Favorite landscapes

 

I don't spend a lot of time shooting landscapes. But in my travels I have seen some breathtaking beauty, like these foggy, snowy mountains stretching to the ocean in Antarctica. I'm pleased to present some of my favorite landscapes.

King penguins rest in a glacial creek in front of glacier-covered mountains on South Georgia Island.

A fiinback whale cruises through the Chiswell Islands in Alaska.

Spring.

Summer.

Fall. 

The seasons at Denali's Polychrome Pass. 

Grizzlies wander the sagebrush flats of Hellroaring Creek in Yellowstone.

A sea cave in the Chiswell Islands offers a peek at distant mountains.

Antarctica's undeveloped coastline and amazing glaciers made for easy landscape pics like this one with the Ortelius.

I wasn't prepared for all the vibrant colors I would see on South Georgia. I think this pic would make a good jigsaw puzzle!

A tabular iceberg the size of a small town rises over the Southern Ocean. 

If a landscape has wildlife in it, so much the better. Wildebeest graze on a hillside in Kenya's Maasai Mara.

The yellow fever trees of Kenya's Lake Nakuru are unmistakable. And this crash of white rhinos settling down for a nap under one made the photo.

Rip curl waves are unusual in New Jersey, so getting a pic of this one from the end of a jetty off Avalon was a treat.

Noted.

The cloud forests of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest were mysterious and foreboding on the morning I visited. 

An inviting road heads off into Red Rock Canyon outside Las Vegas.

Lucky shot. I captured a lightning bolt while photographing this rainbow over the tundra in Denali.

I made a pilgrimage to see Walden Pond in Massachusetts. I'm a fan of his credo: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Cades Cove is a dream for landscapes. I liked this moody scene with the first morning sun peeking through the mists.

Places where the ocean meets the land are always ready spots for photos. This is a deserted strand in Australia's Daintree Rainforest.

The Daintree is the world's oldest rainforest.

Waterfalls always make welcome photo subjects for landscapes. And Murchison Falls on the White Nile River in Uganda was no exception. This is where Ernest Hemingway crashed after his plane struck a telegraph wire over the river. The rescue plane that picked him up also crashed!

I'm an opportunistic wildlife photographer, so I just happened on this pretty picture at the Cape May County Park. I must have walked past this gazebo a million times while playing Frisbee golf here before noticing the photo possibilities on a perfect fall Sunday.

This is the only clear shot I ever captured of what people in Denali just call the mountain.

This was the last shot of one of my longest days of wildlife photography. I was up early to take a floatplane from Homer to Katmai National Park to photograph bears. And when I got back to my campsite on the beach in Homer that night, I was dead tired. It was 11 p.m. in the Land of the Midnight Sun when these two eagles landed just outside my tent at the water's edge. So I grudgingly got out of my warm sleeping bag and grabbed my camera from the car to snag a couple shots of this screaming eagle protesting the other's attempts to steal its fish in front of foggy, snowy mountains. I checked to see if it was in focus and then fell fast asleep! It turned out to be one of my fav pics.