Photographer Mac Stone’s Journey to Document Florida’s Wetlands

Ennobling the Everglades

A snail kite hunts for apple snails in the Florida Everglades. The Everglades snail kite is the most specialized raptor in the world, and was also one of Mac Stone's most challenging subjects. Mac Stone

When it comes to his beloved Everglades, photographer Mac Stone doesn’t like the word “fragile.” The Florida wetlands may be imperiled by pollution and development, but they are also, he argues, resilient.

Cattle egrets fill the leafless tree in a large rookery, on a foggy morning in Four Holes Swamp, S.C. Mac Stone