Tom Mackies Landscape
Photography Secrets by Tom Mackie
There Are No Secrets
-A fascinating look at how this top photographer produces meaningful
landscape images -Covers all the different landscape genres from
beaches to forests and everything in between -A follow-up to the hugely
successful Photos with Impact Taking and making a photograph that will
have more impact than others, one that stands out from the crowd, takes
skill and time. With this stunning new guide from world-renowned
photographer Tom Mackie, readers will learn how to take the best
landscape photographs possible -- photos with impact. Rather than
concentrating on techniques, Mackie breaks down all the different sub-
genres of landscape photography and examines the challenges and
particular processes involved with each specific environment. From the
white sand beaches of Aruba, to the snow-capped peaks of the Alps, each
chapter includes Mackies best images with detailed captions that explain
how the image was achieved.

Personal Review: Tom Mackies Landscape Photography
Secrets by Tom Mackie
There are no secrets in "Tom Mackie's Landscape Photography Secrets"
except those encoded in Mackie's brilliant photographs. But for the
photographer willing to take the time to decode them, Mackie's book will
speak volumes.
The book is organized into different environments for landscape
photography, including urban, rural, coastal, mountain, forest, desert,
water and garden landscapes. The reader will find this approach
convenient for review before entering one of these environments with his
or her camera.
The pictures are spectacular. As I write, I've randomly opened the book to
a winter picture of a crystal encrusted tree, set off against an intense blue
sky, and framed by the ruins of a church. In front of the ruin and to the
right is a lone crystal encrusted weed and set further back from the subject
and to the left is a smaller encrusted tree. The ruins, the weed and the
smaller tree and several other objects continually lead the eye back to the
central subject.
Mackie loves the panoramic view that imitates the way we naturally see.
There is a photograph of a snow-covered ridge moving from near left to far
right, enclosing a green valley. And there in the left foreground is a
highland sheep, like an exclamation point.
Mackie regularly uses filters to improve his pictures. Almost every
photograph uses a polarizing filter to intensify colors. Mackie is not above
using a coral filter to capture his vision.
This book was a twice eaten meal. The first time I read it I rushed from
picture to text and back again. I must confess to being a little disappointed
by the text. Then I went back over the pictures slowly, analyzing and
comparing them. Each one was a mini-lesson in landscape photography.
Mackie's ghost writer did a competent job of writing but did not provide any
illumination for the student landscape photographer. Rather than secrets,
the prose contains a number of tips that are common in the literature but
still bear repeating. It's no secret that returning to a photographic scene
under different time and weather conditions will yield new material that will
probably be enhanced by the light of experience or that wet rocks provide
more dramatic subjects than dry ones.
I wish that Mackie had given us his own words, taking the time to shape
and polish them the same way that he does with his photographs. It's hard
work to apply writing techniques to explain your vision, but it's not
something that someone else can do well for you.

As an instructional manual, this book is aimed at advanced photographers
who are capable of analyzing the photographs and extracting lessons from
them. Others readers may just have to sit back and enjoy the glorious
landscape photographs.
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