ENTRY DESCRIPTION
2005
St. Vincent Island, Florida
5"x7" Deardroff View Camera
210mm Symmar S lens
Kodak TMAX100 film
I spent many hours photographing different landscape compositions on wonderful St. Vincent Island. At one point I took a break from the Florida heat in the shade of a tree. At that point I noticed the beauty and texture contained in this wonderful piece of driftwood, I was fascinated by all the subtitles contained within this one simple artifact. It just goes to show you that beauty is everywhere it's just a matter of slowing down to see it.

AUTHOR
Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. When my son was killed by a drunken driver, it was to the wilderness that I fled in hopes of regaining my serenity and equilibrium. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to nature helped restore my soul. It was during that time I discovered the intimate beauty of the environment.
My experience reinforced my sense of dedication to use my art form, photography, to show people that there is a unity between all undisturbed natural places, whether a peak of a renowned mountain range or a stream-bed in an urban watershed. My hope is to educate…to let people know our land is a special place and to inspire others to work together to save nature’s places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations.
-Clyde Butcher

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