Looking for the Summer

Rating:
Summary: ...simply wonderful.
Review: Are you tired of looking at the nature photographs that al look the same? Obviously so was Brandenburg. This book is such a welcome departure from the rules and guidelines that plague photographers, and leave us with bland, rehashed photos that lack any sort of spark. It is simply wonderful.

Rating:
Summary: More enchanting photography. More mediocre text.
Review: I am perhaps one of Jim Brandenburg the Photographer's biggest fans. I am not such a fan, however, of Jim Brandenburg the author. But I will say this, his writing abilities have improved drastically from Brother Wolf, and he is after all, a photographer first and foremost.

The photography in Looking for the Summer has received a lot of flack because it does not, admittedly, conform to many of the norms we've come to expect in rank-and-file nature photography. When this set of photographs was published in National Geographic, the letters to the editors in the next edition railed on them for being overly saturated, too simplistic, and technically flawed.

Yet this refreshing break from overly trite and boring nature photography is exactly what I find so welcoming and enjoyable. Simply put, his photos are stunning! As a week-end shutter hack I find myself staring at every page in this, and all of his other works, and then trying to emulate his works in my own photography.

Keep it up, Jim! Can't wait for what ever you're next project might be.





Rating:
Summary: Disappointing!!!
Review: Jim Brandenburg is clearly a highly talented photographer. Unfortunately, you would never know it from this book. There are several images which are interesting, but for the most part the images in this book are either compositionally uninteresting, technically flawed, or both. Without the Brandenburg name, this would never have been published.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing!!!
Review: Jim Brandenburg is clearly a highly talented photographer. Unfortunately, you would never know it from this book. There are several images which are interesting, but for the most part the images in this book are either compositionally uninteresting, technically flawed, or both. Without the Brandenburg name, this would never have been published.

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful...
Review: Looking for the Summer is more poetic and impressionistic than Brandenburg's previous books. It's beautiful, colorful and a wonderful sequel to Chased by the Light.

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful...
Review: Looking for the Summer is more poetic and impressionistic than Brandenburg's previous books. It's beautiful, colorful and a wonderful sequel to Chased by the Light.