Nature Photos

A Chesapeake Bay work boat stored beneath a cedar tree.

Mountains, lake and trees lit during a breaking storm in Banff Park Canada result in a luminescent landscape.

Winter fog rising from the Kenai River during sub-zero temperatures blankets the land and trees with hoarfrost.

A father and son admiring a red sunset over Milford Haven, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia.

Alpenglow light and blue shadow paint Mt Spurr volcano and the winter landscape with color on a sub-zero morning. (As seen from the Kenai Peninsula)

Early winter in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska.

A setting moon above the Alaska Range with hoarfrost-coated spruce trees during sub-zero temperatures. The sky is colored by alpenglow and the Earth's shadow.

Fog, frost and low-angle light over the Kenai River on an Alaska winter day.

Mt. Iliamna volcano as seen from Kachemak Bay at sunset.

Sunrise over a Kenai Peninsula lake with mountains in the background.

The upper Kenai River, Chugach Mountains and Alaska fall colors.

A tree at sunrise on a Chesapeake Bay beach.

A southern Utah farm scene. Angus cattle graze as early morning fog rises from a river beyond cottonwood trees.

As fog lifts, soft light illuminates a stand of bald cypress trees reflected on a mirror-calm pond.

Trees along the shoreline of Skilak Lake.

A red-tailed hawk surrounded by starlings while perched on a dead cottonwood tree, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.

Germany Valley is a beautiful upland valley high in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia. Although much of it remains in private hands, portions are within the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area of the Monongahela National Forest.

An atypical leaf of a palmetto palm. Normally the yellow rings are not present.

Early morning fog shrouds a coastal cypress pond.

A fall-colored cottonwood tree against a blue sky, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico.

Early morning fog shrouds a coastal cypress pond, bald cypress trees reflecting in still waters.

A water powered mill where grain was ground, lumber sawed and cotton ginned.

St Augustine volcano and Cook Inlet at sunset as seen from Homer Alaska.

Kachemak Bay and an islet at sunset.