Natural History Photography

$Milky Way over Sandstone Fins. Sandstone fins stand on edge. Vertical fractures separate standing plates of sandstone that are eroded into freestanding fins, that may one day further erode into arches, Arches National Park, Utah$

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.
Location: Arches National Park, Utah
Image ID: 29254

Young Steller sea lions mock jousting underwater, a combination of play and mild agreession, Norris Rocks, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Species: Steller sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus
Location: Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 32688

Seagull picks skin off a southern right whale, leaving a lesion that may become infected and which scientists have shown to be stressful to young calves.
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 38334

Aerial Photo of San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA. Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Pier, La Jolla, California

Aerial Photo of San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA. Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Pier.
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 30626

Underwater ROV Preparing to Dive at Clipperton Island.
Location: Clipperton Island, France
Image ID: 32964

Aerial photo of the Puerto Piramides headlands, part of Golfo Nuevo on Peninsula Valdes, Argentina. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41192
Panorama dimensions: 5391 x 10489

Mating pair of Southern Right Whales, aerial photo. In this photo, the male is grasping the female with one of his pectoral fins as a prelude to copulation. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41196

Copulating Southern Right Whales, aerial photo. The female is in the middle. The male at bottom is copulating with her, while the second male at top is trying to do so as well. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41212

Courting Pair of Southern Right Whales, Aerial Photo. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA, Eubalaena australis, Puerto Piramides

Courting Pair of Southern Right Whales, Aerial Photo. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41213

Copulating Pair of Southern Right Whales, aerial photo.The male is at left, female at right, and the female's calf at upper right. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41219

Breaching Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis, Golfo Nuevo, Peninsula Valdes, Argentina. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41200

White Southern Right Whale Calf with fluke raised out of the water with the cliffs of Puerto Piramides in the distance. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41205

Southern giant petrel in flight, Macronectes giganteus, Peninsula Valdes, Argentina. This large seabird has a wingspan up to 80" from wing-tip to wing-tip. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Species: Southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41206

Southern Right Whale with fluke raised out fo the water with the famous "pyramid" of Puerto Piramides in the distance. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41214

Southern Right Whale with fluke raised out fo the water with the cliffs of Puerto Piramides in the distance. By permission of the Government of Argentina, Chubut, permit # 51 / 2025-SsCyA.
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina
Image ID: 41215

Aerial view of the lagoon inside Clipperton Island. The lagoon within the atoll was formerly open to the ocean but has been closed and stagnant for many decades. Some experts believe erosion will open the lagoon up to the ocean again soon. Clipperton Island, a minor territory of France also known as Ile de la Passion, is a spectacular coral atoll in the eastern Pacific. By permit HC / 1485 / CAB (France).
Location: Clipperton Island, France
Image ID: 32864
Panorama dimensions: 4298 x 9430

Mission Bay, Ocean Beach, Point Loma and Coronado islands, at night, San Diego, California

Mission Bay, Ocean Beach, Point Loma and Coronado islands, at night.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 36663
Panorama dimensions: 4979 x 14516

Arch Rock at sunrise, Valley of Fire State Park. Natural arch formed in sandstone. Sunrise with the full moon setting over mountains in the distance.
Location: Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
Image ID: 26472

Fire Arch or Windstone Arch, also known as Fire Cave, is a tiny cave with a miniature arch and a group of natural pocket holes. Many people walk by this cave without realizing it is there!.
Location: Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
Image ID: 26475

Broken Hill and view to La Jolla, from Torrey Pines State Reserve, sunrise, San Diego, California

Broken Hill and view to La Jolla, from Torrey Pines State Reserve, sunrise.
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California
Image ID: 28395

Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Maui

Pacific bottlenose dolphin.
Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
Location: Maui, Hawaii
Image ID: 04564

Fantastic colorful sedimentary patterns, Bentonite layers are seen as striations exposed in the Utah Badlands. The Bentonite Hills are composed of the Brushy Basin shale member of the Morrison Formation. This layer was formed during Jurassic times when mud, silt, fine sand, and volcanic ash were deposited in swamps and lakes. Aerial photograph.
Location: Utah
Image ID: 38029

Lower Blue Hills Badlands, sunrise, Utah.
Location: Utah
Image ID: 38031

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