Florida Wild

Mar 3, 2020

How This Photo Solved a Years-Long Mystery

I set up base camp at the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge on the edge of the Fakahatchee Strand. It was summer 2016, and I was just beginning my Path of the Panther project with the National Geographic Society. In an effort to photograph elusive panthers, I was building custom-made camera traps—professional DSLR cameras and […]

Photographs and field notes by Carlton Ward Jr. capturing moments of Florida’s nature and culture that are often hiding in plain sight

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