After university, Butcher worked in architectural modeling and photography, eventually moving into color landscape photography with commercial ambitions. He sold images to wall-decor departments of major retail chains such as Sears and J.C. Penney, building a sizeable business with hundreds of employees.    During this phase he traveled widel

Clyde Butcher is a landmark figure in American landscape photography, especially known for his expansive black-and-white images of Florida’s wild places. His work spans decades, shifting from commercial photography to a deeply personal, conservation-oriented practice rooted in the swamps, cypress domes, and marshes of the Everglades and Big Cypre

What continues to draw people to Big Cypress Midway Campground is not convenience, but authenticity. It offers no swimming pools, playgrounds, or Wi-Fi — only the song of crickets, the scent of pine, and the reflection of stars on still water. In a sense, the campground functions as a time capsule, preserving a way of experiencing nature that

Campfires at Midway have long been a source of storytelling. Visitors share legends of the swamp — tales of hidden panthers, ghost lights, and old Gladesmen who vanished into the cypress shadows. These stories, passed from generation to generation, preserve the folklore of Big Cypress. They remind listeners that the wilderness holds both myste