Amazon delivered this purchase on time and as promised. After opening CORPORATE & LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHY I could not set it down. Experience counts in this business and Gary has communicated that experience to the Nth degree. The chapter showing and telling about his "Road Kit" is worth the price of the book alone. Any photographer worth his salt recognizes the value received exceeds the cost of this book.

I am the author of The Location Photographer's Handbook and have been a photographer for thirty years.

This is THE book to have for guidance on corporate and location photography. Gladstone is synonymous with the subject and has written a work that is not only thorough and authoritative, but remarkably candid.

For the price of two rolls of film and processing, photographers can be armed with a secret weapon - the no-holds-barred, common sense strategies of one of the masters of the profession.

Worth the price of admission for "mystery lights," and "wrong film." You'll have to read it to know what I refer to!

Gary's book is chock full of useful information, with an inside view from a corporate photographer's perspective.

Definately a must-have!

Gary Gladstone's neat idea to photograph residents in some of the oddest named places in the US makes an interesting book. Most of the places are tiny towns or less and only needed a weird name to be included. I'm not sure why Flushing, a pretty big place in an even bigger place, New York, was included though.

Each place has a spread with the text and small map on the left-hand page and a photo on the right-hand page. The photos are really good too, great color and compositions. The text, also written by Garry Gladstone, is fun to read and gives you a flavor of the people and places he visited but the little colored maps are next to useless, it would have been far better to have included ZIP codes or highway numbers for those readers who want to find these places on a map. I have just spent a pleasant afternoon finding most of them by using DeLorme's 'Street Atlas USA' CD-ROM, just by putting in the place and state name.

The real disappointment to me are the single photos on the right-hand pages. After travelling 38,000 miles in nine trips over five years and taking 21,000 photos surely we should get more than one per place? Nearly all of them are close-ups of people and look as if they could have been taken anywhere. There are a few exceptions, Lovely, PA and War, WV show a little of the area behind the head and shoulders of the people photographed. I would like to see more of these heartland of America places, a street scene or a store, diner, garage, a few houses, a highway sign naming each place. It's not as if there is no space, the text and photos on each spread leave masses of white space (designers call this working white) in this rather over-designed book.

'Passing Gas' is a great idea but I wish I could have seen many more of the 21,000 wonderful photos Gary Gladstone took on his travels.

With an excellent blend of humor and superb photographs, Gary Gladstone has produced a visual American travelogue of places along the endless blue highways of the United States.It is a look into the smaller than small towns emphasizing not only the town (one with a population of six) but the ambience of the location as well.Have you ever been behind the scenes of a photo shoot with a professional photographer? If not, this book will tell you about the pre-planning that needs to be done, the struggle for good light (or any light at all) and the trials and tribulations of a photographer "on the road".Grab a good chair, something cold to drink, and get ready to grin!

A fun coffeetable book with great stories and photos alike. Takes you to all of those oddly (aptly?) named places in America that you'd never visit on purpose but often wondered what went on there and what are the people really like? Truth is stranger than fiction when it comes to some of our neighbors in these United States.