BIG CYPRESS SWAMP: The Western Everglades |
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Books
The book will be ready to ship in December.
Big Cypress Swamp: The Western Everglades measures 9x9.5 with ninety-six pages and sixty-six black and white photographs, including six spreads. Beneath each photograph is a short story of Clyde's adventure capturing the image. The book also contains an Introduction by Joe Browder, who helped save the Big Cypress from development. There will also be a message from Clyde and a poem by Allison Nist. A short history of the Big Cypress Swamp will also be included, along with the adventurous short story of Clyde and Niki's undertaking of building a gallery in the middle of more than a million acres of wilderness in Big Cypress National Preserve. Along with a collection of images of Clyde photographing in Big Cypress Swamp, we are also including some fun background information on Elam Stoltzfus of Live Oak Production Group and his experience making the film Big Cypress Swamp: The Western Everglades. In the book, Big Cypress Swamp: The Western Everglades, Clyde takes us deep into the natural world of south Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park,Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest, Rookery Bay National Estuarine Reserve, and the Ten Thousand Islands. The Big Cypress Swamp Consists of more than 2,400 square miles of richly diverse wilderness of subtropical flora and fauna found nowhere else in our country. It is this exceptional beauty that Clyde Butcher's black and white photographs capture. "The Everglades has always been at the heart of my photography. My first baptism in swamp-water was in the Big Cypress Swamp - the western Everglades - where I felt a primeval presence I had never felt before. It was as though I was entering a time warp where the beginning and ending of time were all combined together in the waters of the swamp...a feeling that we humans are part of a greater whole than we could ever imagine." Clyde Butcher
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