Seeing Trees by Robert Llewellyn

Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees by Nancy R. Hugo (Author), Robert Llewellyn (Photographer). Have you ever seen the delicate flowers of a red maple? The rising leaves of a tulip poplar? The twigs of a beech? Once you take a look at a tree up shut, you start to appreciate trees in a whole new way. Seeing Timber invites readers to look at bushes with the care and sensitivity that birdwatchers watch birds. Specializing in 10 frequent trees of North America, Nancy Ross Hugo highlights the rewards of tree viewing and describes a few of the most visually fascinating leaves, flowers, fruits, buds, leaf scars, twigs, and bark of familiar trees. Utilizing software program developed for work with microscopes, Robert Llewellyn created extremely sharp close-up pictures of the tree detail by stitching together 8 to 45 photos of each topic-each shot at a unique focal point. The mix of those lavish photos with Nancy Ross Hugo’s writing makes every web page come alive with the beauty of the rising process. The end result is a beautiful journey into the life cycle of trees.

Featured bushes embrace the American Beech, Ginkgo, Purple Maple, Southern Magnolia, Tulip Poplar, White Oak, White Pine, American Sycamore, Black Walnut and Jap Red Cedar.

This is a type of books I just could not put down! Written so nicely, and such a wealth of information, issues I simply wouldn't have dreamed about trees. The pictures are beautiful, and gives macro views of particulars that I have never seen anywhere else. Truly a "keeper", and an e-book I will likely be re-studying, and will keep close at hand particularly next spring when Mom Nature starts waking timber again.

The secret (of bushes) is out! This book is an actual gift for nature lovers, sketchers and gardeners -- or anybody who's curious about trees. What makes it special is the detailed data along with amazing photography. Nancy is an excellent instructor, and these images usually are not simply close-up with a macro lens, they are produced with difficult software that reveals the simple great thing about what timber are doing, even if you think they are not doing anything. Best of all, these are the trees in our yards and neighborhoods. The e book is a superb learn through the winter months, and I am unable to wait until Spring to observe the trees with new insight. 

Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees 

Nancy R. Hugo (Author), Robert Llewellyn (Photographer)

245 pages

Timber Press (August 16, 2011)

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