de Couet, Heinz-Gert & Green, Andrew: Manual of Underwater Photography, Wiesbaden, Verlag Christa Hemmen, 1989. Theory, equipment and basic and advanced techniques.

Gibson, Lou: Close-Up Photography & Photomacrography, Rochester, Eastman Kodak, 1975. A well illustrated survey of these topics with lots of unusual but useful techniques.

Jackson, Ross: Basic Scientific Photography, Ottawa: Department of Agriculture, 1982. A small guide which covers many esoteric areas of scientific photography.

Langford, Michael: Basic Photography, London: Focal Press, 1986. A general introduction to cameras, lighting, film, processing and printing.

Mertens, Lawrence E.: In-Water Photography, New York, Wiley-Interscience, 1970. Topics include transmission of light in water, image contrast, biological aspects of light, lenses and camera housings and dive techniques.

Vetter, John Paul: Biomedical Photography, Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992. Papers by 24 authors on every aspect of biological and biomedical photography.

White, William, ed.: Photomacrography, An Introduction, London: Focal Press, 1987. A collection of papers on photomacrography including camera systems, illumination, and high speed photography.

Häder, Donat-P. ed: Image Analysis in Biology, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1992. Articles include quantitative area measurement, single photo imaging, digital filters, image analysis, three dimensional reconstruction and movement analysis.

Murray, J. & vanRyper, W.: Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats. Sebastpol, CA, O'Reilly & Assoc., 1994. Detailed explanation of most file formats used for images along with their header structure.

Russ, John C.: The Image Processing Handbook 3rd ed., Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1999. Digital techniques for corecting image defects, image enhancement, segmentation, tomography and three-dimensional imaging.

Sedgewick, Gerald: Quick Photoshop for Research: A Guide to Digital Imaging for Photoshop 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002. Photoshop just for science.

Sharma, Gaurav, ed: Digital Color Imaging, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2003. A collection of papers on color, color models, compression, gamut mapping, and image processing.

Cox, Guy: Optical Imaging Techniques in Cell Biology: Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2007. An overview of techniques, primarliy microscopy related, including fluorescence, confocal, deconvolution, GFP, FLIM and FRET.

Delly, John: Photography Through the Microscope, Rochester: Eastman Kodak, 1988. An inexpensive guide to photomicrography which includes an introduction to the microscope, brief discussions of fluorescence and Nomarski, and lots about photography.

Diaspro, Alberto, ed.: Confocal and Two-Photon Microscopy: Foundations, Applications and Advances New York, Wiley, 2001. Covers techniques for biology, medicine, physics, engineering, and chemistry, including industrial applications and discusses new and emerging imaging technology, developmental trends, and fluorescent molecules.

Herman, B.: Fluorescent Microscopy, 2nd ed. Oxford, Bios/Springer, 1998, One of a series of small but useful handbooks published by the Royal Microscopical Society.

Hibbs, Alan R.: Confocal Microscopy for Biologists, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2004. Complete introduction to confocal microscopy, including hardware and software with sections on specific instruments.

Inoue, Shinya: Video Microscopy, 2nd ed., New York: Plenum Press, 1997. a major book covering techniques in "electronic" microscopy.

Klosevych, Stanley: Microscopy and Scientific Photography, Ottawa: Canadian Microscopical Society, 1989. A collection of papers about the importance of cover slip thickness, collector lenses, fluorescence, and translucent material photographed at low power.

Lacey, Alan J.: Light Microscopy in Biology, Oxford: IRL Press, 1989. A collection of papers on topics which include inducing contrast, imunohistochemistry, fluorescence, video microscopy and micrometry.

Loveland, Roger: Photomicrography, a Comprehensive Treatise, New York: John Wiley, 1970. While not quite state of the art by now, this two volume work is still the best source of detailed information.

Mason, W.T.: Fluorescent and Luminescent Probes for Biological Activity, London: Academic Press, 1993 a vital reference to many analysis techniques including probes and imaging stratagies.

Matsumoto, Brian, ed.: Cell Biological Applications of Confocal Microscopy, San Deigo, Academic Press, 1993. Subjects include rapid scanning, image accuracy, multicolour laser illumination, potentiometric dyes, immunofluorescence and thick tissue.

Paddock, Stephen W. ed.: Confocal Microscopy: Methods and Protocols, Totowa: Humana Press, 1999. Sections include probes, gene expression, FISH, confocal microscopy of plant and yeast cells.

Pawley, James B. ed.: Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy 3rd ed., New York, Springer, 2006. Chapters include limits on resolution, pixilated images, illumination and image quality, laser and non laser sources, maping of surfaces, 3-D reconstruction and deconvolution.

Periasamy, Ammasi ed.: Methods in Cellular Imaging, New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. A great collection of papers on many modern techniques for cellular imaging.

Ploem, J.S. & Tanke, H.J.: Introduction to Fluorescence Microsacopy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987. Another of the Royal Microscopical Society handbooks, this one an introduction to the theory of fluorescence microscopy

Pluta, Maksymilian: Advanced Light Microscopy, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1989. The most modern full treatment, in three volumes. It has good optical theory on the basics as well as phase, amplitude and differential contrast.

Russ, John C.: Computer Assisted Microscopy, New York, Plenum Press, 1990. A major book on measurement and analysis of microscopical images.

Sheppard, C.J.R. & Shotten, D.M.: Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy, Oxford, Bios/Springer, 1997. Another of the Royal Microscopical Society handbooks, this one an introduction to confocal laser scanning microscopy.

Shotton, David: Electronic Light Microscopy, New York, Wiley-Liss, 1993. Techniques of video-enhanced contrast, digital intensified fluorescence and confocal scanning microscopy.

Taatjes, Douglas & Mossman, Brooke, ed.: Cell Imaging Techniques, Totowa, Humana Press, 2006. Comprehensive

Wilson, T. ed.: Confocal Microscopy, London, Academic Press, 1990. A collection of articles on both the theory and applied techniques involved in confocal microscopy.

Wood, Phylis: Scientific Illustration, New York: Van Nostrand, 1979. Especially good for its section on designing and making posters.

Zweifel, Frances: A Handbook of Biological Illustration, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Much useful information on freehand drawing, graphs and maps lettering, art materials and techniques in a smaller handbook.

Simmonds, Doig, ed.: Charts & Graphs, Lancaster: MTP Press, 1980. A short work on the visual presentation of statistical data for the life sciences with useful appendicies on flow chart and chemical symbols.

Tufte, Edward: Envisioning Information, Cheshire: Graphics Press, 1983. This continues from the next title but broadens graphic representation to non-numeric issues including the representation of three dimensions, time and movement, and the use of colour.

Tufte, Edward: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Cheshire: Graphics Press, 1990. Tufte searches for graphic excellence especially through the elimination of chartjunk and the maximization of the data to ink ratio and of data density.

Pratt, Dan & Ropes, Lev: 35-mm Slides: A Manual for Technical Presentations, Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1978. A short but useful guide with sections on slides, design, graphs, maps and other types of graphics used in science.

Reynolds, Linda & Simmonds, Doig: Presentation of Data in Science, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. Especially good on type legibility, the formatting of tables, the use of video and slide/tape productions.