Our guest this week has many descriptors, humanitarian, conservationist, fine art large format photographer, book publisher, lecturer, legendary photographer and national treasure.
Clyde Butcher has been making photographs for over 60 years, the last 35 in Big Cypress National Park which is in the Western Everglades of Florida State.
Clyde’s stunning 8ft wide darkroom prints are made to fully immerse the viewer and communicate on a level to help raise awareness of the fragility of this endangered landscape.
Thank you Clyde for finding the time to talk with us.
 
Clyde’s links 
Clyde’s website is a great place to find out more
https://clydebutcher.com/
 
Clyde is on IG
https://www.instagram.com/clydebutcher/
 
and on FB
https://www.facebook.com/clydebutcher/
 
 
Things we chatted about on the show:
 
Simon and Clyde got off to a great start with a slight disagreement about the origins of something called a Flektogon, Klingon or Emperor Ming, I can’t really recall to be honest.
 
Simon of course couldn’t admit defeat so later came up with this article which demonstrated that they were both right, apparently.
https://casualphotophile.com/2019/04/02/zeiss-flektogon-lens-review/?fbclid=IwAR0bIZVpJTceea6uJ0KmupZwygqeCDfO7ngphngQU3pTsukkihMAMNKgxSY
 
Simon and I both missed the presentation that Clyde made this week at the B&H Optic 2020 – here is a YouTube link to hear Clyde and see his work.
https://casualphotophile.com/2019/04/02/zeiss-flektogon-lens-review/?fbclid=IwAR0bIZVpJTceea6uJ0KmupZwygqeCDfO7ngphngQU3pTsukkihMAMNKgxSY
 
We both continued to demonstrate our ignorance when we admitted to not knowing who Jerry Uelsmann was.
https://www.all-about-photo.com/photographers/photographer/105/jerry-uelsmann
 
Clyde mentioned Everglade photographer Oscar Thompson.
https://evergladesonline.com/photos-oscar.htm
 
 
 
Other News
The inaugural LFPP Gathering in the forest 2020 was cancelled but you can catch up with the virtual meeting we had recently where we were honoured to have Dave Shrimpton and Kate Miller-Wilson present their work and ideas to over 20 of us on line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQQtnpFib8s&t=113s
 
You can see Dave and Kates work on IG
 
https://www.instagram.com/dave_shrimpton/
https://www.instagram.com/katemillerwilson/
 
 
And….
 
Much to Simon’s dismay the Six Towns Darkroom remains in lock down for the time being.
 
 
 
 
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