Dawn in the Badlands at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, Nevada, immerses the landscape in a unique atmosphere. The wind reaches storm intensity to compensate for the extreme temperature differences between the hot valley floor and the rather cool air of the elevated...
Fly Geyser spouts fountains of boiling water into the backlight of the morning sun in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. But the almost unreal beauty of the geyser is ephemeral. Its appearance changes continuously. Such seemingly extraterrestrial landscapes are rare on...
The Fly Geyser in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada appears like a landscape fallen out of time from a distant planet. Boiling hot, mineral-rich water emerges from seven openings, harboring a community of life that takes us back to the dawn of life itself. The...
At sunset, the Crater Lake volcano in the Cascade Range of Oregon is shrouded in the smoke of a wildfire ignited by a lightning strike. The devastating eruption of the stratovolcano Mount Mazama 6,900 years ago emptied the interior of the volcano. Under its own...
At moonrise, Mount Rainier in Washington is mirrored at night in the Reflection Lakes, with the stars of the Milky Way rising behind the volcano. The Reflection Lakes are becoming increasingly shallow and smaller as aquatic vegetation takes root and mud accumulates on...
