Bernhard Edmaier is a German geologist

Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...

, photographer and author of geoscientific books.

He is the main author of the illustrated book Earthsong

Earthsong

Earthsong is a popular webcomic with a manga influence. The author, Lady Yates, started the comic on June 8, 2004. Earthsong frequently holds the high spots on Topwebcomics and buzzComix. Earthsong volume 1 was published in mid-2006 by Seven Seas Entertainment, an imprint of the Macmillan...

(2005), in which he describes the Earth

Earth

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 and its Morphology

Geomorphology

Geomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them...

 from a new point of view based on pattern recognition

Pattern recognition

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 and photographical art

Art

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 perspectives. The Earth's phenomena are described not with respect to their Genesis but to their appearance.

Edmaier studied civil engineering

Civil engineering

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 before he switched to geology and photography. When describing landscape

Landscape

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s he works with aerial photographs, e.g. together with the journalist

Journalist

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 and geologist Angelika Jung-Hüttl (Berlin and Süddeutsche Zeitung

Süddeutsche Zeitung

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).

The work "Earthsong" is a spectacular collection of breathtaking aerial photographs of the Earth's surface and is divided into 4 chapters Aqua, Green, Desert and Barren. The photographs are accompanied by text and are taken all around the world from Alaska to the Bahamas and Iceland, and from continental Europe to North America and New Zealand.

• Bernhard Edmaier, Earthsong. Edition Phaidon Press
  Phaidon Press
  Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...
  
  , 2004.
• Edmaier books and posters