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| Paradise Falls tumble over rocks in Paradise Creek. Image ID: 13867 Location: Paradise Creek, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA | 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 |
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| Hiker in North Window, sunset, western face. North Window is a natural sandstone arch 90 feet wide and 48 feet high. Image ID: 18159 Location: North Window, Arches National Park, Utah, USA | A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Mexico's Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and use it as a staging area before journeying farther into the Pacific ocean. Image ID: 19465 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | 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 |
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| Ocean sunfish recruiting fish near drift kelp to clean parasites, open ocean, Baja California. Image ID: 03267 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola | Humpback whale breaching with pectoral fins lifting spray from the ocean surface. Image ID: 03854 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | 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 |
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| 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 | 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 |
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| Milky Way over the Watchman, Zion National Park. The Milky Way galaxy rises in the night sky above the the Watchman. Image ID: 28586 Location: Zion National Park, Utah, USA | The Wave at Night, under a clear night sky full of stars. Photographer is illuminating the striated rocks with a small handheld light. The Wave, an area of fantastic eroded sandstone featuring beautiful swirls, wild colors, countless striations, and bizarre shapes set amidst the dramatic surrounding North Coyote Buttes of Arizona and Utah. The sandstone formations of the North Coyote Buttes, including the Wave, date from the Jurassic period. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the Wave is located in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness and is accessible on foot by permit only. Image ID: 28620 Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA | The Second Wave at Night. The Second Wave, a spectacular sandstone formation in the North Coyote Buttes, lies under a sky full of stars. Image ID: 28627 Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA |
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| Milky Way and stars at night above Mount Rainier. Image ID: 28723 Location: Sunrise, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA Pano dimensions: 6235 x 11240 | ||
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| 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 | Yosemite Falls and star trails, at night, viewed from Cook's Meadow, illuminated by the light of the full moon. Image ID: 27733 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | John Moulton barn at sunrise with Teton Range, on Mormon Row in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Image ID: 26965 Location: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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| Hawaiian spinner dolphin, resting herd swimming along reef. Image ID: 00108 Species: Hawaiian spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris Location: Lanai, Hawaii, USA | Light Painting and the Milky Way and Stars over Delicate Arch, at night, Arches National Park, Utah. Image ID: 29288 Location: Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah, 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 |
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| The Milky Way arches over Half Dome, and the Yosemite High Country, Yosemite National Park. Image ID: 36386 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA Pano dimensions: 7623 x 19265 | ||
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| The Teton Range is reflected in the glassy waters of the Snake River at Schwabacher Landing. Image ID: 12982 Location: Schwabacher Landing, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA | The Wave, an area of fantastic eroded sandstone featuring beautiful swirls, wild colors, countless striations, and bizarre shapes set amidst the dramatic surrounding North Coyote Buttes of Arizona and Utah. The sandstone formations of the North Coyote Buttes, including the Wave, date from the Jurassic period. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the Wave is located in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness and is accessible on foot by permit only. Image ID: 20607 Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA | A great white shark swims underwater through the ocean at Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 21347 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Owachomo Bridge and Milky Way. Owachomo Bridge, a natural stone bridge standing 106' high and spanning 130' wide,stretches across a canyon with the Milky Way crossing the night sky. Image ID: 28541 Location: Owachomo Bridge, Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah, USA | Mesquite Dunes sunrise, dawn, clouds and morning sky, sand dunes. Image ID: 28689 Location: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | The Second Wave at sunset. The Second Wave, a curiously-shaped sandstone swirl, takes on rich warm tones and dramatic shadowed textures at sunset. Set in the North Coyote Buttes of Arizona and Utah, the Second Wave is characterized by striations revealing layers of sedimentary deposits, a visible historical record depicting eons of submarine geology. Image ID: 28613 Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA |
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| Panorama of the Milky Way over Mesa Arch. Image ID: 27824 Location: Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA Pano dimensions: 4790 x 7815 | ||
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