Outdoors Library: Shutterbugging along with nature

When James Martin started writing books about photography - especially the outdoor variety - the art and science applicable to the craft were limited to imagination, know-how, film and chemical processing.

But in today's digital age, a time when everybody has an amazing amount of technology and camera equipment at the ready, there seems no end to what one can do before, during and well after capturing an image.

So it makes perfect sense that mountaineer and adventurer Martin would already be on his second edition of "Digital Photography Outdoors" (Mountaineers Books, $18.95, 208 pages).

Nothing will replace the hard work and genius of being in the right position at the right time to make an outdoor picture, but plenty has enhanced the ability to polish the stone after the fact.


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