Nature photographer Lockwood and painter Gary joined forces for this photographic and oil-painting chronicle of the endangered Louisiana coastal wetlands, which are quickly disappearing at a rate of a football field-size area every 38 minutes.

C. C. Lockwood is a natural history photographer who enjoys studying his subject over the course of at least one year through on-site living. Most of his subjects involve water. Among his many other photography books are Around the Bend: A Mississippi River Adventure; Beneath the Rim: A Photographic Journey Through the Grand Canyon; Still Waters: Images, 1971--1999; The Alligator Book; and The Yucatán Peninsula. In 1978 he received the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography, and in 2000 he was voted a Louisiana Legend by Louisiana Public Broadcasting. He and his wife, Sue, live in Baton Rouge.
A native of Louisiana, Rhea Gary is a professional artist who has studied painting in France, Ireland, and Italy, as well as in the United States under Wolf Kahn. In her canvases executed over more than thirty years, she weaves a fabric as seamless as the Louisiana waterways she loves. She lives in Baton Rouge.