Words and Photographs Combine with Wild Among Us, by Pat-Toth-Smith

SPARKS, Nev. - July 15, 2013 - PRLog -- CALIFORNIA, USA - Pictures are worth a 1,000 words, however author Pat Toth-Smith’s words further create a 1,000 pictures.  Her book, titled Wild Among Us: True adventures of a female wildlife photographer who stalks bears, wolves, mountain lions, wild horses and other elusive wildlife, brings the outdoors indoors, the untamed animals into your living room, and tantalizes your imagination by her brilliant storytelling.  Her exploits, combined with the award winning photography, create an experience to behold; reading that is not just for passing the time.  She has created a book which stands out like a Giant Sequoia among the forest of ordinary books attempting to grab the sunlight of attention.  

Pat Toth-Smith creatively compares herself to a coyote.  “Coyotes adapt well to a lot of environments. They slink about unnoticed; they’re almost invisible, and yet they thrive. I have modeled my behavior on them when I travel alone,” she told an interviewer from Pacific Book Review.  “Humans and wildlife are interconnected,” she pointed out, saying, “My photographs and stories are meant to help reestablish that connection with nature and maybe inspire others to get out into the wilderness more often, or at least to help preserve it with sound policies that benefit wildlife as well as humans.”

“The photography in the book is truly stunning and captivates the reader.  To see images frozen in time, the perfect shots, and then to hear the stories about them, really is impactful on the reader,” quoted one reviewer. She continued, “While reading the book, I was part amused, part proud, by the author’s candid talk about her fears, everything from running into wild animals to meeting strangers.  It really says a lot about her determination and love of her job that she would continue to face those fears on a daily basis.  It’s a motivation for us all that we can face our fears to do what we love.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Pat Toth-Smith has an established reputation as a wildlife photographer with more than twenty years of professional experience. She is a leading master wildlife photographer whose bear and other wildlife photographs have sold in numerous markets, galleries and hundreds of fine art shows. She was a featured artist in Wildlife Art magazine in 2005 and was the guest artist at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park in 2008. Her work has been sold in Sequoia, Yosemite, and Kings Canyon National Parks. The concept for the book Wild Among Us, came out of Pat’s years of selling her fine art images in the West, primarily in California, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming, and engaging her customer’s reactions to her photographs and their accompanying stories. Her wildlife encounters seem to personalize the images for them, and as a result many of her customers became collectors of her work.

Title: Wild Among Us: True adventures of a female wildlife photographer who stalks bears, wolves, mountain lions, wild horses and other elusive wildlife    

Author:   Pat Toth-Smith

Publisher: Amazon’s Createspace and Pat Toth-Smith Photography

ISBN:  978-0-9892513-3-4   hardcover, 978-0-9892513-1-0 softcover

Pages: 102

Genre: Biography/Photography/Animals/Nature/

Distributors: Amazon, Ingram US/ UK/Europe/Australia/New Zealand, Barnes and Noble, Baker &Taylor, NACSCORP, Expresso Book Machine, Pat Toth-Smith Photography

(Wild Among Us was featured book of the month on the Pacific Book Review website for June 2013)