Photo Gallery: Landscapes

I’ve had the good fortune to travel all around the world, exploring Earth’s incredible environments. It’s hard to capture such magnificence on camera, but I still try, if only to spark my own memories when it’s all gone (but I’d rather spark people’s determination to preserve it).

Check out the Adventures category on my blog for additional photographs, and the stories behind the shots.

A rainbow spans a rugged coastal gorge. Jade-green water slithers between the sandstone cliffs, as if pouring through the rainbow's gate.
A coastal twilight scene. Grey rocks pile in the foreground; silvery-blue waves lap a dark beach in the foreground. In the background, against a pink-streaked sky, a high bluff and several jagged offshore rocks stand in silhouette.
A slot canyon ripples like rocky ribbon candy, striped in shades of pink and brown,
A raven perches on a low glacier ridge in the foreground. Behind, two rugged peaks--one of blue-tinted ice, one of brown stone--rise toward the blue sky.
Pine trees in the foreground mirror the red and white sandstone pinnacles towering in the background.
Across an azure bay scrawled with foamy white breakers, two rugged flat-topped mountains rise from a jungle island.
Desert stone ripples through the foregroud, heading toward a distant pinnacle. A small trail-marker cairn made of piled rocks mimics a lenticular cloud overhead.
Teal waves lap a rocky beach. Beyond the breakers, the ocean turns deep blue. A far-off sailboat cruises in front of distand jungle hills.
A molten sun peeks above the ocean horizon, turning the slick foreground beach into a mirror that reflects a blue and orange cloud formation. Four silhouetted shorebirds stand atop their own leggy shadows.
A distant cluster of white cottage-like buildings huddles in the ochre grass at the foot of a rocky mountain range. A copse of auburn trees stands below, while stripes of green and gold grass sweep into the foreground.
A line of wooden rowboats, accented in different colors of green and brown paint, nestle beneath lichen-robed trees along a riverbank.
Hot air balloons cluster around distant Telstra Tower, drops of color against blue and pink clouds. Hilly bush land and trees, warmed with sunrise, create golden waves across the foreground.
A trail winds through a misty winter forest. Sunrise sends dazzling rays through the bare trees, illuminating the grey landscape with yellow light.
A primordial coastal cene. Rugged brown rocks etch into a stormy sky, waves breaking behind them. Birds perch on the high points and wheel under the clouds.
A forest waterfall pours down slick dark stone in countless small tiers. Lush greenery fringes the cascade.
A jungle beach with lush mountains in the distance and white-trunked trees in the midground. Up close, the sand forms serpentine ridges; pooled water, reflecting the blue sky, turns the sand to a striated mirror.
A silhouetted pair of swans glides across a foggy river, indistinguishable from the pale sky. Trees along the bank are reflected in grey Rorschach blots.
Blue and orange sunrise reflects on the inky ripples of a lake. Lights dot the far shore, and a distant obelisk glows with violet light.
Kangaroos scamper across a grassy knoll, while in the distance Canberra's Telstra Tower rises from Black Mountain.
An emu strolls down a sandy beach, looking out toward the rough surf.
Two driftwood logs lie twisted on rugged brown stone. A turquoise-blue ocean wave is just breaking over the top of the rocks, foam blending into the clouds behind it.
A pale rainbow streaks through stormy blue clouds. In the image's lower half, windblown wisps of sand drift across a dune like smoke.
A view down a long, curved beach fringed with trees. Turquiose waves lick at rocks speckled with orange lichen. Stormclouds wreath the indigo mountains in the distance.
Morning sun sparkles on breakers as they lap a silvery beach. Beyond, two seagulls sit atop a rock on a silhouetted promontory. Purple-grey clouds mirror the lines of the waves.
A serpentine black-paved highway undulates through a desert landscape of rocks in stunning shades of pink, rust, and ochre.
Across a still lake, slim saffron-colored trees line the opposide bank. Beyond, green hills dotted with neat patterns of trees rise against a pale blue sky.
A pair of sparse, wind-bent trees lean over a stark cottage that sits on a slope of ochre grass and stones. Distand blue mountains edge a paler blue sky, streaked with white clouds.
An aerial view of the South Australian outback. Black alluvial veins slither across red earth. Ridges and peaks of white rise up, giving the landscape a crumpled look.
An aerial view of Lake Torrens in South Australia. A dry alluvial wash shaped like a tree reaches across the bare dust toward distand puddles of salty blue water.
An aerial view of Ikara/Wilpena Pound, a natural basin ringed by rugged red bluffs carpeted in green.
The ruins of a stone homestead stand alone on a prairie, gazing towards a small dead tree in the foreground. Low mountains line the horizon, and a vast stormy sky swallows the top two-thirds of the image.
A snowy landscape, with an inky stream winding away through white marshland towards a mountainous horizon.