Natural History Photography

Oak Alley Plantation and its famous shaded tunnel of 300-year-old southern live oak trees (Quercus virginiana). The plantation is now designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Species: Southern live oak, Quercus virginiana
Location: Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie, Louisiana
Image ID: 31004

Aerial Photo of San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA. Blacks Beach and Scripps Pier, La Jolla, California

Aerial Photo of San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA. Blacks Beach and Scripps Pier.
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 30624

Aerial Photo of San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA. Blacks Beach and Scripps Pier.
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 30625

Full Moon Setting Over SIO Pier in the moments just before sunrise, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

Full Moon Setting Over SIO Pier in the moments just before sunrise, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 37506

Full Moon Setting Over SIO Pier in the moments just before sunrise, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 37508

Full Moon Setting Over SIO Pier in the moments just before sunrise, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 37510

Full Moon Setting Over SIO Pier in the moments just before sunrise, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 37511

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Pier at dawn, with Christmas Lights and Christmas Tree, La Jolla, California

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Pier at dawn, with Christmas Lights and Christmas Tree.
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 37553

SIO Pier. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography research pier is 1090 feet long and was built of reinforced concrete in 1988, replacing the original wooden pier built in 1915. The Scripps Pier is home to a variety of sensing equipment above and below water that collects various oceanographic data. The Scripps research diving facility is located at the foot of the pier. Fresh seawater is pumped from the pier to the many tanks and facilities of SIO, including the Birch Aquarium. The Scripps Pier is named in honor of Ellen Browning Scripps, the most significant donor and benefactor of the Institution.
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 22293

San Diego Coronado Bridge, known locally as the Coronado Bridge, links San Diego with Coronado, California. The bridge was completed in 1969 and was a toll bridge until 2002. It is 2.1 miles long and reaches a height of 200 feet above San Diego Bay.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 22327

Scripps Pier, with Mount Soledad and La Jolla in the distance.
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 22358

Marisposa Grove entrance. Sign marking entrance to the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees in southern Yosemite National Park.
Location: Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 23271

The old Point Loma lighthouse operated from 1855 to 1891 above the entrance to San Diego Bay. It is now a maintained by the National Park Service and is part of Cabrillo National Monument.
Location: Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California
Image ID: 14522

Oceanside Pier at dusk, sunset, night. Oceanside.
Location: Oceanside Pier, California
Image ID: 14642

Panorama of the Wave. The Wave is a sweeping, dramatic display of eroded sandstone, forged by eons of water and wind erosion, laying bare striations formed from compacted sand dunes over millenia. This panoramic picture is formed from thirteen individual photographs.
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Image ID: 20702
Panorama dimensions: 4617 x 17432

Elephant seals crowd a sand beach at the Piedras Blancas rookery near San Simeon. The Piedras Blancas lighthouse is visible in upper left.
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California
Image ID: 20355

Elephant seals crowd a sand beach at the Piedras Blancas rookery near San Simeon.
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California
Image ID: 20358

The Crystal Pier and Pacific Ocean at sunrise, dawn, waves blur as they crash upon the sand. Crystal Pier, 872 feet long and built in 1925, extends out into the Pacific Ocean from the town of Pacific Beach.
Location: Pacific Beach, California
Image ID: 27240

Oceanside Pier at sunset, clouds with a brilliant sky at dusk, the lights on the pier are lit.
Location: Oceanside Pier, California
Image ID: 27616

Oceanside Pier at sunset, clouds with a brilliant sky at dusk, the lights on the pier are lit.
Location: Oceanside Pier, California
Image ID: 27618

Blade Runner, the injured North Pacific humpback whale, is seen with her calf swimming alongside. This humpback whale showing extensive scarring, almost certainly from a boat propeller, on dorsal ridge. This female North Pacific humpback whale was first seen with the depicted lacerations near the island of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands in the mid-90s, and is the original humpback to bear the name 'Blade Runner'. This female has apparently recovered, as evidenced by her calf in the background. A South Pacific humpback whale endured a similar injury in Sydney Australia in 2001, and bears a remarkably similar scar pattern to the above-pictured whale.
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii
Image ID: 05907

Christmas tree display at les Galeries Lafayette. The Galeries Lafayette is an upmarket French department store company located on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
Location: Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
Image ID: 28131
Panorama dimensions: 9529 x 7170

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