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

Coyote Buttes, Vermillion Cliffs, Utah Cross-bedded dunes solidified into sandstone eroded into the striking landforms of Coyote Buttes. Time and wind had worn their edges into delicate fins, striped bands, and swirling ribbons of color. #photography #landscape #geology #Utah #beauty #rocks

Moraine Lake, Valley of Ten Peaks, near Banff, Alberta The lake was eerily still on the summer solstice evening, just before midnight. It appeared otherworldly, emitting a faint glow that mirrored the surrounding snow-covered mountains. #photography #landscape #Banff #lake #geology #beautiful

Decaying Ponderosas, Fremont Point, above Summer Lake, Oregon These dead trunks and branches are remnants of long-lived ponderosas on the lofty rim of Winter Ridge overlooking southern Oregon’s high desert. #photography #ponderosa #Oregon #high-desert #trees #wilderness #landscape-photography

Spring Runoff, Shoshone Falls, Idaho Plunging 212 feet, the falls formed 14,000 years ago from a cataclysmic flood, shaping the Snake River Canyon. For the Shoshone people, it once marked the limit of migrating salmon. #photography #geology #rivers #Idaho #rainbow #shoshonefalls #waterfall

Head of Sinbad, San Rafael Swell, Utah The Head of Sinbad is the highest point on a vast plateau in central Utah. Rain and wind have carved a section of the cliff face into an archaic column reminiscent of an arabesque monolith. #photography #nature #Utah #landscape #geology #nature-photography

Whale Cove, Lake Tahoe, California At this time of year, sunlight penetrates deep into Lake Tahoe, making the blue hues of its depths vivid and its sandy shallows luminous. #photography #nature #lake #california #landscape #tahoe #art #water #geology #spring #vacation

Yampa River near Confluence with Green River, Colorado Mirrored in the Yampa River, a 1,500-foot butte overlooks the convergence of two major tributaries of the Colorado River, marking the northern boundary of the red rock canyonlands. #photography #landscape #nature #colorado #greenriver #rivers

Ebb Tide, Cousin's Shore, Prince Edward Island, Canada This image gives the impression that time has stopped; everything seems perpetually fixed in place. And it appears so spare that it could have been made anywhere. #photography #landscape #nature #canada #ocean #beach #atlanticocean #pei

Sun Dog, Bristol Dry Lake, Mojave Desert, California Sundogs are a halo created by the interaction of sunlight and cirrus clouds. This seasonal lake is lined with salt-rich sediments collected from the surrounding mountains. #photography #landscape #nature #california #atmosphere #art #lake

Slickhorn Canyon, near San Juan River, Utah A mile upstream from its confluence with southern Utah’s San Juan River, Slickhorn Canyon shelters an alcove teeming with plants and wildlife. #nature #photography #landscape #geology #desert #americanwest #redrock #wilderness #rivers #rocks

Ke 'e Beach, Kauai, Hawaii On Kauai's north shore lies a beautiful and popular beach protected by an offshore reef from May to October. However, high surf in the winter erodes the beach and exposes the roots of this Casuarina tree. #photography #landscape #kauai #hawaii #nature #beach #pacific

Ebb Tide, Elliott Bay, Puget Sound, near Seattle, Washington An oscillating swell created by wind and tidal currents courses diagonally to ship waves, resulting in a rippling effect called a ‘cross sea,’ which creates a subtle moiré pattern. #landscapephotography #nature #photography #seattle

Spring Melt, Grand Falls of the Little Colorado River, Arizona Grand Falls lies within a remote basin traversed by the Little Colorado River. In early spring, snowmelt washes down muddy sediment, tinting the river ochre. #photography #arizona #nature #landscape #grandcanyon #southwest

Steins Pillar, Ochoco Mountains, Oregon Forty million years ago, volcanic eruptions released pumice and ash that fused into solid rock. As it eroded, the rock fractured into the 350-foot-high Steins Pillar. #nature #landscape #photography #geology #volcanoes

Tree Rubbings, Choprock Canyon, Escalante River, Utah This cliff chronicled its geologic history in a palette of tones and textures on smooth Wingate Sandstone. A cottonwood tree’s swaying branches once produced these sweeping marks. #escalante #utah #canyonlands #nature #photography #landscape

Drift Log, Rialto Beach, Olympic Peninsula, Washington Sometimes described as a graveyard of trees, each skeleton of wood, embalmed in salt and bleached by the sun, exhibits a rough-hewn grace, expressively rendering its final gesture. #driftwood #photography #landscape #nature #pacific

Joshua Tree, Joshua Tree National Park, California At first glance, Joshua trees resemble Dr. Seuss’s Truffula trees. However, they are not actually trees but rather succulents from the genus Yucca. With climate change, they may disappear by 2100. #Joshuatree #naturephotography #california

Mystery Falls, Zion Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah The deep, narrow canyon is painted by a ribbon of deep blue skylight, accentuated by the sunlit red sandstone of its rim, producing a subtle blend of colors across the waterfall’s damp surface. #zion #utah #waterfall #nature #landscape #photo

Sun Halo, Needle Rock, Cape Blanco, Oregon Needle Rock, backlit by the midday sun, appeared imposing against the soft, haloed light. Sun halos, while uncommon, refract sunlight to create a bright circle around the sun. #oregon #photography #landscape #geology #nature #seastacks #capeblanco #halo

Petrified Tree Trunk, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona A piece of petrified wood from an extinct conifer tree 220 million years ago is balanced on a crumbling pedestal. #nature #landscape #photo #arizona #petrifiedwood #desert

Live Oaks and Spanish Moss, Spring Island, South Carolina Live oaks dominate the island’s native plant life. Long strands of Spanish moss hang from the trees, gathering water for nourishment. #nature #landscape #photo #southcarolina #liveoak #place

Beach Stream, Lincoln Beach, Oregon Flowing across the tidal flats during twilight’s low tide, the stream faithfully mirrors the colors of the sky, transitioning from the deep blue of the zenith to the lingering orange hues of the horizon after sunset. #photography #nature #oregon #landscape