2007 Eric Hoffer Book Awards
Best Self-Published Book
Gold Medal
2011 Association of Partners for Public Lands
Non-Partner Published Works
Gold Medal
2005 Independent Book Publishers Association IPPY Awards
Photography Book of The Year
Finalist
2006 Benjamin Franklin Book Awards
Best Nature Book
Silver Medal
2011 Benjamin Franklin Book Awards
Best Cover Design - Large Format Books
Gold Medal
2006 Sappi Paper Printing Awards
Print Award
Silver Medal
2010 USA Book News Awards
Best Nature Photography Book
Gold Medal
2006 Benjamin Franklin Book Awards
Best Coffee Table Book
Silver Medal
2005 Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation
Premier Print Award
Certificate of Merit
2005 54th Annual Chicago Book Clinic Awards
Book Clinic Award
Honorable Mention
2010 Eric Hoffer Book Awards
Grand Prize for Best Bool
Finalist
2005 International Photographic Awards / The Lucie Awards
Nature Book of the Year
Silver Medal
2010 Benjamin Franklin Book Awards
Best Cover Design - Large Format Books
Gold Medal
2011 International Book Awards
Photography Book - Nature
Gold Medal
2010 Foreward Magazine Book of the Year Awards
Best Photography Book
Finalist
2011 Best Book Awards
Best Book
Finalist
2011 International Book Awards
Photography Book - People
Gold Medal
2010 Eric Hoffer Book Awards
Best Art, Photography & Coffee Table Book
Silver Medal
About the Great Smoky Mountains Book
"I took some peaceful... thoughtful time with your book. Beyond the exquisite technical execution there is a profoundly sensitive eye... that is quite revealing of your self... and at the same time revealing you as a natural extension of the observation. To be able to reveal yourself to the world through the visual poetry of your craft is a beautiful and dare I say rare gift. I was...awed. "
- Jenni McClick
About the Great Smoky Mountains Book
"Richard has a sensitivity for light that's pretty rare. He can coax a richness out of landscapes and low light conditions that you don't see other photographers experiment with. His photographs have an emotional depth that is superior to a lot of other work. It's the best large format photography book we've ever been able to offer our visitors."
- Steve Kemp
About the Great Smoky Mountains Book
"A beautiful and serene book"
- Sylvia Perez
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"A serene and beautiful book!"
- Sylvia Perez
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"The land as the captains viewed it... This handsome book's price tag reflects its exceptional production values."
- Jim Merrit
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"The scenes of fields, water, rocks, reflections and landscapes large and details small are mostly unpeopled and echo with what Lewis and Clark might have seen in their day. This is not a book to consume in one sitting. I found it best enjoyed and best contemplated in short segments."
- Steve Benoche
About Their Love of Music
"The pictures are unbelievable, so crisp... it will be on everybody's coffee table after the holiday season"
- Lin Brehmer
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"This book is absolutely gorgeous!"
- Elizabeth Bracken
About Their Love of Music
"It's a real honor to have been included in this beautiful collection"
- Natalia Zuckerman
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"This is one of the best books on the trail. Richard's photography makes you feel like you are right on the trail with Lewis & Clark!"
- Laurie Heupel
About Their Love of Music
"Steve - From what I see online the book looks outstanding - flattered to be in such company"
- Ollie O'Shea
About Their Love of Music
"It was an honor to be a part of the project. Thank you very much!"
- Genevieve Schatz
About Their Love of Music
"This book is fantastic, such a wide variety of artists, very nice"
- Norm Winer
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"The Lewis and Clark Trail: American Landscapes is a 256-page full-color slab of a book. It's a rapturous representation of the American landscape, seen both in grand wide-angle vistas and in the surfaces of wildflowers and water. It's a book that John Muir would've liked."
- Nicholas Day
About Their Love of Music
"I can't wait to bring it home and read it"
- John Farneda
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"Richard Mack's ember photograph of the Missouri River at twilight gently moves off the page into your soul. I've never been absorbed by a photograph in a coffee table travel book as much as this spiritual picture in The Lewis & Clark Trail: American Landscapes."
- Dave Hoekstra
About Their Love of Music
"This is a great book and I am so proud to be included in it! I can't wait to see it!"
- Susan Tedeschi
About Their Love of Music
"Honored to be a part of it!"
- Grant Tye
About Their Love of Music
"...such an honor to be a part of it."
- Eric Slick
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"A Beautiful book of photographs of the Lewis and Clark trail."
- Gary Moulton
About Their Love of Music
"Wow! You weren't kidding that is an awesome spread. And I don't even recognize maybe as many as half of those names. But it makes me want to know them just based on how many I did know. Dave Mason...awesome! Dave Brubeck...even awesomer! I loved seeing Nicholas Tremulus, Shemekia Copeland and all the other Chicago talent. Very cool guys!"
- M.S.
About Their Love of Music
"I agreed to write the foreword for Steve's book based on conversation and seeing some sample pictures from the concept. Having returned to my office to find a copy last week, my reaction was that it is amazing work and he should be proud! I'm very pleased to be a part of the project."
- Lester Holt
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"Nobody else has done this book...A fabulous and beautiful book about photography & history."
- Janet Davies
About Their Love of Music
"...a very special project!"
- G.S.
About Their Love of Music
"Love the book....really found it to be wonderfully edited and covers many journeymen as well as established Chicago/scene musicians. I applaud you for finding the guys and gals that do not get the press or presence as a Corgan/Tweedy these days. They get the short end of the press and photo ops, but are essential to all bands and music communities."
- Joe Shanahan
About the Great Smoky Mountains Book
"Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Thirty Years of American Landscapes is all Mack's vision of the national park, which is a treasure worth preserving."
- J.T. Morand
About the Great Smoky Mountains Book
"An amazing anthology of beautiful images"
- Janet Davies
About the Great Smoky Mountains Book
"This is the finest coffee table book we've ever seen on the Great Smokies! Park employees are buying it as gifts."
- Curt
About Their Love of Music
"It is unlike anything I've ever seen and what I love about it is the fact that the portraits are just that...not on stage, not 'action' shots. And I also really like the fact that there are plenty of people I know and plenty of people I don't"
- Terry Stewart
About the Great Smoky Mountains Book
"As the name of his company, Quiet Light Publishing, suggests, these are photos that are serene, calming and photographed in beautiful, sometimes subtle light. One doesn't always shout "Wow!" with the exclamation mark immediately because of that innate quietness, but one might whisper a muted "wow" after soaking up a beauty like Sunrise, Newfound Gap, November 2008 or the gorgeous black and white, Cosby Creek, May 2006."
- Steve Begnoche
About Their Love of Music
"I'm so proud to be a part of this project, and will support it vigorously."
- Luke Sayers
About Lewis & Clark Trail
"This may be the most beautiful of the many Lewis and Clark coffee table books published over the past few years. If you've ever wondered what it must have been like to be with Lewis and Clark on their monumental journey, looking at Mack's beautifully rendered images is as close as you could ever get."
- Tom Dickson
About Their Love of Music
"I starting looking at the PDF of the book online last night, intending to just get a taste of it, and wound up going through all of it. It just pulls you in. The portraits are exceptional. There are quite a few artists I did not know. The photos and quotes make me curious to hear their music, too. Which is as it should be. Congratulations to Steve on an extremely impressive effort. I'll have to get me one."
- Dan Phillips
