Clyde Butcher

We first got a taste of Clyde Butcher's large format black and white photographs of the swamp at the Corkscrew exhibit we perused while waiting for a deluge to end.    I can not describe the beauty, detail and haunting nature of these 40 x 60 inch images.  Discovering that he used to live near here and has a gallery there just east on 41, we set out after our morning kayak in Halfway Creek Bay with it's  own dolphin herding fish show.  Entering the gallery, we found ourselves in an amazing world of images of Florida from Big Talbot island, the Keys and Ten Thousand Islands to the swamp.   We finished our afternoon and last day in one of his favorite places, Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk in Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park.