Photographer Carlton Ward Jr., who’s gone about as deep into the inhospitable Everglades as any person on earth, has only seen the elusive Florida panther, live and in the flesh, on two or three occasions.
His photographs, however, give us intimate firsthand knowledge of the endangered big cat. Ward, an eighth-generation Floridian and longtime bay area resident, uses movement-activated trigger cameras, camouflaged deep in the swamps and forests of the “River of Grass,” to gather images of the panthers as they move about their natural range.
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