Pollen, Morning Light, Crater Lake from Merriam Point, Oregon Mid-morning in June several years ago, the still lake reflected clouds above its eastern horizon, but I was surprised to see floating sheets of pollen. #CraterLakeNationalPark #Oregon #pollen #caldera #photography #nature #landforms

Rushes, near Rose Blanche, Newfoundland, Canada In the brief calm of midsummer, this still pond became a black mirror, casting silhouettes of rushes against the dull-blue reflection of a fog-filled sky. #newfoundland #landscape #pondlife #botany #reflections

Spring Pools, White Pocket, Vermillion Plateau, Arizona This remote cluster of sandstone domes, located midway along the Arizona/Utah border, is an odd and entrancing geologic wonder. #Arizona #photography #landscapephotography #landscape #desert #geology #spring #sandstone #vermillioncliffs

Painted Dunes, below Cinder Cone, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California #Lassen #volcanoes #california #photography #landscape #lava

Moss-Covered Branches, Lake Crescent, Olympic Peninsula, Washington #OlympicNationalPark #moss #LakeCrescent #WashingtonState #photography #landscape #rainforest

Dawn, North Rim, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado #blackcanyonofthegunnison #Colorado #canyon #photography #coloradolandscape #LandscapePhotography

Rainbow Eucalyptus Bark, Keahua Arboretum, Kauai, Hawaii #kauai #KauaiTravel #KauaiPhotography #KauaiLife #Hawaii #photography #rainforest #RainbowEucalyptus #colorful #nature

National Canyon, near the Colorado River, Arizona #Arizona #GrandCanyonNationalPark #NationalCanyon #ColoradoRiver #canyons #waterreflection #photography #landscape

Quillayute Needles, Second Beach, Olympic Peninsula, Washington #WashingtonState #seastack #PNW #PacificOcean #OlympicPeninsula #OlympicNationalPark #photography #landscape #seashore

Dust Storm, Lee's Ferry, Marble Canyon, Arizona #Arizona #duststorm #springweather #canyonlands #marblecanyon #leesferry #photography #landscape #desert #grandcanyonnationalpark

Beached Fin Whale, Sunset Beach, Oregon #Oregon #oregoncoast #beachedwhale #finwhale #photograph #PacificOcean #grandrondetribes

Canyon del Muerto, near White House Ruins, Arizona #Arizona #landscape #photography #canyonlands #navajonation #spring #navajofarm

Greenstone Sea Stack, Bandon, Oregon

Sunset, Point of Pintas, Arizona I aimed my view camera eastward across a basin toward a ridge etching the horizon. Between lay the accumulated sediment of once-loftier mountains. A place of blessed solitude, these flat drylands felt like an inland sea. #SonoranDesert #Arizona #photography

Young Palm, Palm Canyon, California On a hot February day several years ago, I hiked along a shaded creek south of Palm Springs. Surrounded by thick groves of California Fan Palms, its largest natural stand thrived on the creek’s water. #palmtrees #California #PalmSprings #photography #PalmCanyon

Desert Mistletoe, Parashant Canyon, near Colorado River, Arizona Deep in a sheltered ravine grew an old mesquite tree. Nestled between its limbs, mistletoe thrived on its ancient host by sending its roots beneath the bark to access nutrients #GrandCanyon #Arizona #desert #photography #mistletoe

Needle Rock, Dead Fawn, Cape Blanco, Oregon A few years ago, I came upon a fawn nestled in the grass. It looked peaceful in death. The sea was calm, the air still, and the sun intensely bright. Needle Rock cast its long shadow across the beach. #OregonCoast #Oregon #photography #CapeBlanco #PNW

Water Drop, Ice Storm, Falmouth, Maine A 2008 storm coated trees and power lines with thick ice. After it passed, I sat beneath bent, ice-coated willow branches and captured a drop striking a pool directly in front of the lens as the shutter clicked. #ice #Maine #photography #waterdrop #Winter

Sunset, Chimney Rock, Ute Mountain Tribal Park, Colorado The setting sun revealed the scene’s subtle colors and textures. As the day grayed into dusk, it reminded me of how haunting the red rock canyonlands are at this hour. #Colorado #RedRockCountry #canyonlands #photography #sunset #landscape

Frozen Sand, Provincetown Dunes, Cape Cod, Massachusetts In winter, along this coast, storm winds blow sand, burying snowfall. Patches of surface cracks and dimpled hummocks form as the snow beneath alternately melts and freezes. #CapeCod #Provincetown #dunes #photography #landscape #WinterThaw

Winter Sun, Mount Lamborn, Paonia, Colorado During the winter, winds carry moisture from the Pacific Ocean. pushed up against the abrupt slope of Mount Lamborn, clouds formed, and a vaporous shroud veiled the sun like a spiritual apparition. #Colorado #mountains #clouds #photography #spiritual

Dusk, Low Tide, Lincoln Beach, Oregon Water drains from beneath Lincoln Beach’s bluffs, forming meandering streams that cross the wide sand beach to reach the Pacific Ocean’s shore. At low tide, ripples in the sand are left by waves and currents. #PacificOcean #LincolnBeach #Oregon #landscape

Sea Ice, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Prince Edward Island, Canada Prince Edward Island’s coast marks the southernmost extent of seasonal sea ice in North America. Thirty years ago, I watched the ice oscillate as gentle swells rolled beneath it. #PrinceEdwardIsland #photography #SeaIce #beach #winter

AA Lava, Volcanic Field, El Pinacate, Sonoran Desert, Mexico This strangely alluring territory felt primal; the Earth's burning interior reached out toward space, then was cooled by water and air into this tower. #SonoranDesert #Mexico #lava #volcanoes #ElPinacate

Above Imperial Rapid, Cataract Canyon, Utah The new day’s first rays illuminated the canyon rim. In the pooled water above Imperial Rapids, reflections from the canyon walls highlighted mud-coated stones. #Utah #ColoradoRiver #canyonlands #river

Dying Vine Maple with Hanging Mosses, Hoh Rainforest, Washington In autumn, its leaves turn a vibrant shade of red. Its bark and tentacled branches, coated with mosses and lichens, lend an ethereal appearance. #photography #WashingtonState #OlympicNationalPark #Hoh #rainforest #landscape #nature

Marsh Grass and Glacial Erratic, near Eastham, Massachusetts Ten thousand years ago, a glacier left behind the sand and rocks that formed New England’s outermost shoreline. This erratic appeared as a softly glowing wonder arisen from the marsh. #photography #landscape #CapeCod

Tumalo Falls, near Bend, Oregon I hiked to the overlook at the top of the falls. The night before, snow had fallen. Later in the morning, the sun broke through, melting the snow, leaving a race at the base of the falls. #photography #landscape #waterfalls #canyons #mountains #Cascades #Oregon

Looking Southwest, Mouth of Palm Canyon, Kofa Mountains, Arizona These shaded walls of rhyolite, a volcanic rock that easily fractures into vertical ramparts framing the canyon’s entrance, and the flat, expansive La Posa Plain below. #photography #landscape #arizona #canyon #desert #wildwest

Schoodic Island near Winter Harbor, Maine The elevated view east provides a broad panorama of the Gulf of Maine. Schoodic Island serves as a nesting sanctuary for eagles and seabirds. On an autumn evening, the ocean lies almost still. #photography #Landscape #Maine #Acadia #Atlantic #Coast

Neahkahnie Viewpoint, near Manzanita, Oregon Waves generated across thousands of miles of the Pacific crash onto the shore in a steady rhythm of breaking swells, forming seafoam where the fog-bound coast meets a radiantly blue ocean and sky. #photography #landscape #Oregon #OregonCoast #Pacific

Muley Point Overlook, above the San Juan River, Utah During twilight, the landscape shifts from dun-colored to iridescent hues of red, magenta, and purple. The buttes of Arizona’s Monument Valley contour the far horizon. #landscape #photography #Utah #SanJuanRiver #canyonlands #geology #beauty

Cirque, Mount Sopris, Elk Mountain Range, Colorado I took this photograph along Mt. Sopris’ eastern ridge in the late afternoon after a recent snowfall, feeling vertiginous while captivated by the cirque's nearly vertical landscape. #photography #landscape #colorado #mountains #sopris #geology

Buckskin Gulch, Paria Canyon, Utah As I ventured into the slot canyon, the walls closed in, forming a stunning yet phobic space. At its entrance, I photographed this muraled rock face of stained sandstone, illuminated by reflected sunlight. #photography #landscape #Arizona #Utah #slotcanyon #beauty

Deep Cove, Deer Isle, Maine The soft dusk light mingles with the transparent water to reveal the near shore’s sandy and gravelly till, sediments from ancient glaciers. It seems as if one could wade into a bath of light. #photography #beaches #Maine #DeerIsle #Ocean #evening #landscape #Haystack

Dawn, Little Tipsoo Lake, Mt. Rainier, and Yakima Peak, Washington A grassy meadow of wildflowers and spruce trees surrounds the lake. Mount Rainier dominates the horizon, its peak rising above a ridge of rugged volcanic pinnacles. #LandscapePhotography #MtRainier #WashingtonState #nature

Pictographs, Canyon del Muerto, Arizona Canyon Del Muerto features pictographs from different periods of indigenous habitation. The canyon is part of a national monument that preserves a record of over 5,000 years of occupancy from the Ancestral Puebloans to the Navajo. #pictographs #landscapes

Saddle below Electric Pass, Elk Mountain Range, Colorado In central Colorado, the Elk Mountain Range outlines the western perimeter of the Rockies. Between two peaks, lies a connecting ridge, a 'saddle', where I rested and took this photograph. #colorado #landscapephotography #westernlandscape

East Fork, Upper Kaibito Canyon, Arizona Hundreds of slot canyons carve the Colorado Plateau, which spans southern Utah and northern Arizona. Hidden in the canyon’s shadowed depths, this V-shaped crevasse closed in on itself. #photography #slotcanyons #Arizona #beauty #geology #kaibito #landscape

View Facing North from Paulina Peak, Newberry Crater, Oregon Paulina Peak is the highest point along the rim surrounding the collapsed Newberry Volcano. Resting on a thin layer of the Earth’s crust, the caldera remains volcanically active. #photography #Oregon #volcanoes #landscape #clouds #lakes

Kiger and Mosquito Gorges, Steens Mountain, Oregon Glaciers carved out Steens Mountain's dramatic basins in southeastern Oregon. A sharp divide separates two diverging valleys: Kiger Gorge on the left and Mosquito Gorge to the right. #photography #Oregon #NaturePhotography #mountains #glaciers

Rainbow, Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado During the summer monsoon season, clouds form, grow, and rise off the shoulders of central Colorado's Elk Mountain Range. A final streak of daylight cuts through, partially illuminating a rainbow. #photography #rainbow #colorado #AspenColorado #clouds

Shadow, Playa near Black Rock Point, Black Rock Desert, Nevada As the late-day shadow lengthened from the elevated rim on the western edge of this one-square-mile desert bed, it stretched until it intersected with my spectral shadow. #photography #BlackRockDesert #Nevada #desert #shadow

Canyon of the Yellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Below me, the river noisily rushed through its narrow channel. The canyon’s soft, fragile rock erodes quickly and rusts, creating a range of warm-colored hues. #photography #Yellowstone #YellowstoneRiver

Paulina Creek, Oregon Central Oregon’s Paulina Creek plunges over an 80-foot waterfall, draining water from Paulina Lake, which lies within a basin formed after the collapse of the Newberry Volcano that first erupted 600,000 years ago. #photograph #landscape #volcanoes #Oregon

Toe of Saskatchewan Glacier, Columbia Icefield, Alberta, Canada Once, the glacier scraped against the base of cliffs at the top of the photograph. Today, melting ice surpasses snow accumulation and could vanish within the next century. #photography #geology #glaciers #BanffNationalPark #Canada

Sheaves Cove, Port au Port Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada The ocean’s surface acts like a liquid lens, bending light to magnify and distort the rounded stones. The water’s movement continually reshapes them, creating a pulsing dance of light. #photography #landscape #ocean #Newfoundland #beauty

Twin Lakes Basin, Crystal Range, Desolation Wilderness, High Sierra, California The Desolation Wilderness in the northern Sierra Nevada Range offered a rare and soothing reprieve where solitude became a welcome companion. #photography #landscape #geology #sierranevada #california