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• @natgeo contributor and Explorer • @ted speaker and author • Protecting wild places @naturalandtrust

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#oldgrowthforest #cypress #photography #outdoorgallery #corkscrewswampsanctuary

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Mac Stone has spent nearly two decades photographing the South’s last old-growth cypress swamps — places he compares to the Mona Lisa. “They’re the benchmark for how these forests looked,” he told us. “Before you book any other trip, go see them.” We talked with Mac about his new book, CYPRESS, why one great tree isn’t a forest, and how he makes “creepy-crawly” swamp life look like awe. Read the full Q&A at the link in bio. 📷 : @macstonephoto 04 Nov 2026

📣New Exhibit at @corkscrewswamp 📣 60 large prints line the boardwalk that winds beneath the ancient canopy and wetlands in one of the most spectacular forests on the planet. The images are from my new book CYPRESS: The Last Old Growth Swamps. The exhibit will run through March 2027. This is an installation I have long dreamed about, marrying art and nature, and I couldn’t be happier with the result. A special thank you to the 5BAW who made it possible: Ellin Goetz, Mary Barley, Nancy DeLisi, Katie Sproul, Donna Hall and @ilcp_photographers. And to the Audubon staff and volunteers who helped fabricate the mounts and install the prints: Gio Dachiardi, Gary Dorrough, Steve Simpson, Wayne Grasseth and Randy Shaffer. 🙏🙏 03 Nov 2026

Happy Halloween from the swamp! Thanks to @rachel_nuwer for help with the spooky lighting while wandering around @beidlerforest at night 31 Oct 2026

CYPRESS books are shipping! Thank you all for your orders. This desk will now be my home for the next several days 😅 If you’ve received yours, let me know! Signed copies are available at my website. And yes, I hold the pen like a t-Rex. 05 Oct 2026

Set beneath the living canopy of Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary’s ancient cypress forest, an outdoor exhibit by National Geographic Explorer and photographer Mac Stone brings large-format photography into the landscape that inspired it. On view from October 27 through March 31, 2027, it features more than 50 prints mounted along the Sanctuary’s iconic boardwalk. The exhibition transforms a traditional gallery experience into an immersive walk through one of America’s last great old-growth cypress swamps and is included with admission. Corkscrew members are invited to be the first to experience the new exhibition and to hear Stone speak during our annual Member Swamp Social on October 26. Stone will have signed copies of his new book, Cypress: The Last Old-Growth Swamps, available for purchase during the event. Find the link in our bio to join us for this unique event. Photo: @macstonephoto #oldgrowthforest #cypress #photography #outdoorgallery #corkscrewswampsanctuary 02 Oct 2026

Years ago, SeaLegacy co-founder Cristina Mittermeier had an idea: bring together some of the best photographers and filmmakers working in ocean conservation and give them one shared platform to speak from. That became The SeaLegacy Collective. SeaLegacy is proud to be partnering with @ilcp_photographers to revive The Collective as a collaboration by our two organizations. Together, SeaLegacy and the iLCP have brought this initiative back to showcase what’s actually happening in our oceans, through a global network of storytellers who are witnessing it firsthand. Today we are introducing the first 6 members of The Collective. Swipe through to meet them and see their work! Photo by @shinalodon Under a starry sky, a field of robust staghorn corals (Acropora robusta) emerges briefly from the water in the shallow reef during a spring tide, exposed to the cool night air at Koh Bulon Lae Island, Mu Koh Phetra National Park, Satun, Thailand. Corals in the intertidal zone can withstand short periods of exposure by secreting a protective mucus layer, reducing stress from desiccation and high temperatures. Reefs like these were once more common along the Andaman coast, but are now increasingly rare after decades of anthropogenic impacts from coastal development and climate change have degraded large areas of shallow reef habitats. Photo by @justingilligan This image was made during a brief 40-minute window when the tide and conditions finally aligned - a small window of opportunity when Marine Park Officer Caitlin Woods found a moment of tranquillity beneath the surface of Lord Howe Island. For me, this lush seaweed forest feels almost like an underwater Eden. It’s easy to become absorbed in the beauty of a place like this, but spending time underwater also makes you increasingly aware of how much is happening within these seemingly simple habitats. Seaweed forests provide shelter and food for an extraordinary diversity of marine life, while also playing an important role in carbon cycling and the health of coastal ecosystems. They are a reminder that some of the most valuable environments can be easy to overlook. Lord Howe Island is often described as one of t 01 Oct 2026

The September issue of @natgeo follows one of the great migrations along the southeastern coast: millions of striped mullet moving from the Carolinas down the Florida coast toward their fall spawning grounds. Written by @boyceu, the story explores the important role these fish play in the food web of the Everglades and coastal ecosystems. Photographing them meant spending a lot of time in the water, trying to keep up with schools moving like a single frantic organism. More than a few times, the combination of thousands of flashing fish, breaking waves and nauseating swell scrambled my brain and I ended up chumming the water myself. Huge thanks to my editor @afarrar for bringing this story to National Geographic readers and to the @evergladesfoundation for supporting the coverage. And thank you to my captains @capt_brianesposito and @capt_jonpaul, and the pilots at @hmchelicopters, for helping put me in the right place at the right time. 20 Sep 2026

Like some kind of southern Eden, North Carolina’s Black River stands apart with its white sands, tannic water and ancient groves. Shaped by millennia of violent storms, fire, floods and drought, these trees are the ultimate survivors. Where their crowns were blown off by high winds and hollowed by decay from the inside, they continue to grow and thrive. It’s speculated that their elegant senescence is actually what saved them—they were too old and gnarled to be worth logging. Although many of these trees are hollow and impossible to age, several with intact piths were dated to be over 2,000 years by Dr Dave Stahle from the University of Arkansas, making it the oldest swamp on the planet and now protected by @tnc_nc. Image excerpt from my new book CYPRESS: The Last Old Growth Swamps. 19 Sep 2026

Thank you to all of you who placed an order for CYPRESS, I’m blown away! 🙏🙏🙏 I’ll get to signing and shipping as soon as I can. One of the best parts of working on a project like this is getting to nerd out over all the small stories that make these old-growth forests unique. One of those features is what’s called a “tip-up mound.” Tip-up mounds form when trees are uprooted, leaving behind a pit where the root ball once was and a mound of exposed soil that slowly settles and decomposes over time. What’s really interesting is that foresters looking to replicate the complexity of mature forests are now intentionally pushing over trees to create this same kind of habitat. Old-growth forests teach us so much. At @beidlerforest, tip-up mounds are also important foraging grounds for nine-banded armadillos, which root through the loose soil in search of grubs, larvae and other invertebrates. I love armadillos, so this relationship gave me a good excuse to try to light up their nocturnal world, though sometimes the weather got the best of my equipment. One strobe and trigger lost to the rain was worth getting that backlight to pop through the hole beneath the fallen tree, I think. Here are a few pics of the various setups I tried. 17 Sep 2026

I’m very excited to share my new book, CYPRESS: The Last Old-Growth Swamps, nearly ten years in the making. Across 216 pages and 144 photographs, published by @floridapress, the book takes readers into four of my favorite places on the planet—ancient cypress forests that have survived centuries of logging, development, and change. Through photographs and essays, CYPRESS explores these remarkable places, the wildlife and people connected to them, and the extraordinary stories that unfold beneath their canopies. Photographing these forests over the last decade has been one of my greatest joys and has brought me closer to a family of passionate people working to protect and steward their future. @beidlerforest @corkscrewswamp @tnc_nc @congareenps I can’t wait to finally share this work with you. You can purchase signed copies from my website or get them wherever books are sold. Layout and design by the talented @hannahdstone 16 Sep 2026

Here’s a wild thing to think about. Of the estimated 40,000,000 acres of virgin cypress forests that used to dominate the blackwater arteries, lakes and floodplains of the southeastern US, all but roughly 10,000 acres were industrially logged by the mid-20th century. Ten thousand out of 40 million is less than one tenth of one percent (0.1%). That’s what’s left of the old southern swamps. It kills me to think how the Mobile Basin, Atchafalaya, Mississippi Delta, Great Dismal, Okefenokee, Big Cypress and Winyah Basin once looked. We don’t have much to draw on, but what we do have is incredible, rare and inspiring. The pockets of old growth cypress forests that remain are because of extraordinary philanthropy, heroic conservation vision and a shared view that these ecosystems are worth far more than just board feet of lumber. For the last ten years, I’ve been trying to uncover and reveal some of the magic that four of these ancient stands hold: @corkscrewswamp, @congareenps , @beidlerforest and Black River, NC managed by @tnc_nc 14 Sep 2026

I had no idea that Alabama was going to take my breath away so thoroughly until @wesovervold and I traversed the state for @nature_org magazine. If you’ve been around me for at least 15 minutes in the last year, you already know this, because I won’t shut up about it. Alabama was a true surprise. Given my childhood home and allegiance to the Gators, it’s a big hurdle to say anything nice about the birthplace of agony for so many other SEC teams. But over the course of two weeks, I shot 26,000 photos and came away with a completely new appreciation for this small state and the astonishing amount of life packed within its borders. We photographed it underwater, from planes, in caves, on Class IV rapids, and among bogs, swamps, forests, and islands. Everywhere we went, the landscape seemed to change—and with it, the species that called it home. Alabama reinforced a lesson I keep learning over and over again: the South is unrivaled in its complexity, beauty, and biological importance. Some of the most extraordinary places are the ones we think we already know. 03 Sep 2026

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