A book written by a best-selling author, a photo enthusiast. A book without difficult, incomprehensible terms or a multitude of technical descriptions. This is a book designed for people who want to learn to take photographs; who wish to know the basics of photography and photo editing; and who are looking for information on how to achieve certain effects they have seen in photographs taken by their friends or spotted online. Would you like to learn to take proper pictures of your children, pets and animals, family members, sunsets, water, buildings, and other most popular themes and phenomena? Do you want to know how to change the lights in a photograph into "stars", or how to capture individual raindrops? Or maybe you want to purchase your first camera, and you don't know what you should pay attention to, and what is just marketing babble. This is the book for you. It has been written in an accessible way. It contains numerous tips that should allow you to solve the most common, as well as not so common problems you may come across, and a lot of guidelines for you to enjoy beautiful pictures. It also comprises knowledge on how to use your camera in a conscious, creative way. You'll learn how to use light, how to compose a scene, use white balance, and what to do to keep your pictures sharp. If you want to learn how to take really nice pictures, you'll need a camera, enthusiasm, and this book.