What's New? - Michael Brochstein

May 31, 2020 - Made major textual updates and added multiple images to the article I posted last week: Video Conferencing: Improving Your Home Set Up

May 31, 2020 - Added three new book recommendations; Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic by Eric Eyre, Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly, and The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart

May 24, 2020 - Added a timely article now that we are all videoconferencing from home: Video Conferencing: Improving Your Home Set Up

May 22, 2020 - Added two new book recommendations; The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory by Andrew J. Bacevich and Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America by Adam Cohen

May 2, 2020 - Added a new book recommendation; Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs: The Simple Truth About Food, Weight, and Disease by David A. Kessler

April 25, 2020 - Added two new book recommendations; Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling by Kenneth Kobre and Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

April 18, 2020 - Added a new book recommendation; Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

April 16, 2020 - Added two new book recommendations; The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert B. Reich and White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

April 12, 2020 - Added four new book recommendations; The Common Good by Robert B. Reich, Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning by Elliot Ackerman, The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet by Kristin Ohlson, and Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel by Matti Friedman

April 4, 2020 - Added a new book recommendation; Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future by Richard Davies

March 30, 2020 - Added a new book recommendation; The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt

March 28, 2020 - Added a new book recommendation; People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph E. Stiglitz

March 27, 2020 - Added a new book recommendation; Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis & Bing West

March 14, 2020 - Added two new book recommendations; The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes by Dean H. Hamer and Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

March 12, 2020 - Added a new book recommendation; Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

February 20, 2020 - Added an instructional video; Introduction to Photojournalism: Getting Started

February 12, 2020 - Added a new book recommendation; The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks

January 23, 2020 - Added three new book recommendations; Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben and The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower by Yaakov Katz & Amir Bohbot

December 29, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

December 12, 2019 - Added three new book recommendations; A Warning by Anonymous, Grahame's Guide to Chocolates around the World, and How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

November 14, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World by Avi Jorisch

October 22, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Stories Behind the Images: Lessons from a Life in Adventure Photography by Corey Rich

October 19, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann

October 15, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow

October 9, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein

October 5, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

September 21, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Shooting War by Anthony Feinstein

September 19, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War by Brennan USMC (Ret), Thomas J.& Finbarr O'Reilly

September 7, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Drought: An Interdisciplinary Perspective by Ben Cook

August 24, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

August 19, 2019 - Added five new book recommendations; Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara, The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Audiobook by Yuval Noah Harari, Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by William H. McRaven, and Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

August 3, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne

August 1, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, & Ola Rosling

July 27, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu

July 25, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright

July 12, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

July 2, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu

June 29, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

June 22, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama

June 13, 2019 - Added two new book recommendations; The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America by Jim Acosta and Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk by Eric Klinenberg, Sharon Marcus, & Caitlin Zaloom

June 10, 2019 - Added two new book recommendations; Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It by Richard Stengel and Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State by Emily Bell & Taylor Owen

May 11, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer

April 27, 2019 - Added three new book recommendations; One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg, and Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump by Dan Pfeiffer

April 21, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today by Jack Wertheimer

April 6, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts by David E. McCraw

March 18, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It by Steven Brill

March 1, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew G. McCabe

February 19, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger

February 12, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson

February 9, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America by Howard Schultz

February 7, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Bloomberg by Bloomberg, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition by Michael R. Bloomberg

February 6, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good by Cory Booker

February 2, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

January 24, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence by James R. Clapper with Trey Brown

January 12, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies by Michael V. Hayden

January 5, 2019 - Added a new book recommendation; A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey

December 30, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler

December 27, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling by Amy Chozick

December 25, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff & David Corn

December 8, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The Fighters by C. J. Chivers

December 1, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News by Matthew Pressman

November 24, 2018 - Added two new book recommendations; The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right by Max Boot and Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House by April Ryan

November 11, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza

November 7, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy by Marvin Kalb

November 3, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

October 17, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham

October 6, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

October 2, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

September 25, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction by Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd

September 22, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

September 20, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes

September 15, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

September 11, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman

September 8, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders

August 4, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Crafting Light and Shadow by Chris Knight

July 7, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Dusk to Dawn: A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night by Glenn Randall

June 23, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics by John B. Judis

June 2, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow

May 21, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper by Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson

April 8, 2018 - Added a new article, How to Look Great in a Corporate Style Headshot

April 7, 2018 - Added two new book recommendations; When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi and Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources by Norman Pearlstine

March 25, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; A Path to Peace: A Brief History of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations and a Way Forward in the Middle East by George J. Mitchell & Alon Sachar

March 18, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

March 3, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The Road to Character by David Brooks

February 7, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power by Meghan L. O'Sullivan

January 10, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco

January 6, 2018 - Added three new book recommendations; The Enthusiast's Guide to DIY Photography: 77 Projects, Hacks, Techniques, and Inexpensive Solutions for Getting Great Photos by Mike Hagen, The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce, and The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell

January 1, 2018 - Added a new book recommendation; The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East by Adam Valen Levinson

December 31, 2017 - Wow! I read 64 books in 2017. I don't expect to top that easily (if ever?).

December 30, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet

December 29, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.

December 27, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

December 24, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll

December 23, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported by E.J. Dionne Jr.,‎ Norman J. Ornstein,‎ & Thomas E. Mann

December 20, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green

December 16, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes

December 12, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

December 9, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; The Sustainable City by Steven Cohen

December 8, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes

December 7, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

December 3, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

November 28, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

November 27, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

November 25, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan

November 22, 2017 - Added two new book recommendations; Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah and The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time by Brooke Gladstone

November 20, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood by Paul Greenberg

November 14, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; The DSLR Filmmaker's Handbook: Real-World Production Techniques 2nd Edition by Barry Andersson

November 11, 2017 - Added two new book recommendations; The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books by Matti Friedman and How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon by Rosa Brooks

November 4, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt

October 28, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur

October 21, 2017- Added two new book recommendations; The Audacity to Win: How Obama Won and How We Can Beat the Party of Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin by David Plouffe and Here I Am: The Story of Tim Hetherington, War Photographer by Alan Huffman

October 15, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod

October 8, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard Haass

September 30, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Storytelling for Photojournalists: Reportage and Documentary Photography Techniques by Enzo dal Verme

September 28, 2017 - Added two new book recommendations; On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder and The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century by Dr. Dickson Despommier

September 23, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Tools for Grassroots Activists: Best Practices for Success in the Environmental Movement by Nora Gallagher & Lisa Myers

September 9, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

September 7, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance

September 4, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

August 24, 2017 - Added two new book recommendations; Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond and Shooter: Combat From Behind The Camera by Stacy Pearsall

August 19, 2017 - Added two new book recommendations; An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power by Al Gore and Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen by Fred Ritchin

August 14, 2017 - Added three new book recommendations; Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario and Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank

July 29, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; The Photographer's Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone by Lindsay Adler

July 9, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron

July 1, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; The Nikon Autofocus System: Mastering Focus for Sharp Images Every Time 2nd Edition by Mike Hagen

June 24, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class by Elizabeth Warren

June 18, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken

June 1, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Putting God Second: How to Save Religion from Itself by Donniel Hartman

May 20, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Get the Truth: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Persuade Anyone to Tell All by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, & Peter Romary

May 13, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect by Ronald Kessler

May 6, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet by Michael Bloomberg & Carl Pope

April 23, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan

April 18, 2017 - Added three new book recommendations; The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents by Ronald Kessler, Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food by Roger Horowitz and Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero & Don Tennant

April 15, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Flow Posing: Fast and Furious Posing Techniques for Wedding Photographers by Doug Gordon

April 12, 2017 - Added a page concerning the observance of Jewish holidays, Second Day Yom Tov in the Diaspora . Added a new book recommendation; An Insider's Guide to the UN: Third Edition 3rd Edition by Linda Fasulo

April 8, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; A Photographer's Life: A Journey from Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist to Celebrated Nature Photographer by Jack Dykinga

April 2, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation by Edward Humes

February 13, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; The Heart of Loneliness: How Jewish Wisdom Can Help You Cope and Find Comfort by Rabbi Marc Katz

February 10, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism by Howard Chapnick

January 31, 2017 - Added a section on helicopter aerial photography to my how-to article on photographing New York City.

January 28, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story by Matti Friedman

January 14, 2017 - Added two new book recommendations; Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron and Photographing Women: Posing, Lighting, and Shooting Techniques for Portrait and Fashion Photography by Jeff Rojas

January 7, 2017 - Added a new book recommendation; Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach 7th Edition by Kenneth Kobre

December 29, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; The 2016 Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law

December 27, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect by Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel

December 19, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Associated Press Guide to News Writing: The Resource for Professional Journalists 3rd Edition by René J. Cappon

December 10, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Journalistic Writing: Building the Skills, Honing the Craft 3rd Edition by Robert M. Knight

November 26, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris

October 25, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Traces of God: Seeing God in Torah, History and Everyday Life by Rabbi Neil Gillman

October 22, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) by Steve Krug

October 18, 2016 - Added two new book recommendations; And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East by Richard Engel and Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production by Jonathan Kern

October 15, 2016 - Added two new book recommendations; Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland by Miriam Horn and 2017 Photographer's Market: How and Where to Sell Your Photography by Noel Rivera

October 4, 2016 - Added two new book recommendations; Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism 2nd Edition by Brian Horton and A Replacement Life: A Novel by Boris Fishman

September 30, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy

September 12, 2016 - Added information about Governors Island to the article Photographing the New York City Skyline.

September 3, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Architectural Photography, 3rd Edition: Composition, Capture, and Digital Image Processing by Adrian Schulz

August 25, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them by Joseph E. Stiglitz

July 30, 2016 - Added two new book recommendations; The Complete Guide to Macro and Close-Up Photography by Cyrill Harnischmacher and Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity by Joseph E. Stiglitz

July 23, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama by Dennis Ross

July 9, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Annie Leibovitz at Work by Annie Leibovitz

June 13, 2016 - Added three new book recommendations; Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment by Wenonah Hauter, How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Revised: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter by Matt Kepnes and Masterclass: Professional Studio Photography by Dennis Savini

April 30, 2016 - Added two new book recommendations; Photographing Shadow and Light: Inside the Dramatic Lighting Techniques and Creative Vision of Portrait Photographer by Joey L. and Picture Perfect Lighting: An Innovative Lighting System for Photographing People by Roberto Valenzuela

April 11, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; The Definitive Book of Body Language by Barbara Pease & Allan Pease

April 7, 2016 - Added a new article; Guide to Photographing the Milky Way From Near New York City

March 26, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Jared A. Cohen & Eric Schmidt

March 5, 2016 - Added three new book recommendations; Master Posing Guide for Wedding Photographers by Bill Hurter, One Wedding: How to Photograph a Wedding from Start to Finish by Brett Florens and Photographing Men: Posing, Lighting, and Shooting Techniques for Portrait and Fashion Photography by Jeff Rojas

February 20, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; The Design Aglow Posing Guide for Wedding Photography: 100 Modern Ideas for Photographing Engagements, Brides, Wedding Couples, and Wedding Parties by Lena Hyde

February 19, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Passenger Seat: Creating a Photographic Project from Conception through Execution in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom by Julieanne Kost

February 7, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Advertising Photography: A Straightforward Guide to a Complex Industry by Lou Lesko & Bobbi Lane

February 3, 2016 - Added a new article; Photo Booths vs. Photo Studios

January 23, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; The Portrait: Understanding Portrait Photography 2nd Edition by Glenn Rand & Tim Meyer

January 16, 2016 - Added a new book recommendation; Stylish Weddings: Create Dramatic Wedding Photography in Any Setting by Kevin Jairaj

January 8, 2016 - Added a new article; Guide to Buying a Digital Camera

January 2, 2016 - Added two new book recommendations; Foundations of Posing: A Comprehensive Guide for Wedding and Portrait Photographers by Pierre Stephenson and Going Pro: How to Make the Leap from Aspiring to Professional Photographer by Scott Bourne & Skip Cohen

December 29, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; 2016 Photographer's Market: How and Where to Sell Your Photography by Mary Burzlaff Bostic

December 26, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; MORE Best Business Practices for Photographers by John Harrington

December 24, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Photography Careers: Finding Your True Path by Mark Jenkinson

December 20, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach 6th Edition by Kenneth Kobre

December 14, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; What They Didn’t Teach You In Photo School: The secrets of the trade that will make you a success in the industry by Demetrius Fordham

November 28, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Digital Landscape Photography: In the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Great Masters by Michael Frye

November 21, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; The Art of Digital Wedding Photography: Professional Techniques with Style by Bambi Cantrell & Skip Cohen and Monte Zucker's Portrait Photography Handbook by Monte Zucker

November 14, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson

November 7, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; Composition: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Laurie S. Excell and Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton

November 2, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; One Flash!: Great Photography with Just One Light by Tilo Gockel

October 31, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Food Foolish: The Hidden Connection Between Food Waste, Hunger and Climate Change by John M. Mandyck & Eric B. Schultz

October 24, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Capturing Light: The Heart of Photography by Michael Freeman

October 17, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik

October 10, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity by Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

October 3, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

September 29, 2015 - Added tthree new book recommendations; The Creative Fight: Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine by Chris Orwig, Good Dirt: Confessions Of A Conservationist Second Edition Edition by David E. Morine and Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

September 26, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; Color Management & Quality Output: Working with Color from Camera to Display to Print by Tom P. Ashe and Mastering Composition: The Definitive Guide for Photographers by Richard Garvey-Williams

September 21, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story by Greg Smith

September 19, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel

September 15, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution by Auden Schendler and Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart

September 12, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Lighting for Product Photography: The Digital Photographer's Step-By-Step Guide to Sculpting with Light by Allison Earnest

August 29, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund by Charles F. Wurster and The Photographer's Pricing System: Get paid what you're worth for portraits and weddings by Alicia Caine

August 27, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir by Christopher R. Hill

August 22, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; The Headshot: The Secrets to Creating Amazing Headshot Portraits by Peter Hurley

August 8, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Bright Lights, No City: An African Adventure on Bad Roads With a Brother and a Very Weird Business by Max Alexander

July 28, 2015 - First draft of article about Photographing the New York City Skyline posted.

July 26, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Compost City: Practical Composting Know-How for Small-Space Living by Rebecca Louie

July 21, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; The Truth About Green Business by Gil Friend

July 11, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century by Mark Dowie

July 4, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; HDR Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Tim Cooper

July 3, 2015 - Added three new book recommendations; Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist by Ray C. Anderson & Robin White, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Thingsby William McDonough & Michael Braungart and The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance by William McDonough & Michael Braungart

June 13, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Mastering the Model Shoot: Everything a Photographer Needs to Know Before, During, and After the Shoot by Frank Doorhof

June 6, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Photography Business Secrets: The Savvy Photographer's Guide to Sales, Marketing, and More by Lara White

May 26, 2015 - Added four new book recommendations; The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography by Glenn Randall, A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales by Dr. Ruth Calderon, Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff and The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic by George Lakoff & Elisabeth Wehling

May 16, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; Studio Anywhere: A Photographer's Guide to Shooting in Unconventional Locations by Nick Fancher

May 9, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; Light, Gesture, and Color by Jay Maisel and The Ultimate Guide to Digital Nature Photography by The Mountain Trail Photo Team

May 2, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; Astrophotography by Thierry Legault and It's Not About the F-Stop by Jay Maisel

April 29, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; Creative Flash Photography: Great Lighting with Small Flashes: 40 Flash Workshops by Tilo Gockel and One Speedlight, 16 Looks by Robert Harrington

April 20, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Off-Camera Flash: Techniques for Digital Photographers by Neil van Niekerk

April 18, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Photographers at Work: Essential Business and Production Skills for Photographers in Editorial, Design, and Advertising by Martin Evening

April 11, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; Lighting & Design for Portrait Photography: Direction & Quality of Light by Neil van Niekerk and The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win by Jeffrey Hollender & Bill Breen

April 5, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet by Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman

March 26, 2015 - Added two new book recommendations; The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman and Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery

March 15, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Shoot to Thrill: Speedlight Flash Techniques for Photographers by Michael Mowbray

March 11, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; The Speedlight Studio: Professional Portraits with Portable Flash by Michael Mowbray

March 10, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall

March 3, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; The Light and the Life: Field Notes from a Photographer by Joe McNally

February 22, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy by Steven Cohen, William Eimicke & Alison Miller

February 8, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Photography Night Sky: A Field Guide for Shooting After Dark by Jennifer Wu & James Martin

February 7, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; The Bridge at the Edge of the World by James Gustave Speth

February 1, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Night Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Gabriel Biderman & Tim Cooper

January 25, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Making Competition Work in Electricity by Sally Hunt

January 19, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management by Harvard Business Review

January 17, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose (2nd Edition) by Rajendra S. Sisodia, Jagdish N. Sheth & David B. Wolfe

January 12, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

January 6, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts by Marc J. Epstein & Adriana Rejc Buhovac

January 3, 2015 - Added a new book recommendation; Photovoltaic Systems by James P. Dunlop

December 27, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Essentials of Supply Chain Management by Michael H. HugosEssentials of Supply Chain Management by Michael H. Hugos

December 23, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; At Home in Exile: Why Diaspora Is Good for the Jews by Alan Wolfe

December 18, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

December 6, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins

November 21, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin

November 6, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity by James Hansen

October 31, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

October 25, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis by Ruth DeFries

October 18, 2014 - Added three new book recommendations; Rav Kook's Introduction to Shabbat Ha'aretz by Rabbi Julian Sinclair, The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook: When It All Comes Together by Jeana Wirtenberg (don't bother with this one!) and Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good by Chris Laszlo

October 12, 2014 - Added three new book recommendations; The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil by Christine Bader, Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business by Joel Makower and Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development by Chad Holliday, Stephan Schmidheiny & Philip Watts

October 4, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World by Andrew S. Winston

September 27, 2014 - Added three new book recommendations; Climate Change: Picturing the Science by Gavin Schmidt & Joshua Wolfe, Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability by Katie Kross and Return on Sustainability: How Business Can Increase Profitability and Address Climate Change in an Uncertain Economy by Kevin Wilhelm

September 20, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson

September 2, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War by Robert M Gates

August 24, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer

August 17, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander

August 11, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann

August 10, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Redeployment by Phil Klay

August 5, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World by William D. Nordhaus

August 3, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath

July 27, 2014 - Added two new book recommendations; Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World by Gary Hirshberg and The Photographer's Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas by Jason Fulford & Gregory Halpern

July 20, 2014 - Added two new book recommendations; But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World by Gernot Wagner & More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America by Robert M. Collins

July 13, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Guide to Financial Markets by Marc Levinson

July 6, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

June 29, 2014 - Added two new book recommendations; Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel by Daniel E. Orenstein, Alon Tal & Char Miller and Hillel: If Not Now, When? by Joseph Telushkin

June 15, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing by Doug McKenzie-Mohr

June 8, 2014 - Added two new book recommendations; The Digital Print: Preparing Images in Lightroom and Photoshop for Printing by Jeff Schewe and Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View by Stephen Breyer

May 31, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

May 30, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Audio CD) by Ari Shavit

May 23, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. M. Conway

May 16, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Picture Perfect Posing: Practicing the Art of Posing for Photographers and Models by Roberto Valenzuela

May 8, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service by Henry A. Crumpton

April 26, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Capture the Magic: Train Your Eye, Improve Your Photographic Composition by Jack Dykinga

April 22, 2014 - Added two new book recommendations; The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop by Jeff Schewe and The Hidden Power of Blend Modes in Adobe Photoshop by Scott Valentine

April 19, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Photographer's Story by Michael Freeman

April 17, 2014 - Added three new book recommendations; Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Celebrity and Editorial Photography by Michael Grecco, The New Art of Photographing Nature: An Updated Guide to Composing Stunning Images of Animals, Nature, and Landscapes by Art Wolfe and Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs by Roberto Valenzuela

April 12, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change by Bill McKibben

April 1, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Corporate Sustainability: Integrating Performance and Reporting by Ann Brockett & Zabihollah Rezaee

March 26, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash Paperback by Edward Humes

March 16, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Making Sustainability Stick: The Blueprint for Successful Implementation by Kevin Wilhelm

March 8, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Grow a Greener Data Center by Douglas Alger

March 7, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era by Amory Lovins

February 10, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement by Kate Davies

February 4, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by by McKenzie Funk

February 2, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology by Alexis Madrigal

January 31, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy-and Our Planet-from Dirty Energy by Danny Kennedy

January 26, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy by Jigar Shah

January 19, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; The Earth System (3rd Edition) by Lee R. Kump, James F. Kasting & Robert G. Crane

January 4, 2014 - Added a new book recommendation; Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future (12th Edition) by Richard T. Wright & Dorothy Boorse

December 21, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Believing and Its Tensions: A Personal Conversation about God, Torah, Suffering and Death in Jewish Thought by Rabbi Neil Gillman

December 18, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; The Guide to Greening Cities by Sadhu Aufochs Johnston, Steven S. Nicholas & Julia Parzen

December 14, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; A New Blueprint for a Green Economy by Edward B. Barbier & Anil Markandya

December 8, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth by Eric Pooley

November 30, 2013 - Added two new book recommendations; Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer by Gregory Heisler and The Portrait Photographer's Lighting Style Guide: Recipes for Lighting and Composing Professional Portraits by James Cheadle & Peter Travers

November 9, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming Paperback by Fred Krupp & Miriam Horn

October 31, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben

October 19, 2013 - Added two new book recommendations; Quavondo's Photography Lighting Techniques: With Sample Images and Light Set-Ups by Quavondo Nguyen and Photographing Women: 1,000 Poses by Eliot Siegel

September 30, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; A Photojournalist's Field Guide: In the trenches with combat photographer Stacy Pearsall by Stacy Pearsall

September 28, 2013 - Added three new book recommendations; Peter Read Miller on Sports Photography: A Sports Illustrated photographer's tips, tricks, and tales on shooting football, the Olympics, and portraits of athletes by Peter Read Miller, The Photographer's MBA: Everything You Need to Know for Your Photography Business by Sal Cincotta and Secrets of Great Portrait Photography: Photographs of the Famous and Infamous by Brian Smith

September 21, 2013 - Added two new book recommendations; Photography Q&A: Real Questions. Real Answers. by Zack Arias and Lighting for Digital Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Syl Arena

September 7, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs

August 24, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; PMP Exam Prep, Eighth Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam by Rita Mulcahy

July 22, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: PMBOK(R) Guide by Project Management Institute

July 15, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Environmental Law and Policy 3d Edition by James Salzman & Barton H. Thompson Jr.

June 23, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

May 16, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Location Lighting for the Outdoor Photographer by Michael Clark

April 20, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century by Fred Pearce

April 2, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Eco Barons: The New Heroes of Environmental Activism by Edward Humes

March 13, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution by John Robbins

January 21, 2013 - Added two new book recommendations; Project Management Fundamentals: A Practical Overview of the PMBOK by George T. Edwards and Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry by Travis Bradford

January 19, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

January 16, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben

January 8, 2013 - Added a new book recommendation; Carbon Finance: The Financial Implications of Climate Change by Sonia Labatt & Rodney R. White

December 31, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel C. Esty & Andrew Winston

December 29, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; The Effective Public Manager: Achieving Success in a Changing Government by Steve Cohen, William Eimicke, & Tanya Heikkila

December 22, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Understanding Environmental Policy by Steven Cohen

December 2, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse by Lester R. Brown

November 19, 2012 - Added two new book recommendations; Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben and Teenagers Educated The Village Way by Chaim Peri

November 3, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism by David Hartman

October 20, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Sustainability Management: Lessons from and for New York City, America, and the Planet by Steven Cohen

October 14, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis

October 7, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; A Heart of Many Rooms: Celebrating the Many Voices Within Judaism by David Hartman

October 2, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Digital Wedding Photography: Art, Business & Style by Steve Sint

September 29, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Wedding Photojournalism: The Business of Aesthetics: A Guide for Professional Digital Photographers by Paul D. Van Hoy II

September 27, 2012 - Added two new book recommendations; Professional Model Portfolios: A Step-by-Step Guide for Photographers by Billy Pegram and The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin

September 8, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History by Matt Taibbi

August 19, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

August 12, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else by George Anders

July 23, 2012 - Added three new book recommendations; The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken, Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution by Edward Humes and Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg

June 16, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; From Defender to Critic: The Search for a New Jewish Self by David Hartman

June 3, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Flow Posing: The Practical Guide for Wedding Photographers by Johnie L Cook

May 28, 2012 - Added two new book recommendations; The Responsible Company by Yvon Chouinard & Vincent Stanley and Purple Squirrel by Michael B Junge

May 23, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide: Tools and Techniques to Hit the Trail by Andrew Skurka

May 20, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Exposed: Inside the Life and Images of a Pro Photographer by Michael Clark

May 5, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch by Sue Fishkoff

April 29, 2012 - Added three new book recommendations; The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story by Robert Baer & Dayna Baer, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor & Saul Singer and Walking Israel by Martin Fletcher

April 14, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Jewish Ethics & Social Justice by Shmuly Yanklowitz

April 8, 2012 - Added two new book recommendations; Adventure Sports Photography: Creating Dramatic Images in Wild Places by Tom Bol and Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard

March 25, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Digital Wedding Photography Photo Workshop by Kenny Kim

March 10, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Medicine for Mountaineering: And Other Wilderness Activitites by James A. Wilkerson

January 21, 2012 - Added a new book recommendation; Kevin Kubota's Lighting Notebook: 101 Lighting Styles and Setups for Digital Photographers by Kevin Kubota

December 31, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Sketching Light: An Illustrated Tour of the Possibilities of Flash by Joe McNally

December 18, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Visual Stories: Behind the Lens with Vincent Laforet by Vincent Laforet

December 17, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Posing for Portrait Photography: A Head-to-Toe Guide for Digital Photographers by Jeff Smith

December 10, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Doug Box's Guide to Posing for Portrait Photographers by Douglas Allen Box

December 4, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; The Passionate Photographer: Ten Steps Toward Becoming Great by Steve Simon

November 19, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom by Chris Palmer

November 14, 2011 - Added six new book recommendations; A Rope and a Prayer: The Story of a Kidnapping by David Rohde & Kristen Mulvihill, Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II by Ben Macintyre, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans by Wendell Potter, White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by Carl Elliott and Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales

October 29, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Photographically Speaking: A Deeper Look at Creating Stronger Images by David duChemin

October 22, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; The Photographer's Vision: Understanding and Appreciating Great Photography by Michael Freeman and On Being a Photographer: A Practical Guide by David Hurn & Bill Jay

October 9, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World by Sidney Schwarz

October 1, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

September 24, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting and Rethinking Jewish Tradition by Dr. David Hartman

September 24, 2011 - Added a link to my Events website from the home page.

September 17, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

August 22, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz and Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

August 13, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt

August 7, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment by Benjamin Ross & Steven Amter

July 31, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Inside Sport Psychology by Costas Karageorghis & Peter Terry

July 10, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes by Andy Karr & Michael Wood

July 7, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; My Favorite Place: Great Athletes in the Great Outdoors by Jason Paur & Corey Rich

June 26, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Why Photographs Work: 52 Great Images Who Made Them, What Makes Them Special and Why by George Barr

June 19, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority by Sue Fishkoff

June 10, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All by Oran B. Hesterman and Adventure Photography: Capturing the World of Outdoor Sports by Michael Clark

May 1, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World by Oliver A. Houck

April 26, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Sage Tales: Wisdom and Wonder from the Rabbis of the Talmud by Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky

April 23, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; To Do the Right and the Good: A Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics by Elliot N Dorff

April 20, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen Principles Reappraised by Marc B. Shapiro and Talking about God: Exploring the Meaning of Religious Life with Kierkegaard, Buber, Tillich and Heschel by Daniel Polish

April 16, 2011 - Added two new book recommendations; AMC Guide to Outdoor Leadership: Trip Planning: Group Dynamics, Decision Making, Leading Youth & Risk Management by Alex Kosseff and The Photographer's Mind: Creative Thinking for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman

April 1, 2011 - Launched the Fluent Imagery website, still a work in progress.

March 27, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; VisionMongers: Making a Life and a Living in Photography by David duChemin

March 14, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Captured by the Light: The Essential Guide to Creating Extraordinary Wedding Photography by David Ziser

March 4, 2011 - Added a small gallery and slideshow of Bicyclists as well as a couple of new People images.

February 26, 2011 - Added three new book recommendations; Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey by Harold M. Schulweis, Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Amy Dockser Marcus and Here is New York by E.B. White

February 12, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel by Alon Tal

January 22, 2011 - Added a new book recommendation; AMC's Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance

November 13, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer and Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

October 16, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Why Faith Matters by David J. Wolpe

October 2, 2010 - Added three new book recommendations; Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah & Israel in Modern Judaism by Neil Gillman, Maimonides, Spinoza and Us: Toward an Intellectually Vibrant Judaism by Marc Angel and When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner

September 26, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Jewish Theology in Our Time: A New Generation Explores the Foundations and Future of Jewish Belief by Elliot J. Cosgrove

September 19, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition by Jill Jacob

August 28, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance by Michael Goldfarb

August 26, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer

August 22, 2010 - Added a gallery of images from a trip to Iceland in August 2010.

August 17, 2010 - Added three new book recommendations; The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George, The Forever War by Dexter Filkins and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin

July 17, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins and Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins (The later is a supplement to the former)

May 22, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories by Etgar Keret and Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry by Scott A. Shay

May 21, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; Jews and Power by Ruth R. Wisse and Be Expert with Map and Compass by Bjorn Kjellstrom and Carina Kjellstrom Elgin

May 1, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Outdoor Navigation With GPS: Hiking, Geocaching, Canoeing, Kayaking, Fishing, Outdoor Photography, Backpacking, Mountain Biking by Stephen W. Hinch

April 24, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski

April 17, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities by Elie Kaunfer

April 7, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler

April 3, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson

April 1, 2010 - Added two new book recommendations; The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis and Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices by Mosab Hassan Yousef

March 27, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah by Joel Chasnoff

March 16, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At Last by Bernard Avishai

March 7, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

February 20, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages by David Kraemer

January 23, 2010 - Added a new book recommendation; Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore

December 5, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision by David duChemin

October 31, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman

October 23, 2009 - Added three new book recommendations; Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin and Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman

October 4, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom (2nd Edition) by Bruce Fraser & Jeff Schewe

September 29, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS4 by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe

September 27, 2009 - Added an initial gallery of images from a trip to Costa Rica in February 2008 (tardy, I am!).

September 26, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Book Design by Andrew Haslam

September 1, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton

August 14, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

August 14, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It by Robyn O'Brien

August 1, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Layout Book by Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris

July 30, 2009 - Added a gallery of images from a recent trip to Romania and a new image from that trip to the About Me page.

July 27, 2009 - Added seven new book recommendations; Among the Righteous by Robert Satloff, A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman, The Brethren by John Grisham, The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart, Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War by Isabella Ginor & Gideon Remez, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan, and Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison

July 11, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

July 5, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students by Ellen Lupton

June 28, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape by Galen A. Rowell

May 4, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; First Light: A Landscape Photographer's Journey by Joe Cornish

April 20, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Working the Light: A Photography Masterclass by Eddie Ephraums, Joe Cornish, Charlie Waite, David Ward

April 17, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting by Fil Hunter, Steven Biver, & Paul Fuqua and completed a major re-organization as well as other changes (i.e. added a blog!) to www.NYCdayHiking.com.

April 6, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes by Joe McNally

March 23, 2009 - Added a new book recommendation; Digital Portrait Photography: Art, Business & Style by Steve Sint

January 1, 2009 - Added the final gallery of images of the race itself and some miscellaneous stuff from a weekend of auto racing at Watkins Glen in August 2007 (tardy, I am!).

December 13, 2008 - Added a video of me skydiving in June 1996.

November 30, 2008 - Added a gallery of images of the fan experience from a weekend of auto racing at Watkins Glen in August 2007 (tardy, I am!). Images of the race itself and some other miscellaneous images are yet to come.

November 23, 2008 - Added an initial gallery of pre-race images from a weekend of auto racing at Watkins Glen in August 2007 (tardy, I am!). Images of race fans and the race itself are yet to come.

November 19, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Words That Work, Revised, Updated Edition: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Frank Luntz

October 25, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies by Lee Varis

October 15, 2008 - Added two new book recommendations; Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America by Arnold M. Eisen and the ASMP Professional Business Practices in Photography, 7th Edition

October 1, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Best Business Practices for Photographers by John Harrington

August 27, 2008 - Added a few new book recommendations in the Business, Economics and Finance section for some books that have stood the test of time.

August 25, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters by Joe McNally

August 18, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; So Why Have You Never Been Married?: 10 Insights Into Why He Hasn't Wed by Carl Weisman

August 14, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook by Nancy Wolff

August 9, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; The Way Into Judaism and the Environment by Jeremy Benstein

August 5, 2008 - Added a Field Note to the Random Field Notes page about some useful phrases that I might have coined.

July 5, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Occam's Razor: An Outside-In View of Contemporary Photography by Bill Jay.

June 28, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D300 by Thom Hogan.

June 18, 2008 - Added an initial gallery of images from a trip to The Palouse in June 2007 (tardy, I am!).

April 21, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice by Rabbi Or N. Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, & Margie Klein (editors).

April 1, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Blood of the Liberals by George Packer.

February 27, 2008 - Added many comments to my book recommendations page as well as new entries for various books including some recently completed ones such as The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan and Masters Of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces by Linda Robinson. All book related comments that were on this page have been moved to the book recommendations page.

January 15, 2008 - Added a slideshow Camp can be a lonely place without people featuring a deserted Camp Ramah in the Berkshires and some very nice Chopin music.

January 14, 2008 - Added a page of Party / Dance mix's. The day may be over when we burn CD's but you still need to figure out which songs to play.

January 13, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; Photographer's Legal Guide by Carolyn E. Wright.

January 6, 2008 - Added a new book recommendation; How Pictures Work by Molly Bang.

January 3, 2008 - Added a link on the home page to a charity event, the Hazon Israel Hike, that I am participating in. Click on the link to read more and sponsor me if you like (contributions go to charity, not to me).

December 24, 2007 - Added an initial gallery of images from a trip to the Moab, Utah area in October 2007.

December 23, 2007 - Added an initial gallery of images from a trip to the Escalante, Utah area in September 2007.

December 22, 2007 - Added a new book recommendation; The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Martin Evening.

September 29, 2007 - Added a new book recommendation; Love Your Neighbor And Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics by Elliot N. Dorff.

September 23, 2007 - Added an image of a hiking group to the Hikers page.

September 20, 2007 - Added two new (audio) book recommendations; The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama and Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell.

August 14, 2007 - Added a new (audio) book recommendation; Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.

August 3, 2007 - Added a Field Note to the Random Field Notes page about one difference between Washington and Idaho that I noted while traveling around the Palouse in June 2007. I expect to eventually post some images from that trip,...

June 19, 2007 - Added new book recommendations; Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Places In Between by Rory Stewart and Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with Nascar by Jeff MacGregor.

April 11, 2007 - Added a new book recommendation; Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics by Elliot N. Dorff.

March 18, 2007 - Added a series of images of a Shoei motorcycle helmet.

March 9, 2007 - Added a series of images of a wine goblet.

January 1, 2007 - Added two new book recommendation; The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski and A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W. French.

December 17, 2006 - Added the book Scribblers on the Roof by Melvin Jules Bukiet & David G. Roskies to my book recommendations page.

November 6, 2006 - Launched www.NYCdayhiking.com, a new (and somewhat derivative) website dedicated to day hiking in the NYC area.

October 17, 2006 - Added a quote from Ecclesiastes to the top of the home page. I discuss it on this page.

October 11, 2006 - Added images of a second Jennifer from a recent shoot to the People page (so now there are two different Jennifer's on that page!).

September 29, 2006 - Added images from my recent trip to Alaska. Also updated the home page photo with an image of Denali (Mt. McKinley) from that trip.

September 7, 2006 - Added two new book recommendation; Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival: A Memoir by Jay Neugeboren and Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll.

May 2006 - Added a page of images from the Save Darfur rally in Washington D.C. that was held on Sunday, April 30.

Please feel free to email Michael Brochstein with any comments, suggestions and/or questions.