At nearly 1.4 million acres, the Atchafalaya Basin in south
central Louisiana comprises America's largest swamp wilderness.
Award-winning nature photographer C. C. Lockwood is the foremost
chronicler of this natural treasure. What began as a curious
side-trip in 1973 became a decades-long love affair, and for more
than thirty years, Lockwood has explored the Atchafalaya's waters
and captured its haunting beauty on film. Now, twenty-five years
after the publication of his first book, he returns to his favorite
subject in C. C. Lockwood's Atchafalaya. His passion for the
Atchafalaya as expressed in his photographs can be compared to John
James Audubon's exuberant appreciation for the state's abundant
bird life as depicted in his prints more than 150 years ago. The
art of both exalts Louisiana's wildlife -- and cautions against
taking it for granted.
Lockwood revisits and reflects on the places he has frequented
most in the swamp, recalling his escapades both long past and
recent among gators and skeeters. He shares the thoughts of basin
residents about how the Atchafalaya has changed over time, for
better and for worse. Increases and decreases in various bird and
other animal populations, changes in water levels and consistency,
flora mainstays and trees gone missing, burgeoning aquatic
vegetation -- all are keenly observed by this explorer. Lockwood
finds undiminished the seductive seasonal and diurnal moods of the
swamp: autumn and spring, sunset and moonrise, as breathtaking now
as in the past.
In nearly one-hundred dazzling color photographs, Lockwood
brilliantly documents the Atchafalaya's timeless beauty. He shows
amazingly diverse and abundant wildlife, rookeries with thousands
of egrets and herons, waters with billions of crawfish, and ridges
with deer, squirrel, and woodcock. Waters run deep in Lockwood's
soul, as evidenced in his intimate treatment of the meandering
bayous fringed with bald cypress trees, the many glassy lakes
reflecting vegetation into double images, and the mighty
Atchafalaya River -- the lifeline of the swamp.
"No place in the world gives me such a feeling of peace as
America's largest river basin swamp," writes Lockwood. In these
pages, he pays homage to the queen of U.S. wetlands.
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