This Week's Most Frequently Viewed Images

Stone Steps Beach at Sunset, Aerial Panorama, Encinitas, California.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 38136  

Aerial Photo of Hamilton Cove, Catalina Island.
Location: Avalon, California
Image ID: 38194  

Aerial Photo of Cardiff State Beach and Encinitas Coastline.
Location: Encinitas, California
Image ID: 30792  

Villa del Arco (left), Villa la Estancia (center), Villa del Palmar (right). Residential and resort development along the coast near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Location: Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 28941  

Bull elephant seal, adult male, bellowing. Its huge proboscis is characteristic of male elephant seals. Scarring from combat with other males. Central California.
Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California
Image ID: 15387  

Visitors admire the enormous kelp forest tank in the Stephen Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The 70000 gallon tank is home to black seabass, broomtail grouper, garibaldi, moray eels and leopard sharks.
Location: Stephen Birch Aquarium, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 14543  

Full moon rises over Seattle city skyline, Space Needle at right.
Location: Seattle, Washington
Image ID: 13665  

Full moon rises over Seattle city skyline at dusk, Space Needle at right.
Location: Seattle, Washington
Image ID: 13661  

Aggregating anemones. Arrayed in a clonal group, all of these anemones are genetically identical. San Nicholas Island.
Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima
Location: San Nicholas Island, California
Image ID: 10150  

North Pacific humpback whale, peduncle throw.
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii
Image ID: 02153  

Green abalone with mantle fringe visible extending outside shell.
Species: Green abalone, Haliotis fulgens
Image ID: 09242  

Glory of the Sea cone shell, gold form. The Glory of the Sea cone shell, once one of the rarest and most sought after of all seashells, remains the most famous and one of the most desireable shells for modern collectors.
Species: Glory of the seas cone, Conus gloriamaris
Image ID: 08803  

A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and tuna.
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 07705  

Coronetfish.
Species: Blue-spotted coronetfish, Fistularia commersonii
Location: Maui, Hawaii
Image ID: 07086  

Kelp fronds reach the surface and spread out to form a canopy, Santa Barbara Island.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 06107  

California bat ray swimming amidst giant kelp forest.
Species: California bat ray, Macrocystis pyrifera, Myliobatis californica
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 03414  

Isla Afuera, Guadalupe Island, daybreak.
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 03698  

The Bellagio Hotel reflected in the fountain pool at night. The Bellagio Hotel fountains are one of the most popular attractions in Las Vegas, showing every half hour or so throughout the day, choreographed to famous Hollywood music.
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Image ID: 20572  

Red rock shrimp.
Species: Red rock shrimp, Lysmata californica
Image ID: 08641  

Aerial view of Medano Beach in Cabo San Lucas, showing many resorts along the long white sand beach.
Location: Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 28883  

River Seine and Notre Dame Cathedral at Sunrise. Notre Dame de Paris ("Our Lady of Paris"), also known as Notre Dame Cathedral or simply Notre Dame, is a historic Roman Catholic Marian cathedral on the eastern half of the Ile de la Cite in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. Widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and among the largest and most well-known churches in the world ever built, Notre Dame is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris.
Location: Notre Dame de Paris, France
Image ID: 28210  

The Thinker (Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture on marble pedestal by Auguste Rodin. now in the Musee Rodin in Paris. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle. It is often used to represent philosophy.
Location: Musee Rodin, Paris, France
Image ID: 28173  

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). The Nike of Samothrace, discovered in 1863, is estimated to have been created around 190 BC.
Location: Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Image ID: 28102  

Leucadia beach and coastline, sunset.
Location: Leucadia, Encinitas, California
Image ID: 27380  

Sunrise on morros near south end of Guadalupe Island.
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 03706  

Hubbs Hall at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 26539  

Palos Verdes Peninsula, overlooking the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles.
Image ID: 25987  

Humpback whale lunge feeding on Antarctic krill, with mouth open and baleen visible. The humbpack's pink throat grooves are seen as its pleated throat becomes fully distended as the whale fills its mouth with krill and water. The water will be pushed out, while the baleen strains and retains the small krill.
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Image ID: 25660  

Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath.
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 21249