Northwestern landscape photographer Bruce Barnbaum's "The Art of Photography," a 348-page, 150 full-color photobook on photographic composition for both film and digital imagery, hit the art-store shelves in September 2010, selling all 5,000 copies in its first month of publication.

Last year, Barnbaum also taught two photography workshops at a worldwide water policy issues conference in Patagonia, Argentina. Seven of his new destination workshops are scheduled for 2011.

With an inspired eye, darkroom finesse and a compelling reverence for the earth, two noted photographers skillfully create landscapes of non-reality. Both Michael Kenna and Bruce Barnbaum forge powerful visions of a black-and-white realm that our eyes never see in nature's color-saturated world. Yet, their artistry evokes depth and wonder, not illusion. Barnbaum's bold mountain scenes and Southwest canyons give viewers the sense of standing amid these magnificent landscapes, while Kenna's painterly fine-art images embrace time in a seemingly infinite moment.

Michael Kenna has photographed subjects as diverse as Waldorf School kindergarten toys, the giant heads of Easter Island and the sites of the Nazi death camps. Currently, he feels drawn to the open, snowy expanses...