of books from the printer, CS Graphics, of our new book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes. We will start to ship out the pre-ordered books on Monday. Shipments to those stores which have ordered the books will also begin on Monday. Seems like it has been a long time in coming and now it is here! Pretty exciting when you launch a new book and a lot of work. We’ll be having a big release party in late August or early September – watch this space for information or email me and ask to be put on our list. You can purchase the book on our website at www.quietlightpublishing.com!

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Have a fun weekend folks!

Peace,

Richard 

]]> http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/07/17/the-smoky-mountains-book-arrives/feed/ 0 Quiet Light Publishing eNewsletter! http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/05/14/quiet-light-publishing-enewsletter/ http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/05/14/quiet-light-publishing-enewsletter/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 22:51:47 +0000 Richard Mack http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/05/14/quiet-light-publishing-enewsletter/ Quiet Light Publishing is pleased to announce the release of photographer Richard Mack’s second book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes. With 220 pages and 246 spectacular images in both color and Black & White this book is also destined to win major book awards. The foreword is written by the park’s interpreter Steve Kemp. 

Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes

Great Smoky MountainsNational Park: Thirty Years of American LandscapesISBN#: 978-0-9753954-2-4 Size: 11” x 13” with 220 Pages and 246 images in Color and Black & White  4.75 lbs. in weight.Publisher’s Price: $60.00 Release Date: July 20, 2009 This book is due for release in mid-July but you can pre order at a reduced rate using the discount code for readers of our blog or newsletter! Discount Code: QB01. Discount is applied at checkout. You can also Preview the Book! http://www.quietlightpublishing.com/media/pdf/GSMNP%20Book.pdf  

We also discuss new offerings from Quiet Light Gallery and new Workshops for nature and photography lovers in this issue. To view the full articles please use the link: http://www.quietlightpublishing.com/newsletters/200905.php  

Or visit us on the web at www.quietlightpublishing.com  Look forward to hearing from you! 

Richard Mack

Quiet Light Publishing

]]> http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/05/14/quiet-light-publishing-enewsletter/feed/ 0 The Presses are Rolling! http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/04/27/the-presses-are-rolling/ http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/04/27/the-presses-are-rolling/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:13:20 +0000 Richard Mack http://quietlightpublishing.com/blog/2009/04/27/the-presses-are-rolling/ Today is Monday April 27, 2009 and in Singapore at CS Graphics the presses are rolling with my next book, Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty years of American Landscapes! There are many points in a process as involved as the making of a book where you stop and say to yourself – “This is pretty cool!” This is one of them. It is very cool to know that half way around the world there are people who are dedicated to making your book the best are working away on it, as they have for the past few months just to get to this point – ink on paper. So it is, underway.

Another of these moments came a few weeks ago when for the first time I wrapped the dust jacket around the dummy book they sent – a book that is the exact size and makeup of my finished book but without any printing. It is one thing to see the dust jacket on the screen as you put it all together, another to see it printed out, but the best so far is that first time you wrap the jacket around the book and put it down on a table. Voila! Your book – kind of.

So, while they toil away in Singapore printing the 220 pages and 246 images for this monograph of Great Smoky Mountains

National Park maybe it is time you took advantage of our preorder pricing! You can view the book using the links below or purchase a copy for delivery in July at the advanced sales price!

And as an additional incentive if you use the Discount Coupon Code: QB01 when promted at check out we’ll give you an additional 10% off!

Preview the book: GSMNP Book

Purchase an Advanced Copy: Quiet Light Publishing

Cheers,

Richard

Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes

ISBN: 978-0-9753954-2-4

220 pages, 245 images, 11×13”

Quiet Light Publishing

Publisher’s Price: $60.00

Pre-Order Price: $45.00 (until June 1, 2009)

Four years ago today we released my first book, The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes. As soon as you come out with your first book, the question is…so what’s your next project and when will it come out. Well, now. Kind of. You can now pre-order our second book, Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes. I have been training my lens on the park for just over thirty years so it made sense that my next book would on the park.

I began my quest to become a landscape photographer while on my first trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park back in 1974 with my future wife, Kathy. I was not then as intense about photography as I am now. I was just beginning my journey and in all honesty wanted to find the closest national park to my home in Illinois. I chose the Smokies and the love affair began – between me and the park and between my wife and I. Since then I have visited many of our national parks, but I continue to be drawn back to the beauty, diversity, and complexity of the Smokies. It is, after all, a park that offers everything: historic buildings and living history, magnificent streams and waterfalls, a variety of old-growth and new-growth forests, large fields and coves with abundant wildlife, and of course, those stunning vistas into “smoke” filled valleys.

Over thirty years, many things have changed, and many others have stayed the same. The Fraser firs on Clingmans Dome have almost been destroyed by the Balsam Wooly Adelgid, yet younger trees now crowd the understory. Portions of the Alum Cave trail were inundated by a landslide during a thunderstorm. Cades Cove is no longer farmed. Logging operations cleared much of what is today parkland. Yet to the inexperienced eye, the places where lumber companies clear-cut mountainsides in the late 1800s and early 1900s are barely perceptible, a testament to both Mother Nature’s ability to regenerate and remove the scars of mankind, and to mankind itself for having the foresight to preserve this remarkable landscape. In some cases, entire species have disappeared from the area, like the buffalo and wolves, or even from the earth entirely as is the case with the passenger pigeon. But other species have been reintroduced. Elk have been returned to Cataloochee and have migrated into other areas of the park. The synchronized fireflies have been around forever, but only in the last 15 years have they become a popular treat if you are lucky enough to catch their 10-day show in early summer.

Some of these changes are reflected in this book, whether a black and white image of an old barn taken in 1976, or one of my last shots of a sunrise as seen from Newfound Gap in November 2008. I hope you will enjoy my vision of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is a jewel in our national park system. My wish is that you will come to love, as I do, the details of the leaves, the rush of water in the streams, the colors of the landscape as it changes from season to season.  

You can preview the book using the link: GSMNP Book Preview 

Our release date is July 1, 2009, but pre-orders start today, at the reduced price for readers of this blog of $45.00. So order now, and put the words BLOG in the comment area to insure your discounted price. We will not charge your card until we ship your order. Readers of this blog are the first to be able to order! GSMNP Book Pre-Order 

Thanks! Hope you’ll enjoy this new release! Stay tuned for more as we move forward! 

Richard Mack

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