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Cholla cactus, brittlebush, ocotillo and various cacti and wildflowers color the sides of Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months.
Image ID: 10975
Species: Opuntia, Encelia farinosa, Fouquieria splendens
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Grand Prismatic Spring (left) and Excelsior Geyser (right). Grand Prismatic Spring displays a stunning rainbow of colors created by species of thermophilac (heat-loving) bacteria that thrive in narrow temperature ranges. The blue water in the center is too hot to support any bacterial life, while the outer orange rings are the coolest water. Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest spring in the United States and the third-largest in the world. Midway Geyser Basin.
Image ID: 13571
Location: Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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Broken Hill and view to La Jolla, panoramic photograph, from Torrey Pines State Reserve, sunrise.
Image ID: 28397
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 4332 x 11344 |
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Milky Way galaxy rises above the Fire Wave, Valley of Fire State Park.
Image ID: 28428
Location: Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, USA | Elephant arch and stars at night, moonlight, Valley of Fire State Park.
Image ID: 28435
Location: Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, USA | Lunar Eclipse Sequence Over Broken Hill, Torrey Pines State Reserve. While the moon lies in the full shadow of the earth (umbra) it receives only faint, red-tinged light refracted through the Earth's atmosphere. As the moon passes into the penumbra it receives increasing amounts of direct sunlight, eventually leaving the shadow of the Earth altogether. October 8, 2014.
Image ID: 29412
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA |
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Clearing storm clouds over Broken Hill, overlooking La Jolla and the Pacific Ocean, Torrey Pines State Reserve.
Image ID: 29416
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Milky Way galaxy rises above the Fire Wave, Valley of Fire State Park.
Image ID: 28554
Location: Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, USA | Torrey Pines seacliffs, rising up to 300 feet above the ocean, stretch from Del Mar to La Jolla. On the mesa atop the bluffs are found Torrey pine trees, one of the rare species of pines in the world.
Image ID: 22285
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA |
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Torrey Pines State Reserve, Broken Hill at Dawn.
Image ID: 29178
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Torrey Pines State Beach at Sunset, La Jolla, Mount Soledad and Blacks Beach in the distance.
Image ID: 35061
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | The Fire Wave, a beautiful sandstone formation exhibiting dramatic striations, striped layers in the geologic historical record.
Image ID: 26473
Location: Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, USA |
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Self portrait at sunrise, panorama of Crater Lake. Crater Lake is the six-mile wide lake inside the collapsed caldera of volcanic Mount Mazama. Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and the seventh-deepest in the world. Its maximum recorded depth is 1996 feet (608m). It lies at an altitude of 6178 feet (1880m).
Image ID: 19130
Location: Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA
Pano dimensions: 2726 x 9677 |
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Sunset at Dead Horse Point Overlook, with the Colorado River flowing 2,000 feet below. 300 million years of erosion has carved the expansive canyons, cliffs and walls below and surrounding Deadhorse Point.
Image ID: 27823
Location: Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah, USA
Pano dimensions: 5303 x 17695 |
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Torrey Pines Cliffs lit at night by a full moon, low tide reflections.
Image ID: 28461
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Torrey Pines Cliffs and Pacific Ocean, Razor Point view to La Jolla, San Diego, California.
Image ID: 28487
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Quarter Moon over Broken Hill, Torrey Pines State Reserve.
Image ID: 28366
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA |
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Broken Hill in soft pre-dawn light, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Torrey Pines State Reserve. La Jolla and Mount Soledad in the distance.
Image ID: 36564
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Broken Hill by the first light of dawn, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Torrey Pines State Reserve.
Image ID: 36567
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Sunset falls upon Torrey Pines State Reserve, viewed from the Torrey Pines glider port. La Jolla, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Scripps Pier are seen in the distance.
Image ID: 26436
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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The Fire Wave by Moonlight, stars and the night sky, Valley of Fire State Park.
Image ID: 28442
Location: Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, USA
Pano dimensions: 6250 x 6887 | Torrey Pines cliffs and storm clouds at sunset.
Image ID: 29102
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Dune Evening Primrose bloom in Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
Image ID: 35203
Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Oenothera deltoides
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA |
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Giant redwood, Lady Bird Johnson Grove, Redwood National Park. The coastal redwood, or simply 'redwood', is the tallest tree on Earth, reaching a height of 379' and living 3500 years or more. It is native to coastal California and the southwestern corner of Oregon within the United States, but most concentrated in Redwood National and State Parks in Northern California, found close to the coast where moisture and soil conditions can support its unique size and growth requirements.
Image ID: 25795
Species: Coast redwood, giant redwood, California redwood, Sequoia sempervirens
Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA | Brittlebush blooms in spring, Palm Canyon, Anza Borrego Desert State Park.
Image ID: 24304
Species: Brittlebush, Encelia farinosa
Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Torrey Pines cliffs at sunset.
Image ID: 29112
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA |
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Sunset over Flat Rock on Torrey Pines State Beach.
Image ID: 29105
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 3831 x 12302 |
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Broken Hill and view to La Jolla, panoramic photograph, from Torrey Pines State Reserve, sunrise.
Image ID: 30469
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA
Pano dimensions: 6212 x 12960 |
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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.
Image ID: 25250
Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Torrey Pines State Beach, sandstone cliffs rise above the beach at Torrey Pines State Reserve.
Image ID: 27248
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA |
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