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Humpback whale breaching with pectoral fins lifting spray from the ocean surface.
Image ID: 03854
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Milky Way over Sandstone Fins. Sandstone fins stand on edge. Vertical fractures separate standing plates of sandstone that are eroded into freestanding fins, that may one day further erode into arches.
Image ID: 29254
Location: Arches National Park, Utah, USA | Saddle patch and dorsal fins of killer whales, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30421
Species: Killer whale, Orcinus orca
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA |
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Sunrise light touches the Fins. Sandstone fins stand on edge. Vertical fractures separate standing plates of sandstone that are eroded into freestanding fins, that may one day further erode into arches.
Image ID: 29255
Location: Arches National Park, Utah, USA | Epaulette shark. The epaulette shark is primarily nocturnal, hunting for crabs, worms and invertebrates by crawling across the bottom on its overlarge fins.
Image ID: 14958
Species: Epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium ocellatum | Fins. The vertical slabs of Entrada sandstone may become natural sandstone arches.
Image ID: 18187
Location: Arches National Park, Utah, USA |
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Courthouse Towers, narrow sandstone fins towering above the surrounding flatlands.
Image ID: 18195
Location: Courthouse Towers, Arches National Park, Utah, USA | A great white shark swims away, showing its powerful caudal fin (tail), short anal fins on its underside, tall dorsal fin on top and sweeping winglike pectoral fins.
Image ID: 19466
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26644
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA |
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Milky Way over Sandstone Fins. Sandstone fins stand on edge. Vertical fractures separate standing plates of sandstone that are eroded into freestanding fins, that may one day further erode into arches.
Image ID: 29253
Location: Arches National Park, Utah, USA
Pano dimensions: 7791 x 15529 |
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Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26643
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA | Guy stands in shallow water wearing his long fins, takes photo of his shadow.
Image ID: 23298
Location: Cardiff by the Sea, California, USA | Sandstone ridges and fins, in the White Domes section of Valley of Fire State Park.
Image ID: 26482
Location: Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, USA |
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Humpback whale with one of its long pectoral fins raised aloft out of the water, swimming on its side (laterally) as it does so.
Image ID: 01470
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Male humpback whale with head raised out of the water, braking and pushing back at another whale by using pectoral fins spread in a "crucifix block", during surface active social behaviours.
Image ID: 04106
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26646
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA |
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Sandstone fins stand on edge. Vertical fractures separate standing plates of sandstone that are eroded into freestanding fins, that may one day further erode into arches.
Image ID: 29256
Location: Arches National Park, Utah, USA
Pano dimensions: 6933 x 11514 | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26647
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26675
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA |
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Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26676
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26678
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26679
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA |
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Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26614
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26645
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26677
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA |
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Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26680
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26681
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA | Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26682
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA |
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Sandstone "fins", eroded striations that depict how sandstone -- ancient compressed sand -- was laid down in layers over time. Now exposed, the layer erode at different rates, forming delicate "fins" that stretch for long distances.
Image ID: 26683
Location: Navajo Tribal Lands, Page, Arizona, USA | Male humpback whale with head raised out of the water, braking and pushing back at another whale by using pectoral fins spread in a "crucifix block", during surface active social behaviours.
Image ID: 04112
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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