Dear Ralph, Whenever my wife and I go to Ft. Lauderdale on a shopping trip (we live in Barbados and EVERYTHING imported is expensive so we actually save money even with airfares and motel) we go into that ENORMOUS Barnes and Noble near Broward! We spend the whole day in there only breaking for lunch at their in-store café! As the ol? song says, ?Ain?t nothin? like the real thing, baby!? CHEERS! BOB Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/ <http://www.bobkiss.com/> "Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you are going to live forever". Mahatma Gandhi -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ralph W. Lambrecht Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:53 AM To: PureSilverNew Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Books on lighting techniques Wouldn?t it be nice to be able go to book stores again and just browse? I refer to this lack of actually seeing a book before one buys as Amazonimation. Regards Ralph W. Lambrecht http://www.darkroomagic.com On 2006-08-29 14:33, "Peter Badcock" <peter.badcock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Further to the recent thread on skin tones, I am trying to decide between purchasing one of the following two books. If anybody has either of them, would you be able to give me your opinion on the book? 1. "Matters of Light & Depth" by Ross Lowell, http://tinyurl.com/lpdpn 2. "Painting with light" by John Alton, http://tinyurl.com/np28h regards Peter