PhotoBooks Vermont

Six distinct seasons are depicted in stunning color photographs by Vermont's premiere photographer. For more than thirty years Richard Brown has been taking photographs of his adopted home state of Vermont. Now he brings together his favorite images in this ode to the land and its people, to share his own deeply personal vision of this beloved and picturesque state. Richard Brown's Vermont has six seasons, not four. The familiar glory of fall foliage, when the hills are giddy with color, gives way to the austere "Off-Season," that brief November transition before the snow flies, when the bones of the landscape are revealed in fallow fields and the bare limbs of trees. In deepest winter the ubiquity of snow renders even more vivid those few colors that remain—the cobalt blue of a shadow on snow, the warm red of a barn. "Mud and Maple" celebrates both the convivial season of flowing sap and the perennial indignities of impassable dirt roads. In the spring lambs frolic in greened-up pastures, and all-too-fleeting summer months bring a burst of industry to gardens and fields before September's frost. Brown's soulful images create a distinctive photographic portrait of Vermont's landscape. He chronicles with great affection the people who still work the land, and without sentiment celebrates a rapidly disappearing way of life. 120 color photographs.

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From mayfly to moose and from mountainside to roadside, a celebration of the natural world in one of America's premier outdoor destinations.

Unlike its overdeveloped neighbors to the south, east, and west, Vermont remains very much a state of nature. Tourists come from around the world in pursuit of snow, trout streams, fall colors, deer, moose, mountains, and forest. David Middleton, a nationally recognized outdoor photogra-pher, captures this natural world from familiar haunts like the top of Mount Killington to the seldom seen wilds of the fabled Northeast Kingdom. Black bears, bobcats, fishers, redpolls, snow geese, and snapping turtles all populate the landscape—be it a summer stand of trees draped in verdant green or the flaming red foliage of a hillside in autumn—a world where the forest floor is carpeted with wild trillium and elegant lady's slippers. The Nature of Vermont brings this stunningly beautiful landscape to your living room, from panoramic overlooks to the finest details of an owl's feathers. This year-long journal of words and photographs takes the reader through this natural world as the color of life bursts forth in the spring and goes to rest with the last display of spectacular fall foliage. 150 color photographs.

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Neither advocacy nor indictment of deer hunting, Deer Camp documents the rituals and traditions of hunting season in Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom, a landscape increasingly threatened by development and changing social values. John Miller's text and photographs capture the culture of hunting and its place in country life. The cabins, the hunters and their families, and the artifacts and memorabilia of hunting are evocatively chronicled.

The sixty black-and-white photographs record with unsentimental honesty the multigenerational ritual of deer camp, showing the camps themselves (ranging from converted school buses with stovepipes sticking out of the roofs to comfortable second homes in the woods), the pickups and jalopies, hand-drawn maps and hand-carved furniture, polished snowshoes, inlaid rifles, smoking camp stoves, and snowy woodpiles. Miller's text details--among much else--the methodology of the hunt, the lore of the woods, and the basics of camp life and ritual. Especially moving are the oral histories, which reveal the complicated richness of the hunter's world: its hardness, its camaraderie, its passion, and its underlying respect and reverence for the woods and the deer.

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