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Title: Flawed book
Review: The photographs in this book are terrific. Obviously Ward is a gifted photographer. But he (or the publisher) commit the unpardonable sin of not identifying the locations of most of the images. This omission is most disappointing. I recognize certain images as having come from Zion National Park and other locations in the American Southwest, but why should the reader be left guessing? Compounding the sin is a writing style that appears to be trying to be helpful and inciteful but which in fact is devoid of any real content. So, for example, under a stunning photo of a slot canyon, quite possibly Antelope Canyon in Arizona, we find this drivel: "If an image is abstract or ambiguous, the feelings and meanings we get from this are not all expressible in words." Certainly he was not able to express in words anything interesting or useful here.
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