Most photographic books that feature mountains drift too easily into postcard images and predictable views.

The first rule when you're looking is to erase the postcard images of grandeur from your mind.

The Uncasville Manufacturing Corporation operated on the river into the early 20th century, as shown in the postcard image to the right.

Now I was on a roll, but that postcard image of the setting sun was still gleaming in my eye.

The postcard image shows the slow process of removing the debris to recover the bodies.

The site offers an index of the best hometowns in America, short profiles of more than 25,000 towns, antique postcard images and other links.

"I wanted to get away from postcard images from a specific place and use pictures that capture the beauty of what I see."

For proportion - "the design of the painting" - she projects a postcard image directly onto the prepared canvas, so the image fits it precisely.

It's an apt postcard image for a production that, all in all, feels less like a treasured keepsake than a pleasant souvenir.

Often the painted passages create seamless connections between very different kinds of postcard images.