This Week's Most Frequently Viewed Images

Isla Adentro (right) and Church Rock (partially obscured), sunrise.
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 06138  

Seventeen Palms Oasis, Borrego Badlands.
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California
Image ID: 05542  

Bixby Bridge on Highway 1, Lobos Rocks in foreground, Big Sur.
Location: Big Sur, California
Image ID: 05504  

Bixby Bridge on Highway 1, Lobos Rocks in foreground.
Location: Big Sur, California
Image ID: 05503  

Yosemite Falls seen from Mist trail.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 05452  

Jack mackerel.
Species: Pacific jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 03445  

Ocean sunfish and freediving photographer, open ocean.
Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 03325  

Ocean sunfish (Mola mola) with mouth wide open for slurping zooplankton, open ocean.
Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 03319  

Ocean sunfish schooling near drift kelp, soliciting cleaner fishes, open ocean, Baja California.
Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Image ID: 06304  

Common dolphin.
Species: Common dolphin, Delphinus delphis
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 06421  

Bridalveil Falls in Yosemite drops 620 feet (188 m) from a hanging valley to the floor of Yosemite Valley.
Location: Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 07758  

Surprise Pool Spring along Firehole Lake Drive.
Location: Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07247  

Old Faithful geyser, peak eruption.
Location: Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07179  

Yosemite Falls, winter, Yosemite Valley.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 07030  

Pacific white sided dolphin, carrying drift kelp.
Species: Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 00046  

Wind turbines overlooking Interstate 10 provide electricity to Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley. San Gorgonio pass, San Bernardino mountains.
Location: San Gorgonio Pass, Palm Springs, California
Image ID: 06913  

Wind turbines provide electricity to Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley. San Gorgonio pass, San Bernardino mountains.
Location: San Gorgonio Pass, Palm Springs, California
Image ID: 06891  

UCSD Library (Geisel Library, UCSD Central Library).
Location: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
Image ID: 06457  

Scalloped hammerhead shark swims underwater at Cocos Island. The hammerheads eyes and other sensor organs are placed far apart on its wide head to give the shark greater ability to sense the location of prey.
Species: Scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini
Location: Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Image ID: 03192  

A Pacific harbor seal pup hauls out on a sandy beach. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach.
Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 03022  

Pacific harbor seals rest while hauled out on a sandy beach. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach.
Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 01958  

Guadalupe fur seal.
Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 01950  

Gray whale, neonate calf and cow.
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: Monterey, California
Image ID: 01134  

Nudibranch.
Species: Mexichromis porterae nudibranch, Mexichromis porterae
Location: San Miguel Island, California
Image ID: 01068  

Rissos dolphin, breaching. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego.
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 00983  

Pacific harbor seals rest while hauled out on a sandy beach. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach.
Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 00938  

Debris, wreck of F/V Jin Shiang Fa.
Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa
Image ID: 00814  

Blue spotted stingray.
Species: Blue-spotted stingray, Taeniura lymma
Location: Egyptian Red Sea
Image ID: 00379  

Guadalupe fur seals, floating upside down underwater over a rocky reef covered with golden kelp at Guadalupe Island.
Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 02113  

Pacific harbor seals rest while hauled out on a sandy beach. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach.
Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 02135