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Natural Virginia

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A century ago, legendary photographer Edward Curtis set about to capture the traditional world of Native Americans before that world vanished. Now, Ben Greenberg has done the same for the natural areas of Virginia. Devoted to preserving and celebrating Virginia’s diverse but every now and then threatened natural richness, Greenberg has spent years creating a number of multiple hundred stunning images that range from the Commonwealth’s most well-known to its rarely explored landscapes. By framing all of these photographs―whether of the Shenandoah Valley in full fall blaze or of Tidewater piers in the afterglow of sunset―as panoramas, Greenberg heightens the drama and immediacy of the moment, forging a long lasting composite portrait that captures Virginia’s natural heritage and on the same time reminds us of its fragility.

Natural Virginia divides the state into three regions: the Tidewater, Piedmont, and the Western mountains and valleys. The images in each and every, whether of a great blue heron emerging from river mists or of an almost leafless autumnal tree on Skyline Drive, convey a sense of grandeur whilst concurrently inviting the viewer in to the intimacy of the settings, as though one could possibly smell the musk of the salt flats or to feel the brush of the fall wind. The photographs highlight the wide-ranging diversity of the Commonwealth’s national and state parks, flora and fauna refuges and management areas, their rivers, lakes, mountains, and wild creatures. Deane Dozier’s introductory essays to each and every region offer further insight into the geography and geology of Virginia.

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