Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica by Stuart Klipper

Freezing-cold greetings, collectors! It's Sara and as you spy above, today's edition is a sliver of Eden to defrost this frigid day. But before I get into the details of this work and its maker, I have some fun, games and a forewarning: to get first news about tomorrow's edition and to find out how to win a $50 print, plus a book to boot, follow Serious Eats on Twitter. We're giving our friends there the scoop because we know foodies-in-the-know will especially dig it. All you art lovers will want to play—particularly fans of Jane Mount's ever-popular Ideal Bookshelves series—and you heard it here, first, today. Follow Serious Eats and you'll also get lots of great culinarily-inclined updates—on everything from designer ice creams to canned tomatoes and cookie sheets. While you're at it, make sure you're following 20x200, too.

While fun and games are, well, fun, today's edition from Stuart Klipper packs a serious sense of adventure, not to mention sheer green gorgeousness. What better way to fend off the cool grays of winter's bay? Let's rest our eyes on Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica and pretend a trip to the tropics is just a hop, skip and a jump away. After all, Stuart's done all the trekking and sweating for us—traveling deep into this teeming rainforest with his camera in tow, struggling against downpours and mudslides, swimming in, as he said, "a thick soup of DNA"—and returning with his document of these prehistoric palms. Waving long and broad amid a dense tangle of innumerable varieties they bid the weary wanderer hello.

Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica recalls my own months-long stints through Central America—back-packing and surfing, butterfly-spotting, island-hopping and mountain climbing, guided by fireflies and sleeping in huts that armies of ants invaded, where rustles in the grass one day gave way to a six-foot boa constrictor, and grasshoppers the size of hot dogs sprang from the fauna. All these things, I'm sure Stuart faced too, as his sense of adventure is equaled only by his photographic fervor: he's super prolific, leaving panoramic peeks of the farthest reaches of the world in his wake. For this, he's one of 20x200's kin. Many of us round HQ, too, are heartened by a deep-seated sense of wanderlust, mostly satiated vicariously these days, by works like Stuart's and the tales he tells. And I think there's a fair share of collectors out there who will appreciate these things too.

Stuart's first editions, Swell, Southern Ocean near 50 S, Antarctica and Icebreaker, Emperor penguin, Southern O., Antarctica feature photographs from his travels to the coldest climates, in the most desolate of places, for a project encompassed in the book, The Antarctic. His travels and photographic accomplishments have been noted in print and by institutions as well. His works are collected far and wide, notably by the Museum of Contemporary Photography. So, I suggest you jump on this chance to acquire one of his prints too, for you or your nearest and dearest wanderer.

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