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Description: Who doesn’t love a plump, little marmot? Location: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, North America Camera: Canon R5 + 100-500mm L lens Photograph Copyright Peter West Carey. Image Available For Continue Reading →
Description: The weather has improved after a solid rainstorm in the night in Grand Teton National Park. So much so that we had a classic sunset. But, as you may know Continue Reading →
Description: I got lucky and scored the last spot on a tour of the Grand Palace of Lehman Cave in Great Basin National Park. And boy, was it worth it. The Continue Reading →
Description: No, this isn’t a political post. It’s the path across the salt flats in Death Valley National Park. Location: Death Valley National Park, California, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D & 28-300mm Continue Reading →
Description: If you’re wracking your mind thinking, “Where in the US Springbrook National Park?“, take a breath. It’s in Australia where their National Parks are as numerous as our state parks, Continue Reading →
Description: Sunsets at the Grand Canyon bring the rocks to life in a way you don’t get at midday. Location: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA, North America Camera: Canon 7D & Continue Reading →
Description: I love bears. From a distance. And what safer place to be than on the water, but within telephoto range of this mama and her cubs along the shore of Continue Reading →
Description: It’s a good time of year right now to visit Death Valley National Park, before the temperatures likely set new high records this summer. The colors and patterns all around Continue Reading →
Description: A road leads to the summit crater of Haleakala, the major peak of the island of Maui, and also a National Park. Across the channel you can see Mauna Kea Continue Reading →
Description: So far this week has been all wet, so let’s dry off in a high and dry location: Bryce Canyon National Park The hoodoos you see here have been sculpted Continue Reading →
Description: Still flashing back to Fall in Yosemite National Park. Just for a little while longer. With all the snow they have had this past month, it’s a totally different landscape. Continue Reading →
Description: Still flashing back to Fall in Yosemite National Park. It takes patience, but you can imagine the park and all its fall foliage all to yourself. Location: Yosemite National Park, Continue Reading →
Description: The title kind of says it all as we are staying put with Yosemite National Park photos for now, most of which were taken back in October during the height Continue Reading →
Description: Take a look at yesterday’s photo. Now imagine hiking up the valley to Half Dome in the distance. Bear left a little and then hike up the side of the Continue Reading →
Description: I’m the sucker who always stops at Tunnel View in Yosemite National Park to gawk at the magnificence of Yosemite Valley. If a time comes when I pass by without Continue Reading →
Description: The road to Kings Canyon National Park is a windy jaunt away from major roads. That’s one reason it gets about half the visitors as nearby Sequoia National Park. Continue Reading →
Description: Not to be outdone by all those Alaska Layers yesterday and the day before, Olympic National Park on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula holds its own. Title: Olympic National Park Layers Location: Continue Reading →
Description: Remember that post two days ago about Phortse? You can juuuust barely see it in the left of this trail photo as two of my guests take photos of the Continue Reading →
Description: Truth be known, there are five lakes up the valley where Gokyo sits and they are often called First Lake, Second Lake, etc… But as this lake is the lake Continue Reading →
Description: Every landscape photographer’s dream: Sun shine on a National Park with beautifully contrasting colors and puffy clouds above. It helped that the temperature was around 72°. Title: Beautiful Bryce Canyon Continue Reading →
Description: It looks a little lopsided to be a good hammer, but if this is where the God of Thunder left it, so be it! Title: Thor’s Hammer, Up Close Location: Continue Reading →
Description: Let’s stay in Nepal after yesterday’s return to the continent. I’m not actually there right now, but I am dreaming about returning (shameless plug: Join me in Nepal, this Continue Reading →
Description: This photo was taken on a Spring Break trip a few years ago when there was just a smattering of snow left on Half Dome, the massive chunk of Continue Reading →
Description: When the clouds are just the right amount of poofy and the temperatures hover in the 70s, Bryce Canyon is something close to heaven. So much to explore! Title: Continue Reading →
Description: While cormorants are divers for their meals, they don’t have the oils to keep their feathers dry like a penguin. Thus you can find them sunning themselves to dry Continue Reading →
Description: Crater Lake is a favorite National Park of mine for the simple reason that I love the color blue. Every time I have been there has been a sunny, Continue Reading →
Description: Bryce Canyon National Park is certainly one of my favorite places to visit in the US West. It has beautiful sandstone spires, meandering trails, vistas to last a lifetime. Mix Continue Reading →
Description: Building on yesterdays Alaskan Layers photo of the day, let’s shift a little south and a little more desolate. Death Valley actually has quite a bit of color in Continue Reading →
Description: The Painted Hills of Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument was on my list for a ages and then a couple years ago it resurfaced when friend and Continue Reading →
Description: Not all adventures in Nepal take you to the soaring heights of the Himalayas. Some take you down to about 300’/100m above sea level and Nepal’s fabled Chitwan National Park. Continue Reading →
Description: Depending on your direction of travel, this is either the first or last grand view you will likely have of Mount Everest (Sagarmatha). The trail at this point is mostly Continue Reading →
Description: Unlike yesterday’s photo of the gharial crocodile, its Rapti River cousin, the mugger, is a bit more stout. It has a larger range than the gharial, extending across the Indian Continue Reading →
Description: What is going on with this crocodile? Look at the length of that snout! And those teeth! This is a gharial, a fish-eating crocodile found in the Northern latitudes of Continue Reading →
Description: The views from 16,600’/5060m can be pretty spectacular. You get to see things from that height that you don’t see from the valleys. Such as the valley fog parting just Continue Reading →
Description: Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! Your morning view today is of Machermo Peak deep in the Himalayas. This location is about a week’s walk from the Continue Reading →