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Louise Tanguay has published over fifteen books over the past twenty years with various publishers as well as on a self-publishing basis.
The two coffee-table books NATURA and FLORA were published in Canada and France in 2003 and 2004 and quickly became best-sellers.

NATURA (in French)

Without filters, special effects or computer retouching, but with the sharp eye of an artist, Louise Tanguay, a great professional image maker, tracks light, shadows, reflections, colours and movements. Through her lens, nature becomes enchantment, poetry. It bewitches readers, fascinates and surprises them. Through her photographs, Louise Tanguay leads us to discover nature as we have never seen it before; nature that is both inspiring and inspired.

Louise Tanguay's extraordinary aesthetic, her sensitivity and love of nature are evident in the pages of this book. Flip through it; lose yourself in her images and text: you will savour the depth and beauty of her personal vision.
 Freeman Patterson, photographer
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Text, photos and design: Louise Tanguay

- size 10" x 13" (25,5 cm x 33 cm)
- hardcover and dust jacket
- 224 pages
​- more than 150 photos 

Published by Éditions de l'Homme​

 FLORA (in French)
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After her acclaimed book NATURA, Louise Tanguay reveals the intimate world of flowers. With a rare sense of composition, she takes us into the multi-coloured universe of tulips, roses, poppies, lilies, dandelions and other beauties of gardens, fields and woods. Whether they have their feet in the water or their heads in the clouds, whether they are delicate or dishevelled, still or in motion, flowers fascinate. Why so? In part, because they remind us of the ephemeral nature of beauty and life. The heart of the flower, flowers in pairs, flowering trees, petals, pistils, stems, veins; the photographer has captured so many forms, lines, curves for our pleasure to contemplate.
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Text, photos and design: Louise Tanguay

- size 10" x 13" (25,5 cm x 33 cm)
- hardcover and dust jacket
- 224 pages
​- more than 150 photos 

Published by Éditions de l'Homme


​The Reford Gardens
Elsie's Paradise
(also available in French)
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For over 50 years, Elsie Reford worked to create her own paradise in Grand-Métis. On the banks of the Mitis River and overlooking the majestic St. Lawrence River, the garden created by Elsie Reford attracts thousands of visitors from around the world. Gardener, fisherwoman, musician, chatelaine, philanthropist, Elsie Reford was one of the great women of her time. Through her writings and letters, Alexander Reford reveals the passions of her great-grandmother. Unpublished photographs by Robert Wilson Reford, Elsie Reford's husband, accompany the photos of a great photographer of gardens and nature, Louise Tanguay.

Text: Alexander Reford
Photographs: Louise Tanguay

- size 8.5" x 8.5" (22 cm x 22 cm)
-soft cover
- 180 pages
- more than 175 photos

​Published by Éditions de l'Homme
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$32.95
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Available at the Reford Gardens online shop


​Treasures of the Reford Gardens Elsie’s  Floral Legacy
(also available in French)
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In this book, a follow-up to Les Jardins de Métis: Elsie Reford's Paradise (2004), the author continues the story of the magnificent gardens founded nearly a century ago in Grand-Métis, Quebec, by his great-grandmother, Elsie Reford. Among the hundreds of plants collected and cultivated by his grandmother, he presents those that she preferred and often mentioned in her gardening journal and in her writings. Reford provides a wealth of historical and horticultural details on exotic plants, such as the blue poppy and the alpine gentian, as well as native species, including woodland ferns and orchids, roses, lilies, peonies, primroses, azaleas, scented apple trees and Canadian bloodroot.

Text: Alexander Reford
Photographs: Louise Tanguay

- size 8.5" x 8.5" (22 cm x 22 cm)
-soft cover
- 180 pages
- more than 175 photos

​Published by Éditions de l'Homme
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$32.95
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Available at the Reford Gardens online shop


​The Reford Gardens
As Time Goes By
Available in French
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To celebrate twenty beautiful years of observation, discovery and pure happiness in the earthly paradise that is the Reford Gardens, Louise created a large mural measuring 12.2 m wide by 1.2 m high (40 x 4 feet). It is installed on the screen fence at the entrance of the site. With more than 500 images in the colors of the color wheel, it illustrates the magic and richness of this internationally renowned horticultural domain. It is entitled As Time Goes By... Imagined in parallel with this mural, this book tells both great and small stories of these places.

Text and photos: Louise Tanguay

- size: 8,25'' x 8,25'' (21 cm x 21 cm)
- hard cover
- 320 pages
- more than 500 photos

Published by Flammarion-Québec

$39.99
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Near & Far (in English)

Near & Far, is a collection of paired photographs that hang in the eighty-one family suites of the Ronald McDonald House in Toronto. Each pair consists of an aerial photograph and a detailed photograph, from locations nearby and from around the world. They are notable for their visual impact and for their interplay of scale, pattern and color. Some are whimsical. All arouse curiosity and wonder. The collection and book are inspired by the hope, strength and resilience of the families who sometimes stay for months at the Manor.

Photos : Louis Helbig, Guy Lavigueur, Louise Tanguay
Concept : Anne Carlyle
Design: Louise Tanguay

- size 13'' x 11'' (click here)     
- size 10'' x 8'' (click here)
- soft or hard cover

Self-published

This book is available online at Blurb.com. where you can preview the entire book.

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​D'est en ouest (in French)

Louise Tanguay has travelled extensively. She has brought back beautiful images from the countries she has visited; candy for the eyes, food for the soul. She invites you to travel with her from east to west, through Namibia, Japan and Hawaii, exploring a variety of subjects: landscapes, fauna, flora, unusual objects and other curiosities.

Photographs and book design: Louise Tanguay

​- sizes 13'' x 11'' (33 cm x 28 cm)
​   ou 10'' x 8'' (25,5 cm x 20 cm)
- hard or soft cover
​- 162 pages
​- 130 photos​  

​Self-published

​Out of stock


​Jewels of Hawai'i (in English)

Hawai'i is well known for many things, including its warm weather and fascinating plants. So where would a nature photographer native to Northern Ontario, Canada, prefer to be during the cold winter months? When Louise Tanguay was invited to spend time in two extraordinary gardens on the south shore of Kaua'i, she discovered more than she expected - a tropical world that goes far beyond the Hawaiian archipelago. Jewels of Hawai'i is an invitation to immerse yourself in this world. With over 90 stunning photographs, this book provides a glimpse into the diversity of plants in breathtaking gardens.

Photographs and design: Louise Tanguay
Texts: Janet Leopold

- size 10'' x 8'' (25,5 cm x 20 cm)
- hard cover with dust jacket or soft cover
- 46 pages
- over 90 photos

Published by the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii


Éphémères (in French)

This book arouses curiosity and questioning since the technique, the subject or the medium used by the artist are not clearly identifiable by the observer. The viewer can be absorbed and intrigued by the abstraction and originality of the works. The artist's gestures and the movements of the fireworks are thus metamorphosed into a series of curves, fine lines, black spots resembling washes and even forms reminiscent of certain elements of the fauna and flora. The result obtained could be similar to engraving or to certain ink techniques from the Japanese artistic tradition. In this respect, it is interesting that the artist's work is similar to ancient techniques while it was made using very current technological tools.

- sizes 13'' x 11'' (33 cm x 28 cm) or (click here) 10'' x 8'' (25,5 cm x 20 cm)
- hard or soft cover
- 72 pages
- 58 photos

Self-published

​ On sale at Blurb (click here)
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​Images du temps qui passe (in French)

Louise Tanguay discovered nature photography in Hearst Ontario in 1969. Forty years later, she presents her native village in an exhibition of over forty images collected over the years. The book Images du temps qui passe, printed in a limited edition of 40 copies only, signed and numbered, is a collection of the photographs that were part of the exhibition presented from September 25 to October 21, 2009.

- 50 pages
- format 12,5'' x 9,5
- hard cover with dust jacket
- sewn binding
- signed and numbered

Self-published, limited numbered edition: $150.00

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Guides to the Gardens of Quebec
(in French and English)

These guides were published on the initiative of the Quebec Garden Association, and present six of the main public gardens of Quebec. Each guide, written by its director, tells the story of the garden and serves as a guide for the visitor. Louise Tanguay's photographs pay tribute to the beauty, harmony and serenity of the gardens.

Domaine Joly-De Lotbinière
Mackenzie-King Estate
Domaine Maizerets
Montreal Botanical Garden
Reford Gardens
Parc du Bois-de-Coulonge

- size 5" x 9" (13 cm x 23 cm)
- 96 pages, soft cover

Published by Fides and Éditions de l'Homme