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Brown booby flying over Rose Atoll at sunset, with dark colorful storm clouds and other birds in the background.
Image ID: 00914
Species: Brown booby, Sula leucogaster
Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA | A white tern, or fairy tern, alights on a branch at Rose Atoll in American Samoa.
Image ID: 00871
Species: Fairy tern, Gygis alba
Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA | Sunset light and acropora table coral on pristine tropical reef. Table coral competes for space on the coral reef by growing above and spreading over other coral species keeping them from receiving sunlight.
Image ID: 31315
Location: Wakaya Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji |
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San Diego city skyline at sunset, showing the buildings of downtown San Diego rising above San Diego Harbor, viewed from Harbor Island. A panoramic photograph, composite of thirteen separate images.
Image ID: 22255
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 4759 x 15430 |
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San Diego city skyline at sunset, showing the buildings of downtown San Diego rising above San Diego Harbor, viewed from Harbor Island.
Image ID: 27889
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 3497 x 12426 |
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Anthias fishes school in strong currents above hard and soft corals on a Fijian coral reef, Fiji.
Image ID: 34719
Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias
Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Anthias fishes school in strong currents above hard and soft corals on a Fijian coral reef, Fiji.
Image ID: 34721
Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias
Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Fletcher Peak (11407') rises above Fletcher Lake (10174'), near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp in Yosemite's high country.
Image ID: 23208
Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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Magnificent frigatebird, adult male on nest, with throat pouch inflated, a courtship display to attract females.
Image ID: 16725
Species: Magnificent frigatebird, Fregata magnificens
Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | San Diego Coronado Bridge, known locally as the Coronado Bridge, links San Diego with Coronado, California. The bridge was completed in 1969 and was a toll bridge until 2002. It is 2.1 miles long and reaches a height of 200 feet above San Diego Bay. Coronado Island is to the left, and downtown San Diego is to the right in this view looking north.
Image ID: 22288
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Surf grass on the rocky reef -- appearing blurred in this time exposure -- is tossed back and forth by powerful ocean waves passing by above. San Clemente Island.
Image ID: 10237
Species: Surfgrass, Phyllospadix
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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SIO Pier. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography research pier is 1090 feet long and was built of reinforced concrete in 1988, replacing the original wooden pier built in 1915. The Scripps Pier is home to a variety of sensing equipment above and below water that collects various oceanographic data. The Scripps research diving facility is located at the foot of the pier. Fresh seawater is pumped from the pier to the many tanks and facilities of SIO, including the Birch Aquarium. The Scripps Pier is named in honor of Ellen Browning Scripps, the most significant donor and benefactor of the Institution.
Image ID: 22286
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA | Magnificent frigatebird, adult female on nest.
Image ID: 16726
Species: Magnificent frigatebird, Fregata magnificens
Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Nazca booby in flight.
Image ID: 16681
Species: Nazca booby, Sula granti
Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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Acropora table coral on pristine tropical reef. Table coral competes for space on the coral reef by growing above and spreading over other coral species keeping them from receiving sunlight.
Image ID: 31331
Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Humpback whale mother, calf (top), male escort (rear), underwater. A young humpback calf typically swims alongside or above its mother, and male escorts will usually travel behind the mother.
Image ID: 02819
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Downtown San Diego and USS Midway. The USS Midway was a US Navy aircraft carrier, launched in 1945 and active through the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm, as of 2008 a museum along the downtown waterfront in San Diego.
Image ID: 22289
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Crystal Pier, 872 feet long and built in 1925, extends out into the Pacific Ocean from the town of Pacific Beach. Mission Bay and downtown San Diego are seen in the distance.
Image ID: 22294
Location: San Diego, California, USA | New Point Loma Lighthouse, situated on the tip of Point Loma Peninsula, marks the entrance to San Diego Bay. The lighthouse rises 70' and was built in 1891 to replace the "old" Point Loma Lighthouse which was often shrouded in fog.
Image ID: 22295
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Mount Moran rises above the Snake River at Oxbow Bend at sunrise.
Image ID: 13026
Location: Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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Mount Moran rises above the Snake River at Oxbow Bend.
Image ID: 13027
Location: Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA | Yosemite Falls rises above the Merced River, viewed from the Swinging Bridge. The 2425 falls is the tallest in North America. Yosemite Valley.
Image ID: 16143
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath.
Image ID: 21253
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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San Diego city skyline, showing the buildings of downtown San Diego rising above San Diego Harbor, viewed from Point Loma at sunset, with mountains of the Cleveland National Forest rising in the distance. A panoramic photograph, composite of six separate images.
Image ID: 22252
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 3144 x 16621 |
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Coronado Bridge, linking San Diego to Coronado, sunrise, viewed from Coronado Island. San Diego Coronado Bridge, known locally as the Coronado Bridge, links San Diego with Coronado, California. The bridge was completed in 1969 and was a toll bridge until 2002. It is 2.1 miles long and reaches a height of 200 feet above San Diego Bay.
Image ID: 27101
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath.
Image ID: 21249
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | A forest of bull kelp rises above a colorful cold water reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Image ID: 35295
Species: Bull Kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Location: British Columbia, Canada |
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Aerial Panoramic Photo of Point La Jolla and La Jolla Cove, Boomer Beach, Scripps Park. Panoramic aerial photograph of La Jolla Cove and Scripps Parks (center), with La Jolla’s Mount Soledad rising above, La Jolla Shores and La Jolla Caves to the left and the La Jolla Coast with Children’s Pool (Casa Cove) to the right. The undersea reefs of Boomer Beach are seen through the clear, calm ocean waters. This extremely high resolution panorama will print 50″ high by 130″ long with no interpolation.
Image ID: 30773
Location: La Jolla, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 7744 x 20541 |
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A forest of bull kelp rises above a colorful cold water reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island.
Image ID: 35299
Species: Giant Plumose Anemone, Bull Kelp, Metridium farcimen, Nereocystis luetkeana
Location: British Columbia, Canada | Various stony and soft corals on pristine tropical reef. Table coral competes for space on the coral reef by growing above and spreading over other coral species keeping them from receiving sunlight.
Image ID: 31408
Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias
Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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