Chair Mountain, Colorado

Maroon Bells and the Milky Way

Grand Canyon From Above

Looking east through a dawn wildfire haze, the Grand Canyon Village sits on the South Rim (right) of Grand Canyon National Park. First protected as a game preserve by President Theodore Roosevelt, the 1,904-square-mile park was finally created in 1919. The Bright Angel Trail is seen descending 4,380 feet from the million-year-old Kaibab Formation to the 1.6-million-year-old Zoroaster Granite on the river.

Autumn Snow

A holdout stand of golden aspens peeks out from beneath an early-season snow in Colorado.

Oxbow

“The Loop” is located six miles above the Green River confluence in Canyonlands National Park, 50 miles downstream of Moab, Utah. The river follows an anticline atop 300-million-year-old salt beds buckling against the weight of more recent rock sediments. In 1964, President Johnson created Canyonlands National Park, as uranium prices fell and allowed him to work around numerous mining claims in the area.

Pulse Flow

A historic pulse flow moving its way across the dry Colorado River Delta, part of a binational agreement for restoration.

Antarctica Graham Land by Kayak and sailboat.

Nankoweap Glow

The Nankoweap granaries light up at night during a trip through the Grand Canyon.

Grand Canyon Storm

Walking the Hopi Salt trail to Phantom Ranch through the Grand Canyon - a storm barrels down the Tonto Trail. Captured above 75-mile Canyon.

Namibia Oryx

B&W Leopard

A leopard in a tree in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.

B&W Orca

Skjervoy, Norway. An orca swims in the frigid water during the winter herring migration.

Elephant Rumble

Using receptors in their trunks and padded feet, elephants can hear frequencies 20 times lower than humans and can communicate via the vibrations up to six miles away. This one rumbled over the landscape of Malawi.

The Confluence

The overlook where the Grand Escalade tram project would ferry up to 10,000 people a day to the confluence of the Little Colorado and Colorado Rivers below. While the Navajo tribe has opposed the project, raising an array of concerns, the developers continue to pursue the project.

Marble Canyon and Navajo Reservatio from the air.

Color corrected selects from Navajo Reservation above confluence for stitching for Panoramic

Kanab Point Monsoon

Antarctica Graham Land by Kayak and sailboat.

Castle Valley

A rarely-frozen river plods through Castle Valley, Utah - a landscape created by the unstoppable movement of salt. Forty million years ago, huge rivers not unlike the Colorado swept west carrying away mountains, carving canyons through mesas, and punching out sandstone arches solidified from earlier dunes.

Synella Shadow

Mt. Synella in the Grand Canyon.

Stars Over the Elk Mountains

Golden Aspens

Aspen trees glow in the morning light of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness.

Heli Alley

A merge of 8 hours of traffic in one of the busiest air tour sections in the Grand Canyon, commonly referred to as "Heli Alley."

Jet Traffic Merge

A photographic merge of six hours of jet traffic in July in western Colorado.

Black Sand Beach

An iconic black sand beach nudges the ocean on the coast of Iceland.