Basin and Range Gallery

Moments of Eternity

Getting hot feet while listening to the spouting Fly Geyser with the Milky Way above is a strangely delightful moment of eternity

The dried up Badwater salt lake in Death Valley is 86 m below sea-level. A new ocean basin forms here, ripping the American continent apart

Living bristlecone pines up to 5000 years old enjoy their view into deep space at lofty heights in the White Mountains of California

The seething breath of the earth in the back light of the morning sun at Fly Geyser in Nevada illustrates what Earth looked like at the beginning

At Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, the Badlands of the Furnace Creek Lake sediments are colored by former hydrothermal activity

Fly Geyser in Nevada continuously expels hot water. Thermophilic bacteria that thrive on it paint the geyser into its colorful splendor