Chesapeake
Nearly 10,000 years ago, rising sea levels filled a meteor-impact crater to form the Chesapeake Bay, North America's largest estuary, and the world's third largest. The long tendrils of the Bay's watershed cover 64,000 square miles and span six states from Virginia to New York, holding 17 million people within its boundaries. There are more than 100,000 streams, creeks, or rivers in the watershed, including 150 major rivers, with names that conjure, such as the Susquehanna, Potomac, Shenandoah, Nanticoke, Patapsco, Mattaponi, Pamumkey, York, and Rappahannock.
For centuries, these waters mixed with Atlantic Ocean backwash to make a brackish estuary and an ecological superconductor. The Chesapeake was alive with crabs, sturgeon, and rockfish. Oysters grew on oysters, in reefs so big they broke the surface of the water. The bay's bounty, which helped sustain Native Americans for centuries, seemed endless.
But the Bay has been under constant siege for most of the last century. Man's ever-increasing presence of population and industry increasingly impact this national treasure.
Cameron Davidson has been shooting aerial photography of the Chesapeake for over twenty years. This privileged vantage point reveals man's impact on the land and the water. Abstract beauty comes from a view that is seldom seen: the changing seasons traced from the headwaters of the Susquehanna at Lake Ostego in Cooperstown, New York, to the mouth of the bay at Virginia Beach, as well as the important marshlands and islands of the watershed. Davidson's poetic pictures bear witness to the bay's vulnerability and the fragility of its future.
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For centuries, these waters mixed with Atlantic Ocean backwash to make a brackish estuary and an ecological superconductor. The Chesapeake was alive with crabs, sturgeon, and rockfish. Oysters grew on oysters, in reefs so big they broke the surface of the water. The bay's bounty, which helped sustain Native Americans for centuries, seemed endless.
But the Bay has been under constant siege for most of the last century. Man's ever-increasing presence of population and industry increasingly impact this national treasure.
Cameron Davidson has been shooting aerial photography of the Chesapeake for over twenty years. This privileged vantage point reveals man's impact on the land and the water. Abstract beauty comes from a view that is seldom seen: the changing seasons traced from the headwaters of the Susquehanna at Lake Ostego in Cooperstown, New York, to the mouth of the bay at Virginia Beach, as well as the important marshlands and islands of the watershed. Davidson's poetic pictures bear witness to the bay's vulnerability and the fragility of its future.
Chesapeake
Nearly 10,000 years ago, rising sea levels filled a meteor-impact crater to form the Chesapeake Bay, North America's largest estuary, and the world's third largest. The long tendrils of the Bay's watershed cover 64,000 square miles and span six states from Virginia to New York, holding 17 million people within its boundaries. There are more than 100,000 streams, creeks, or rivers in the watershed, including 150 major rivers, with names that conjure, such as the Susquehanna, Potomac, Shenandoah, Nanticoke, Patapsco, Mattaponi, Pamumkey, York, and Rappahannock.
For centuries, these waters mixed with Atlantic Ocean backwash to make a brackish estuary and an ecological superconductor. The Chesapeake was alive with crabs, sturgeon, and rockfish. Oysters grew on oysters, in reefs so big they broke the surface of the water. The bay's bounty, which helped sustain Native Americans for centuries, seemed endless.
But the Bay has been under constant siege for most of the last century. Man's ever-increasing presence of population and industry increasingly impact this national treasure.
Cameron Davidson has been shooting aerial photography of the Chesapeake for over twenty years. This privileged vantage point reveals man's impact on the land and the water. Abstract beauty comes from a view that is seldom seen: the changing seasons traced from the headwaters of the Susquehanna at Lake Ostego in Cooperstown, New York, to the mouth of the bay at Virginia Beach, as well as the important marshlands and islands of the watershed. Davidson's poetic pictures bear witness to the bay's vulnerability and the fragility of its future.
For centuries, these waters mixed with Atlantic Ocean backwash to make a brackish estuary and an ecological superconductor. The Chesapeake was alive with crabs, sturgeon, and rockfish. Oysters grew on oysters, in reefs so big they broke the surface of the water. The bay's bounty, which helped sustain Native Americans for centuries, seemed endless.
But the Bay has been under constant siege for most of the last century. Man's ever-increasing presence of population and industry increasingly impact this national treasure.
Cameron Davidson has been shooting aerial photography of the Chesapeake for over twenty years. This privileged vantage point reveals man's impact on the land and the water. Abstract beauty comes from a view that is seldom seen: the changing seasons traced from the headwaters of the Susquehanna at Lake Ostego in Cooperstown, New York, to the mouth of the bay at Virginia Beach, as well as the important marshlands and islands of the watershed. Davidson's poetic pictures bear witness to the bay's vulnerability and the fragility of its future.
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| BN ID: | 2940014274074 |
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| Publisher: | Paraculture Books |
| Publication date: | 03/16/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 152 |
| File size: | 13 MB |
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