holding still
florida  ·  flora  ·  fauna
a practice in patience
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Ludwig Stiller
The photographer crouched at the water's edge in the Everglades, watching an alligator across the marsh

I'm not much of a presence. The photography is mostly waiting — finding a place worth standing in and going still, long enough that the place forgets I'm watching.

That patience is the whole method: the stillness that startles nothing, and the moment the world seems to pause and let itself be seen.

Everything here is wild Florida, photographed where it lives — each subject named, with a little note on how it gets by. The more you know a thing, the harder it is to look away.

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”— Mary Oliver
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