Ibis, Big Cypress National Preserve, Ochopee, Florida. [Photo: DFG Hailson]
Category: National Parks
Celebrating America’s National Parks Honored with 2017 IPA Award
Two years ago today, I was celebrating the fact that I’d completed 35 chapters and an 11-page Notes section for Celebrating America’s National Parks, a book on which I was collaborating with photographer Clyde Butcher and designer David Griffin. I had just the last little bits to edit and all the pages to proof and then I would be on to trimming the tree. I’ve just learned that the book (released in 2016) has placed first in the category “Professional Book–Nature” in the 2017 International Photography Awards Competition.
Celebrating America’s National Parks is the second book I’ve written that has received an award. The first was one I co-authored: The Goddess Revival: A Biblical Response to God(dess) Spirituality (reprinted in 2010). That volume was honored as a Christianity Today Book of the Year.
Celebrating America’s National Parks
Celebrating America’s National Parks, a book on which I collaborated with Florida-based photographer, Clyde Butcher (his images, my words) was released in 2016.
This volume features parks ranging from Maine’s Acadia to Alaska’s Denali to Florida’s Everglades. Shared alongside Clyde’s images, that he captured over a span of 50 years, are the fascinating details I discovered on the histories and heroes, flora and fauna, landscapes and legends of each of the included parks. In these pages, readers learn about the most sublime of earthly spectacles, that is the Grand Canyon, the hoodoo-iferous terrain that is found in Bryce Canyon, and much more.
BOOK DETAILS: Size: 9″ X 9 1/2″, Pages: 192, Reproduction: quad-tone, Images: 108 Full Page, 16 Double Page Spreads.
Also available is a limited edition collector’s set, a signed and numbered run of 250 with a silver gelatin print of the 8 ½” X 5” “Moon Over the Tetons.”
An Apology, Some News and An Invitation
I apologize for neglecting this blog in recent days. I’ve been holed up writing and editing but will soon resume posting on this site.
Big Cypress Swamp: The Western Everglades, a book I edited, has just been released, and The National Parks, a book on which I collaborated with photographer Clyde Butcher (his photographs, my words), will be released in 2016. On the new Donna F G Hailson Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/donnafghailson/), I’ll be posting articles; blog links; book updates; announcements re speaking engagements; and previews from The Rockery, the next book on which I’ll be focusing. I hope you’ll visit the Donna F G Hailson Facebook page, enjoy what you find there, “like” the page, and share it with others.
Featured image: The Great Florida Marsh by Martin Johnson Heade (1886)
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