Fine Art Photography
Glacier Ice on Beach - Jokulsarlon
Jökulsárlón is the largest glacier lagoon or lake in Iceland. Situated in south eastern Iceland, at the head of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier branching from the Vatnajökull, between Skaftafell National Park and Höfn, it evolved into a lagoon after the glacier started receding from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.
Boating on Lake Powell
Glen Canyon - Lake Powell
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Icelandic Horses
The Icelandic horse is a breed of horse developed in Iceland. Although the horses are small, at times pony-sized, most registries for the Icelandic refer to it as a horse. Icelandic horses are late-developers, but are also long-lived and hardy. In their native country they have few diseases; Icelandic law prevents horses from being imported into the country and exported animals are not allowed to return. The breed has now been bred pure in Iceland for more than 1,000 years.
Wood Boring Beetle
Wood Boring Beetle - Polybothris sumptuosa gemma, Madagascar (1.5” long)
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Rainbow Over Dettifoss Falls
Dettifoss definitely blew us away with its sheer size and power. Perhaps a waterfall so wild and fierce was befitting of an area that just screamed natural and raw as it flowed on the glacial river Jökulsá á Fjöllum meandering through Iceland's version of the Grand Canyon – Jökulsárgljúfur.
Restless Surf, Basaltic Sea Cliffs, Dyrholaey
The small peninsula, or promontory, Dyrhólaey (120m) (formerly known as Cape Portland by English seamen) is located on the south coast of Iceland, not far from Vík í Mýrdal. It was formerly an island of volcanic origin, which is also known by the Icelandic word eyja meaning island.
Ancient Lava Field Covered with Moss on the Southern Coast
The climate of Iceland's coast is subpolar oceanic. The warm North Atlantic Current ensures generally higher annual temperatures than in most places of similar latitude in the world. Constant coastal mist produce four inch thick blankets on aa lava fields. Every precarious footstep seems an insult to this rich botanical carpet.
Canyonlands National Monument (southern region), Utah
Canyonlands National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southeastern Utah.
The Needles district is located east of the Colorado River and is named after the red and white banded rock pinnacles which dominate it, but various other forms of naturally sculptured rock such as canyons, grabens, potholes, and a number of arches similar to the ones of the nearby Arches National Park can be found as well.From North America
Dettifoss Water Falls
The falls flows at about 500 cubic meters per second at high flow, with dimensions of 44m tall and 100m wide. Add it all up and we witnessed a monster that is quite possibly Europe's largest and most powerful waterfall (let alone Iceland's biggest). The milky color of the waterfall is due to the fact that the massive river is fed by the sediment-rich meltwaters of the vast Vatnajökull glacier.
Sellfoss Falls
Selfoss is a waterfall in the river Jökulsá á Fjöllum in the north of Iceland which drops over some waterfalls about 30 km before flowing into Öxarfjörður, a bay of the Arctic Sea.
Mexican Wolf, Canis lupus baileyi, Arizona
The Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) is a subspecies of the Gray Wolf. It is native to North America, where it is the rarest and most genetically distinct subspecies.
Cherry Blossoms, Branch Brook Park, New Jersey
Branch Brook Park is a county park of Essex County, New Jersey in the United States, located in the North Ward of Newark, between the neighborhoods of Forest Hill and Roseville. At 360 acres, Branch Brook Park is the largest public park in the city of Newark. The park is noted for having over 4,000 cherry blossom trees in more than fourteen different varieties, collectively called Cherryblossomland, as well as its spectacular Cherry Blossom Festival each April.
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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet.
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. In many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry" with an apostrophe. It is situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia meet. The town is located on a low-lying flood plain created by the two rivers and surrounded by higher ground. Historically, Harpers Ferry is best known for John Brown's raid on the Armory in 1859 and its role in the American Civil War. As of the 2009 United States Census Bureau estimates, the town had a population of 313.From North America
Meandering Waters of Glen Canyon - Lake Powell
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (NRA) preserves and protects 1.2 million acres of the Colorado Plateau, a vast landscape of colorful buttes, mesas, canyons, and cliffs. Arid to semi-arid, the region supports a complex and often fragile ecosystem. Plants and wildlife have developed unique adaptations to the hot, arid conditions of their environment and contribute to the rich diversity of life in the area. Typical of the Colorado Plateau, the highly diverse vegetation of Glen Canyon NRA forms different communities that create important habitat for a diverse range of animals including amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates.
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Medicine Lake, Canadian Rockies, Alberta
Medicine Lake also boasts a healthy population of rainbow trout and brook trout and is a fly fisherman's paradise. Wildlife is surprisingly abundant along this high altitude lake. Grizzly bear, black bear, mule deer, caribou, wolves, moose, and mountain sheep are some of the larger mammals that frequent the lake area during the summer season. Bald eagles, and osprey also frequent the area and live off the fish populations.
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Monument Valley Arizona
Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft above the valley floor. It is located on the southern border of Utah with northern Arizona, near the Four Corners area.
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The Mittens - Monument Valley, Arizona
Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft above the valley floor. It is located on the southern border of Utah with northern Arizona, near the Four Corners area.
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The Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of New York. Located on the Niagara River which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world, with a vertical drop of more than 165 feet. Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America.
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Dinosaur National Monument
Green River Cutting through Geology of Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado… And ageless cedar tree!
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Land of the Standing-Up Rocks
Land of the Standing-Up Rocks, Volcanic rhyolite Deposition, Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona
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Navajo Sandstone Geology
Navajo Sandstone Geology, Monument Valley, Arizona
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Weevil, Eupholus magnificus
Weevil, Eupholus magnificus (.75” across)
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Abberant Ammonite Fossil, Ancyloceras matheranianum, Lower Cretaceous, Russia
Ammonites are the common name given to the Ammonoidea, an extinct order of cephalopods. These relatives of today's squid, octopi, and Nautilus were abundant, intelligent, active, and predatory molluscs that lived in shallow (100 meters or less) marine environments throughout the world.
Icelandic Horses in Pasture
Developed from ponies taken to Iceland by Scandinavian settlers in the 9th and 10th centuries, the breed is mentioned in literature and historical records throughout Icelandic history; the first reference to a named horse appears in the 12th century. Horses were venerated in Norse mythology, a custom brought to Iceland by the country's earliest settlers. Selective breeding over the centuries has developed the breed into its current form.
Kilauea Lava Flow entering the sea, 2001 August, Big Island of Hawaii
Kilauea is an active volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five shield volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaii. It is the most recent of a series of volcanoes that have created the Hawaiian archipelago, as the Pacific Plate moves over the Hawaii hotspot. Kilauea means "spewing" or "much spreading" in the Hawaiian language, referring to its frequent outpouring of lava. The Puʻu ʻŌʻō cone has been continuously erupting in the eastern rift-zone since 1983, making it the longest rift-zone eruption of the last 200 years. Thirty-four eruptions have taken place since 1952, not including the current episode. Lava less than 1000 years old covers 90% of Kilauea and the volume of erupted material is large enough to pave a road across the world three times.
Dandelion Seeds Study
Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are native to Eurasia and North America, and two species, T. officinale and T. erythrospermum, are found as weeds worldwide.
Marine Reptile, Mosasaurus, Cretaceous Oceans, Belgium
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Dry Ice, Frozen Carbon Dioxide
Dry ice, sometimes referred to as "Cardice" or as "card ice" is the solid form of carbon dioxide. Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide (chemical formula: CO2), comprising two oxygen atoms bonded to a single carbon atom. It is colorless, odorless, non-flammable, and slightly acidic.
Mauna Loa Eruption, Big Island of Hawaii
Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on Earth in terms of volume and area covered and one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. It is an active shield volcano, with a volume estimated at approximately 18,000 cubic miles.
Native Copper, Ajo, Arizona
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (Latin: cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal, with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is rather soft and malleable, and a freshly exposed surface has a reddish-orange color. It is used as a thermal conductor, an electrical conductor, a building material, and a constituent of various metal alloys.
Plesippus shoshoensis, Fossil Horse Head, Pliocene,Hagerman Lake, Idaho
Plesippus is often considered an intermediary stage between Dinohippus and the present day genus, Equus. The famous fossils found near Hagerman, Idaho were originally thought to be a part of the genus Plesippus Hagerman Fossil Beds (in Idaho), a Pliocene site, dating about 3.5 Mya ago.
Scolecite, Mahodori Quarry, Nasik, India
Scolecite is a tectosilicate mineral belonging to the zeolite group; it is a hydrated calcium silicate. Scolecite, like natrolite and mesolite, usually occurs as acicular (needle-like) and fibrous aggregations. It has nearly the same angles between the crystal faces as does natrolite, but natrolite is orthorhombic and scolecite is monoclinic.
Six-spotted Green Tiger Beetle Cicindela sexguttata
Adult beetles are fast runners and fliers. When they fly, they usually stay within three feet of the ground. Tiger beetles catch prey on the ground and in the air. Six-spotted Tiger Beetles eat small insects, spiders, and other arthropods. Favorite foods include other beetles, springtails, sawflies, caterpillars, flies, ants, and grasshoppers.
Green Frog (Rana clamitans)
The Green Frog (Rana clamitans) is a species of frog native to the eastern half of the United States and Canada. Adult green frogs range from 2–4 inches in body length. Males have a tympanum twice the diameter of the eye and a bright yellow throat. Female tympanum diameter is about the same as that of the eye.
Buttermilk Falls State Park; Buttermilk Creek as it cascades dropping about 500 feet along the trail. Buttermilk Falls State Park takes its name from the foaming cascade formed by Buttermilk Creek as it flows down the steep valley side toward Cayuga Lake.
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Approaching Storm, San Xavier Mission, Arizona
Cotton Ready for Harvest - Farming - Marana, Arizona
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Cotton Ready for Harvest - Farming - Marana, Arizona
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