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| Narada Falls cascades down a cliff, with the flow blurred by a time exposure. Narada Falls is a 188 foot (57m) waterfall in Mount Rainier National Park. Image ID: 28718 Location: Narada Falls, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA | Breaking wave, fast motion and blur. The Wedge. Image ID: 14354 Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Aspen trees cover Bishop Creek Canyon above Aspendel. Image ID: 17528 Species: Aspen, Populus tremuloides Location: Bishop Creek Canyon, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA |
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| Mobius Arch at sunrise, framing snow dusted Lone Pine Peak and the Sierra Nevada Range in the background. Also known as Galen's Arch, Mobius Arch is found in the Alabama Hills Recreational Area near Lone Pine. Image ID: 27644 Location: Alabama Hills Recreational Area, 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: 28619 Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA | Half Dome and sunset clouds, evening. Image ID: 28693 Location: Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Christine Falls. Image ID: 28717 Location: Christine Falls, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA | Bryozoan grows on a red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25395 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | A SCUBA diver swimming over a rocky reef covered with kelp, watches a brightly colored orange garibaldi fish. Image ID: 01113 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| 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 | Vogelsang Peak (11516') at sunset, reflected in a small creek near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp in Yosemite's high country. Image ID: 23202 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Turret Arch through North Window, winter, sunrise. Image ID: 18120 Location: North Window, Arches National Park, Utah, USA |
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| Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25393 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills, seen here at night with swirling star trails formed in the sky above due to a long time exposure. Image ID: 27681 Location: Alabama Hills Recreational Area, California, USA | Racetrack sailing stone and star trails. A sliding rock of the Racetrack Playa. The sliding rocks, or sailing stones, move across the mud flats of the Racetrack Playa, leaving trails behind in the mud. The explanation for their movement is not known with certainty, but many believe wind pushes the rocks over wet and perhaps icy mud in winter. Image ID: 27671 Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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| Sailing stone on the Racetrack Playa. The sliding rocks, or sailing stones, move across the mud flats of the Racetrack Playa, leaving trails behind in the mud. The explanation for their movement is not known with certainty, but many believe wind pushes the rocks over wet and perhaps icy mud in winter. Image ID: 27689 Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | A large, powerful wave breaks with offshore winds at the Wedge in Newport Beach. Image ID: 18706 Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Image ID: 28426 Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA |
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| The Wave in the North Coyote Buttes, 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: 28601 Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA | Venus sets over Manley Beacon and the Panamint Mountains, viewed from Zabriskie Point, landscape lit by a full moon, evening, stars. Image ID: 28677 Location: Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Mesquite Dunes sunrise, dawn, clouds and morning sky, sand dunes. Image ID: 28680 Location: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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| El Capitan and clouds lit by full moon, stars, evening. Image ID: 28695 Location: El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Moutain climbers light see upon Mount Rainier, Milky Way and stars at night above Mount Rainier. Image ID: 28726 Location: Sunrise, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA | Mount Rainier reflected in Tipsoo Lake. Image ID: 28734 Location: Tipsoo Lakes, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA |
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| Mount Rainier and alpine wildflowers. Image ID: 28739 Location: Tipsoo Lakes, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA | Sunrise light on Turret Arch viewed through North Window, winter. Image ID: 18119 Location: North Window, Arches National Park, Utah, 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: 20608 Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA |
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| Ancient Bristlecone Pine Tree at sunset, panorama, with storm clouds passing over the White Mountains. The eastern Sierra Nevada is just visible in the distance. Image ID: 28781 Species: Ancient Bristlecone Pine, Pinus longaeva Location: Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, White Mountains, Inyo National Forest, California, USA Pano dimensions: 4549 x 10085 | ||
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| Ancient Bristlecone Pine Tree at night, stars and the Milky Way galaxy visible in the evening sky, near Patriarch Grove. Image ID: 28782 Species: Ancient Bristlecone Pine, Pinus longaeva Location: Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, White Mountains, Inyo National Forest, California, USA Pano dimensions: 5237 x 8556 | Joshua Trees in early morning light. Image ID: 22112 Species: Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA | |
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