Today we learned my book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Fifty Years of American Landscapes has been named a winner in two categories in the 26th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. We won the Silver Award in both the Nature Book and Art Book categories!
I am humbled and proud to have won the Silver Awards with so many entries from around the world. You always hope people like your work, and it is gratifying to receive such recognition.
The Foreword INDIES recognize the best books published in 2023 from independent and university presses, as well as self-published authors.
With over 2,400 entries submitted across 55 categories, this year’s competition showcased the remarkable talent and diversity of the independent publishing industry. Foreword’s dedicated editors carefully selected approximately 12 finalists per genre, which were then presented to individual librarians and booksellers entrusted with the challenging task of determining the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention winners.
Quiet Light Publishing is pleased to announce the release of our three beautiful coffee table books as eBooks! The Lewis & Clark Trail: American Landscapes and Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Thirty Years of American Landscapes by photographer Richard Mack along with Their Love of Music by photographer Stephen Azzato are now online in our shop. While we still believe there is nothing better than holding a real book in your hands and turning the pages to appreciate the images and delve into the book in a very personal way we understand many people like to have everything at their finger tips. The eBooks are Adobe PDF’s so you will need the free Acrobat Reader to read them on any platform.
The multiple award
winning first edition of The Lewis & Clark TrailAMERICAN
LANDSCAPES which chronicle’s the landscape along the trail of The
Corp’s of Discovery. This book has won over a dozen awards, including two
Silver Medals in the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards for Best Coffee Table Book
and Best Nature Book. Photographer Richard Mack has brought the vistas and
majesty of the Lewis & Clark Trail to life in a magnificent set of 248
color photographs. Richard spent two years visiting key locations along the
Lewis & Clark Trail by plane, auto, and on foot, shooting specific
locations at the same time of year as was originally experienced. The result is
an extraordinary set of images capturing the incredible diversity of the
American landscape in different seasons. ISBN: 978-0-9753954-0-0 Hardbound
11″ x 13 ” edition, 256 pages with 248 color images.
In Richard’s book Great Smoky Mountains National Park –
Thirty Years of American Landscapes he trained his camera on the beauty in
Great Smoky Mountains National Park photographer Richard Mack has assembled his
images into a collection of exquisite images. This book showcases the park’s
various sections and includes text by the park interpreter about each area.
These images also trace some of the changes in the park which have occurred
over the last thirty years. This is a great addition to anyone’s library, but
especially this year – the 75th Anniversary of the park. Winner of multiple
awards including the 2011 International Book Award for Photography – Nature!
“The ultimate photo book of Great Smoky Mountains
National Park. If you love the Smokies, you need this book on your coffee
table. It’s the ultimate photo tribute to the park. It’s all here: landscapes,
flora, fauna, four seasons of glorious nature.”, Great Smoky Mountains
National Park website.
In Their Love of Music photographer Steve Azzato has
captured the essence of the creative spirit in the faces and words of the
musicians themselves. Featuring portraits of 117 artists, the book takes a
slightly different approach to music photography than typically seen. “The
beauty of this project for me was being able to sit with a huge range of
musicians and explore what drew them to their art”, says Azzato. “I was able to
hear it in their voices and record it visually in their images”. In the simple
quiet of a green room, without the crowds or bandmates or tour managers,
Azzato’s photographs transcend the chaos of the stage and the intensity of the
studio to reveal the inner spirit that drives each of his subjects. Winner
of the International Book Award for Photography – People. ISBN:
978-0-9753954-3-1 11x 13″, 252
Pages, 117 artists images
Need to get some late shopping done? Well how about ordering a signed copy of one of our books – great gifts! You can choose from my first book The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes which chronicles the journey of the Corps of Discovery like you were with them. The images were done at the same time of year the expedition past by these places and words for the journals of Merriweather Lewis and William Clark alongside many of the images describing what you are seeing.
You can also purchase my second book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes which looks at parts of our most visited National Park from a perspective those in the park have said is the best they have seen.
And Stephen Azzato’s book Their Love of Music. With over 100 musician portraits done in the quiet of the green rooms before a show and asked one simple question, “Why do you love music?”. Their answers accompany their portraits in this award winning book!
Each book can also be purchased with another one of our offerings for a special price! Prints, Note Cards and Folio’s of small fine art prints are also available! Fine Art Prints from many National Parks, the Great Lakes Project, The Lewis & Clark Trail, Portugal, France, Italy and Argentina!
Does your dad like history, the outdoors, our national parks, music, photography? Then we have the perfect gift! Quiet Light Publishing specializes in fine photography books. Choose anyone of our books and you’ll receive 25% off the price!
We have a book The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes for those interested in history and nature. Richard Mack travelled the trail at the same time of year as the expedition did in order to bring to life the images of the trail as the expedition would have seen them in the 1800’s. This book has won 7 book awards including a Silver Medal in the International Photography Awards for Best Nature Book.
Want to give him a travel idea? How about a trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park? Richard’s second book was a collection of images taken over his thirty years of travelling to the park. Our most visited national park, this book has also won a half dozen awards including a Gold Medal from the Association of Partners for Public Lands 2011,Non-Partner Published Works. And just last week was recognized by the International Book Awards with yet another Gold Medal for Best Nature Photography Book. Why wouldn’t dad love this?
And if that weren’t enough we have Steve Azzato’s book, Their Love of Music, which captures 117 different musicians in an intimate portrait before they took to the stage with each portrait paired with one simple quote on why the artist loves playing night after night. This is a must have for any lover of photography or music or both! And yes this book to has won a few awards recently with the International Book Awards bestowing a Gold Medal for Best Photography Book – People. It also just last week won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Cover Design.
Already have these three books? No problem, check out our website for prints, note cards and posters. Surely you can find something deserving for your father! Don’t wait to long though as we ship FedEx Ground and it may take a few days…we do offer overnight shipping but as you can guess that is more you’ll have to spend on dad! Go ahead click on the shopping cart above and enjoy shopping!
The Eric Hoffer Book Awards committee has announced the finalists list for the 2010 Grand Prize Award for Independent Publishing. Quiet Light Publishing’s book Great Smokey Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes, Photographs by Richard Mack has made this short list. Two Grand Prizes are awarded annually, one for short prose and one for excellence in publishing of independent books from small publishers.
The Eric Hoffer Book Awards were established at the beginning of the 21st century as a means of opening the door to writing of significant merit. It honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing as well as the independent spirit of small publisher’s.
We are honored to be named to the short list. The final winners will be named at Book Expo in New York City on May 24-25. They are also covered in the US Review of Books. So now we wait for the final judging!
