Combining his passion for flying, his abiding love for the Chesapeake Bay, and his compulsion to record what he sees–even if it means hanging out the window of a sharply banked single-engine plane–Cameron Davidson has created a magic carpet ride of a book. In these photographs, Davidson presents the Bay through all seasons, at all times of day–though he and his cameras love mornings and evenings best—as no one, I dare say, has done before or is likely to do again. The natural and built worlds that are so often locked in mortal combat stand not juxtaposed but interwoven in a way that shows the complexity and fragility of the Bay today. Whether tomorrow we will continue to use the Bay as a battleground in the war on nature or turn it into a model for a more sustainable and sane way of living on this planet is the primary question underlying this remarkable book.
Miami Beach, Florida
Cameron Davidson | Chesapeake 