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.
Here is a short trailer for the new book Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Five Decades of American Landscapes which will be in our hands shortly! After 10 years of not changing anything in this best selling book in Great Smoky Mountains National Park stores I thought it would be good to change up this third printing by adding new work. I’ve added 55 new images and redesigned which images are where in the the book. The printing by ArtBookPrinting who worked with us on this version. The print quality is the best I’ve experienced! Each image has more detail than beofre, I went through each image in Lightroom/Photoshop and pulled out more details than before which the presses could now handle.
I also want to thank my designer Rich Nickel, John Manos for editing the copy and of course Steve Kemp for writing the foreword and chapter pieces. A book like this is truely a work of collaboration! Thank you to all who worked with me on this book.
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!
Whether you are in charge of corporate gift giving or just looking for that perfect gift for someone – books make a great corporate gift. In the past many of our books have been given as corporate gifts to clients. Each of our books has won numerous awards in the areas of publishing, printing and of course photography. Each book will be signed by the photographer! We have heard from past companies who have given our books as gifts that their response from their customers has been how much they loved these books and many times the words stunning, beautiful, serene and more were used to describe them.
If you are in charge of finding the perfect Corporate Gift we might just have it for you. We can also provide the entire package for you shipping to each of your customers with gift wrapped books, a card from you included in the package, whatever you require. We’ve done this in the past on an order of over 900 books. But don’t wait much longer it is time to start this process to have them delivered this holiday season!
Just today we had an order for 90 books of The Lewis & Clark Trail American Landscapes, ISBN# 9780975395400. We have also had Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes, ISBN# 9780975395424, and Their Love of Music, ISBN# 9780975395431, been given as gifts or even an award!
In addition we have in the past had our fine art prints and fine art folio’s used as gifts both for individuals and on the corporate gift giving level. Check out our prints in the shop section of Quiet Light Publishing.
You can contact me by email – just use the contact button above. Look forward to hearing from you!
