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Marshes: The Disappearing Edens
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Marshes: The Disappearing Edens
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February 16 - May 11, 2008
Few environments on earth pack in such living treasure as the marsh….. yet few of us know what those treasures are, how beautiful they are, and how rich and beautiful the marsh itself. The marsh remains unknown, mysterious, concealing. Who knows what lurks out there among the stems and shadows and interstices? What birds build nests, what flowers grow, what unseen beauty lies?
Now, after 30 years of prowling marshes with big cameras, one man is prepared to show us: William Burt, photographer and writer for Smithsonian, Audubon, National Wildlife and other magazines, and author of two distinguished books on birds: Shadowbirds (1994), and Rare & Elusive Birds of North America (2001).
Burt has prowled in marshes of all kinds, day and night alike, all over North America, photographing the shy birds and other creatures and the lyric details of the marsh itself, and he now brings the best of his three decades’ work together in a book, and a new exhibition: Marshes: The Disappearing Edens.
This beautiful exhibition is packed full of treasure and surprise, just like the book - and like the marsh itself. It gives glimpses of a world we seldom wander, and elusive creatures most of us will never see. Bird lovers, flower lovers, picture lovers – art and nature lovers of all kinds – will explore it with wide eyes.
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