Aerial Photo of San Elijo Lagoon and Cardiff Reef beach. San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve is one of the largest remaining coastal wetlands in San Diego County, California, on the border of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 30597
Aerial Photo of San Elijo Lagoon and Cardiff Reef beach. San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve is one of the largest remaining coastal wetlands in San Diego County, California, on the border of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 30598
Aerial Photo of San Elijo Lagoon and Cardiff Reef beach. San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve is one of the largest remaining coastal wetlands in San Diego County, California, on the border of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 30599
Aerial Photo of San Elijo Lagoon and Cardiff Reef beach. San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve is one of the largest remaining coastal wetlands in San Diego County, California, on the border of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 30600
Aerial Photo of San Elijo Lagoon and Cardiff Reef beach. San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve is one of the largest remaining coastal wetlands in San Diego County, California, on the border of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 30601
Aerial Photo of San Elijo Lagoon. San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve is one of the largest remaining coastal wetlands in San Diego County, California, on the border of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 30618
Aerial Photo of San Elijo Lagoon and Cardiff Reef beach. San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve is one of the largest remaining coastal wetlands in San Diego County, California, on the border of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 30582
Aerial Photo of San Elijo Lagoon and Cardiff Reef beach. San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve is one of the largest remaining coastal wetlands in San Diego County, California, on the border of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 30594
Beautiful golden sunset light on Encinitas D Street beach.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 37582
Young Pacific harbor seal pup, only a few days old, in surf at the edge of the ocean. This pup will remain with its mother for only about six weeks, at which time it will be weaned and must forage for its own food.
Species: Pacific Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 40226
Young Pacific harbor seal pup, only a few days old. This pup will remain with its mother for only about six weeks, at which time it will be weaned and must forage for its own food.
Species: Pacific Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 40230
The old Point Loma lighthouse operated from 1855 to 1891 above the entrance to San Diego Bay. It is now a maintained by the National Park Service and is part of Cabrillo National Monument.
Location: Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California
Image ID: 14522
Male elephant seals (bulls) rear up on their foreflippers and fight for territory and harems of females. Bull elephant seals will haul out and fight from December through March, nearly fasting the entire time as they maintain their territory and harem. They bite and tear at each other on the neck and shoulders, drawing blood and creating scars on the tough hides.
Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California
Image ID: 20377
Lowlying plants grow where a forest fire has cleared the forest floor of debris, allowing seeds of small shrubs and trees to take root. The charred and burnt trees remain behind, some of them still alive in spite of their blackened appearance.
Location: Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 23262
Lowlying plants grow where a forest fire has cleared the forest floor of debris, allowing seeds of small shrubs and trees to take root. The charred and burnt trees remain behind, some of them still alive in spite of their blackened appearance.
Location: Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 23277
Ile de la Cite, one of two remaining natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris It is the center of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded.
Location: Ile de la Cite, Paris, France
Image ID: 28239
D Street Beach and stairs in Encinitas at Sunset, viewed to the south, aerial photo.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 38101
Marine Street Beach reef at low tide, aerial photo, La Jolla.
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 38196
Hotel del Coronado, 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.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 29419
The Louvre Pyramid, Pyramide du Louvre, large glass and metal pyramid in the main courtyard (Cour Napoleon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris.
Location: Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Image ID: 28094
Eglise Saint-Pierre de Montmartre. The Church of Saint Peter of Montmartre is the lesser known of the two main churches on Montmartre in Paris, the other being the 19th-century Sacre-Coeur Basilica. Historically, however, it has the greater claim to fame, since, according to the earliest biography of Saint Ignatius Loyola, the church is the location at which the vows were taken that led to the founding of the Society of Jesus.
Location: Eglise Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, Paris, France
Image ID: 28157
Ile de la Cite, one of two remaining natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris It is the center of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded.
Location: Ile de la Cite, Paris, France
Image ID: 28211
Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres. The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, just beyond the outskirts of early medieval Paris, was the burial place of Merovingian kings of Neustria. The Abbey was founded in the 6th century by the son of Clovis I, Childebert I.
Location: Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris, France
Image ID: 28067
Les Romains de la Decadence, Couture (Thomas), Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
Location: Musee dOrsay, Paris, France
Image ID: 35652
Young Pacific harbor seal pup, only a few days old. This pup will remain with its mother for only about six weeks, at which time it will be weaned and must forage for its own food.
Species: Pacific Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 40206