Focus on Flowers: Discovering and Photographing Beauty in Gardens and Wild Places

Nicely produced and intelligently written, this book contains all the information you'll ever need to know about taking pictures of flowers. It includes 255 color photographs by Allen Rokach, photographer at the New York Botanical Garden since 1978, as well as solutions to many of the technical problems presented by flower photography. Rokach and writer Anne Millman touch upon nearly every aspect of flower photography, including detailed segments on lighting, equipment, exposure, sharpness, composition, and close-ups.