Search results for Oak Alley Plantation

Oak Alley at Boone Hall Plantation, a shaded tunnel of huge old southern live oak trees, Charleston, South Carolina. Plantation owners planted long palisades of Southern Live Oaks to provide a shaded, cool allee (from the French) on which they could stroll, entertain and find diversion from the intense heat of the South.
Species: Southern live oak, Quercus virginiana
Location: Boone Hall Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina
Image ID: 37394  

Oak Alley at Boone Hall Plantation, a shaded tunnel of huge old southern live oak trees, Charleston, South Carolina.
Species: Southern live oak, Quercus virginiana
Location: Boone Hall Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina
Image ID: 37397  

Oak Alley at Boone Hall Plantation, a shaded tunnel of huge old southern live oak trees, Charleston, South Carolina.
Species: Southern live oak, Quercus virginiana
Location: Boone Hall Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina
Image ID: 37403  

Southern Live Oaks form a shady canopy, Magnolia Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina.
Species: Southern live oak, Quercus virginiana
Location: Magnolia Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina
Image ID: 37406  

Divers Swim Over the Wreck of the HMCS Yukon in San Diego. Deliberately sunk in 2000 at San Diego's Wreck Alley to form an artifical reef, the HMCS Yukon is a 366-foot-long former Canadian destroyer. It is encrusted with a variety of invertebrate life, including Cornyactis anemones which provide much of the color seen here.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 39475  

American Flag Flying Over The Wreck of the HMCS Yukon in San Diego. Deliberately sunk in 2000 as part of San Diego's Wreck Alley to form an artifical reef, the HMCS Yukon is a 366-foot-long former Canadian destroyer. It is encrusted with a variety of invertebrate life, including Cornyactis anemones which provide much of the color seen here.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 39476  

Aspens show fall colors in Mineral King Valley, part of Sequoia National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada, California.
Location: Mineral King, Sequoia National Park, California
Image ID: 32257  

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  

Yosemite Falls rises above the Merced River, viewed from Swinging Bridge.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 22757  

Sunset on the Eureka Dunes. The Eureka Valley Sand Dunes are California's tallest sand dunes, and one of the tallest in the United States. Rising 680' above the floor of the Eureka Valley, the Eureka sand dunes are home to several endangered species, as well as "singing sand" that makes strange sounds when it shifts. Located in the remote northern portion of Death Valley National Park, the Eureka Dunes see very few visitors.
Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California
Image ID: 25240  

Eureka Dunes. The Eureka Valley Sand Dunes are California's tallest sand dunes, and one of the tallest in the United States. Rising 680' above the floor of the Eureka Valley, the Eureka sand dunes are home to several endangered species, as well as "singing sand" that makes strange sounds when it shifts. Located in the remote northern portion of Death Valley National Park, the Eureka Dunes see very few visitors.
Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California
Image ID: 25241  

Yosemite Falls, mist and and storm clouds.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 22767  

El Capitan eastern face, sunrise.
Location: El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 22770  

Molly's Castle, aerial view, Goblin Valley State Park.
Location: Mollys Castle, Goblin Valley State Park, Utah
Image ID: 38016  

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.
Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California
Image ID: 27691  

Monument Valley panorama, sunrise, dawn, stars in the sky.
Location: Monument Valley, Arizona
Image ID: 28598  

The OVRO 40 meter Telescope, part of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory located near Big Pine, California, USA. The telescope is used to conduct interferometric observations along with the other telescopes in the observatory, as a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) station and as a single dish instrument. Its main focus today is on the monitoring of blazars.
Location: Big Pine, California
Image ID: 28793  

Cathedral Rocks at sunrise, reflected in a spring meadow flooded by the Merced River.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 26856  

Vernal Falls and Merced River in spring, heavy flow due to snow melt in the high country above Yosemite Valley.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 26878  

Reflection of Yosemite Falls in Flooded Cooks Meadow. The Merced River overflows its banks following the historical storms of 2023, flooding Yosemite Valley and producing pools that reflect a roaring Upper Yosemite Falls. This is a reflection, flipped upside down.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 39381  

Oak Alley Plantation and its famous shaded tunnel of 300-year-old southern live oak trees (Quercus virginiana). The plantation is now designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Species: Southern live oak, Quercus virginiana
Location: Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie, Louisiana
Image ID: 31009  

Salt polygons. After winter flooding, the salt on the Badwater Basin playa dries into geometric polygonal shapes.
Location: Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California
Image ID: 25242