Follow a seventeen year old mercenary from Germany in this fiction/fantasy novel as he travels to America, fights in the Civil War by spying and blowing up ammunition trains. Then, through his experience with the newly patented dynamite builds railroads across America. Meet the woman he marries, who he saves from a renegade Indian attack on the western plains. As he settles in the town he established in the hills of Pennsylvania, he discovers a cave with a magic elixir, "Fountain of Youth" and builds a national tourist attraction. All this in a page turner that will keep you cheering for an...

Learn the basics of photography which includes lighting, focus, and exposure to assure that your creations are presented in the most flattering way when you submit them to magazines and other publications, or just to document your work for your future reference. If you are using a seemingly complex single lens reflex cameras or just a smart phone, you will learn how best to photograph your work. Besides learning how to set up and photograph your creations, you will learn how to transfer the images to your computer and "process" them for publication or the web. This book all the basics...