"Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change" Award-Winning Book, Traveling Exhibit, and Future Audio-described Book
By conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter, recipients of the Sierra Club's 2020 Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography.
Please help us make our beautiful book accessible to people who are visually impaired.
Imagine if you can't see the beauty and diversity of our wildflower images. Experience an audio-description. Make a donation.
Testimonials
"This exquisite book celebrates California’s native wildflowers for what they are: works of art, honed over millennia, with the same right to exist as everything else...."
Joel Sartore
National Geographic photographer and founder of the Photo Ark
"Rob and Nita’s passion for the flowered world allows us to look more closely see more deeply into the beauty of the lands we walk."
Terry Tempest Williams
Author, conservationist, activist
"Nita and Rob’s portrait of California’s wondrous plant diversity is gorgeous and eye opening. This book will encourage love for this planet’s magnificent and diverse living species and a desire to fight to save life on Earth.
Kieran Suckling
Executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity
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Because we are so passionate about sharing and protecting nature’s beauty we found a way to help the visually impaired connect with the natural world. Experience a sample audio-description. Help us create our unique audiobook and share our world of wildflowers. Please identify project as "Beauty and the Beast." We are most grateful.
Collaboration of Many Hearts and Minds
Co-published with the California Native Plant Society and the help of over a dozen organizations.
Integrating Art, Science and Storytelling
Images and words are woven together to tell the wildflower’s story.
Plus "Behind the Scenes"
Get a peak at how Rob and Nita create their floral portraits in the field.
Testimonials
“OMG...your book is a masterpiece. First I cried at the beauty of the flowers, then I felt kinship with the stories...especially Wendy Tokuda’s description of broom pulling... This book belongs in every school, library, and home."
Pat Williams
Retired Fire Captain
"I've read all of the essays and looked at every page with awe. Such an amazing tome. I'm carrying it around like a baby (a big baby) sharing it with friends and family. Thank you again for pursuing and completing this project."
Harriet W.
Proud owner of a Deluxe Limited Edition
"THANK YOU for the gift of your art. Antelope Valley (page 2-3) took my breath away. Lake County (page 4-5) brought tears to my eyes. I moaned out loud when I saw the Wrapped Iris. Just amazing. You have made the world a better place."
Maggie C.
Customer