National Parks Traveler Episode 69: A Conversation With Photographer Clyde Butcher

By NPT Staff - June 7th, 2020

“Good photography is about creating a feeling of things, rather than a picture of things.” That’s the philosophy of our guest, Clyde Butcher, acclaimed photographer and environmentalist. You might be familiar with his iconic black-and-white large format landscape photos that often are part of larger efforts to protect fragile ecosystems that he knows so well. And as Lynn Riddick found out in her conversation with Butcher from his home in Venice, Florida, he doesn’t mind wading chest-deep through a cypress swamp or facing off against a hoofed animal to show why a place is worth protecting.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:16 Spring Fever - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Everglades
2:04 Friends of Acadia promotion
2:32 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
3:05 Lynn Riddick discusses landscape photography with Clyde Butcher.
19:14 Torch - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Everglades
19:27 National Parks Traveler promotion
19:40 North Cascades Institute promotion
19:59 Grand Teton National Park Foundation promotion
20:31 Washington’s National Park Fund promotion
21:10 Lynn's interview with Clyde Butcher continues
40:40 Almost Home - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
41:01 Episode Closing
41:21 Orange Tree Productions promotion
41:56 National Parks Traveler footer

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