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Categories  >  Location  >  USA  >  California   >    Breaking wave, fast motion and blur, The Wedge. Image ID: 14355   Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA   Half Dome and storm clouds at sunset, viewed from Sentinel Bridge. Image ID: 22744   Location: Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, USA   Breaking wave, Moonlight Beach, Encinitas, morning, barrel shaped surf, California. Image ID: 27975   Location: California, USA   Breaking wave, Ponto, South Carlsbad. Image ID: 17679   Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA   Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage. Image ID: 15122   Species: Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA   Cholla cactus, brittlebush, ocotillo and various cacti and wildflowers color the sides of Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months. Image ID: 10975   Species: Encelia farinosa, Fouquieria splendens, Opuntia Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA   Vernal Falls at peak flow in late spring, with a rainbow appearing in the spray of the falls, viewed from the Mist Trail. Image ID: 12634   Location: Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA   Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 00627   Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   A kelp forest, with sunbeams passing through kelp fronds. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 02411   Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   Horsetail Falls backlit by the setting sun as it cascades down the face of El Capitan, February, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 07048   Location: Horsetail Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA   Yosemite Falls at peak flow in late spring, viewed from Cooks Meadow. Image ID: 12631   Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA   Oceanside Pier at dusk, sunset, night. Oceanside. Image ID: 14628   Location: Oceanside Pier, California, USA   Yosemite Valley Tunnel View, Storm clouds at sunset, Yosemite National Park. Image ID: 34542   Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA Pano dimensions: 7653 x 12541   Tiny hikers atop Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, California. Near Stovepipe Wells lies a region of sand dunes, some of them hundreds of feet tall. Image ID: 15577   Location: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California, USA   Aspen trees display Eastern Sierra fall colors, Lake Sabrina, Bishop Creek Canyon. Image ID: 17547   Species: Aspen, Populus tremuloides Location: Bishop Creek Canyon, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA   A SCUBA diver swims through a giant kelp forest which is tilted back by strong ocean currents. Giant kelp, the fastest plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 01107   Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA   Lembert Dome and late afternoon clouds rise above Tuolumne Meadows in the High Sierra, catching the fading light of sunset. Image ID: 09938   Location: Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California, USA   Hotel del Coronado with holiday Christmas night lights, known affectionately as the Hotel Del. It was once the largest hotel in the world, and is one of the few remaining wooden Victorian beach resorts. It sits on the beach on Coronado Island, seen here with downtown San Diego in the distance. It is widely considered to be one of Americas most beautiful and classic hotels. Built in 1888, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977. Image ID: 27396   Location: San Diego, California, USA   Scripps Pier solstice, sunset aligned perfectly with the pier. Image ID: 28475   Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA   Bristlecone pine displays its characteristic gnarled, twisted form as it rises above the arid, dolomite-rich slopes of the White Mountains at 11000-foot elevation. Patriarch Grove, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. Image ID: 17475   Species: Bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva Location: White Mountains, Inyo National Forest, California, USA   Little Corona Beach, at night under a full moon, waves lit by moonlight. Image ID: 28866   Location: Newport Beach, California, USA   Full Moon over San Diego City Skyline, viewed from Point Loma. Mount San Miguel is in center while Lyons Peak lies to the left. Image ID: 29116   Location: San Diego, California, USA Pano dimensions: 5261 x 18810   San Diego Bay and Skyline at sunset, viewed from Point Loma, panoramic photograph. Image ID: 30210   Location: San Diego, California, USA   California sea lion framed by huge breaking wave in La Jolla. Image ID: 34272   Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: La Jolla, California, USA   Townsley Lake (10396'), a beautiful alpine lake sitting below blue sky, clouds and Fletcher Peak (right), lies amid the Cathedral Range of glacier-sculpted granite peaks in Yosemite's high country, near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp. Image ID: 23206   Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA   Blue whale, exhaling as it surfaces from a dive, aerial photo. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight. Image ID: 25950   Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA   Carson Smith, Ponto, South Carlsbad, morning surf. Image ID: 17828   Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA   Don Gaunder, Ponto, South Carlsbad, morning surf. Image ID: 17855   Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA   The Milky Way at Night over Sky Rock, panorama, spherical projection. Sky Rock petroglyphs near Bishop, California. Hidden atop an enormous boulder in the Volcanic Tablelands lies Sky Rock, a set of petroglyphs that face the sky. These superb examples of native American petroglyph artwork are thought to be Paiute in origin, but little is known about them. Image ID: 28799   Location: Bishop, California, USA Pano dimensions: 8511 x 13962   Sky Rock petroglyphs near Bishop, California, sunrise light just touching clouds and the Sierra Nevada. Hidden atop an enormous boulder in the Volcanic Tablelands lies Sky Rock, a set of petroglyphs that face the sky. These superb examples of native American petroglyph artwork are thought to be Paiute in origin, but little is known about them. Image ID: 26979   Location: Bishop, California, USA

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Updated: January 19, 2022