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"Light pervades the black-and-white images in the newest portfolio by Lee Dunkel, picking out the tiniest twig in the smallest, or “mini” image, and illuminating a rain-drenched forest or murky pond’s mysterious depths in her radiant prints. “Florida Wetlands” offers a broad overview of a specific terrain, with all of its multifaceted implications and associations wide open to individual interpretation. As her eye has become infinitely more discerning, Dunkel has begun to strip away all momentary, peripheral qualities in a process that emphasizes the essential.  

These nature studies are undeniably spectacular; the state’s undeveloped sites and natural vistas are magnificent in their own right. Translated into a burnished black-and-white that defies color’s seductive wiles even as they suggest subdued splendor, her landscapes seem to occupy a rarified space: arrested glimpses of a vanishing wilderness. They are all the more vibrant because of their restraint.

Something different emerges in "Florida Wetlands"; the view now is both darker and more sanguine, expressed in the highly articulate, technically superb vocabulary Dunkel has made her own.  Here, in bold imagery and terms that are more baldly stated than in any of her previous landscapes or nature studies, the threat to natural Florida is crystallized, and made clear." –Laura Stewart