Photographers Linda and Robert Scarth have an incredible eye for that magic moment when small becomes beautiful. Matched with patience and skill, their eye for magic produces dazzling images of 海角乱伦社区nature up close. Revealing the miniature beauties hidden among the patches of prairie, woodland, and wetland that remain in Iowa鈥檚 sadly overdeveloped landscape, the seventy-five color photographs in Deep Nature give us a breathtaking cross section of the state鈥檚 smallest inhabitants.
The Scarths鈥 close-up images of showy orchis and northern monkshood, great spangled fritillary and painted lady, red-breasted nuthatch and eastern wood-pewee, ornate box turtle and gray treefrog, big bluestem and cotton-grass, and many other natural wonders look more like paintings than photographs. Beginning with an iridescent fly hovering over a neon-purple fringed gentian and ending with their iconic image of coneflowers refracted in dewdrops, they have created a sparkling jewel box of images that will make us look at the small world around us with renewed appreciation.
Attending to the small things in the fabric of nature is the Scarths鈥 source of artistic inspiration. Taking Walt Whitman鈥檚 鈥渆very leaf is a miracle鈥 as their beginning, they celebrate not only each leaf but each feather, insect, dewdrop, flower, lichen, and intricate organism in the evolving web of life.
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鈥淰ibrant, full of life, and beautifully composed, Linda and Robert Scarth鈥檚 photography shows the side of 海角乱伦社区I never knew existed. Accompanied by deeply personal, evocative text by the ecologist John Pearson, this book celebrates a rarely seen facet of the American Midwest.鈥濃 Piotr Naskrecki, author, The Smaller Majority
鈥淎 sense of place, the beauty of remnant nature in the Midwest鈥攆ar more abundant, varied, and enticing than one might think鈥攖hese are the rewards offered by this lovely volume with its sensitive, graceful prose and sensitive but vivid images of the life that survives in abundance and enriches our lives when we stop to enjoy it. Highly recommended for all who care or who would like to learn more, and more deeply, about this marvelous planet that we call home.鈥濃擯eter H. Raven, president, Missouri Botanical Garden
