Your Favorite Books?

I'll second the votes for:

All of John Shaw's Books
Artie's Art of Bird Photography
All of Freeman Patterson's Books

And I just finished Moose Peterson's Guide to Wildlife Photography. I especially Like the sections on getting close to your subject.

And finally the book that got me started as a serious photographer: Charles Campbell's Backpacker's Photography Handbook

First Light: A landscape photographers Art by English LAndscape photographer Jo Cornish. Wonderful wonderful landscapes

books about photography:

why people photograph and beauty in photography, both by robert adams - wonderful insights from a modern landscape master.

on photography by susan sontag - venerable and been around for a while, but it gets inside your head.

books of photography:

cape light and tuscany - inside the light by joel meyerowitz - exquisite landscape photography.

polaroids by walker evans - the last work of a 20th century photo giant. photography so pure and unaffected, it brought a tear to my eye.

flowers by irving penn - beautifully reproduced photographs that are so real you don't even need smell-o-rama.

full moon by michael light -an incredible collection of lunar landscapes from the apollo missions that could not be more dramatic even if they launched ansel adams into space.

http://www.adirondacklight.net/