This is my take on the most beautiful view of New York City.

This picture was taken during sunset from the Top Of The Rock!

Adobe Photoshop CS6, Camera Raw, VSCO.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L II USM.

Photo Settings: 24mm, f/2, 1/60 second, ISO 400.

Map: 40.7587, -73.9784

Walking through the Daintree Rainforest I stumbled back as I saw this lizard clinging to a tree at my eye level. We looked at each other for a while, he didn't move at all, and he kindly let me take his photograph before I continued through the rainforest back to Mossman Gorge.

Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.

Nikon D810, Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR.

About 30 hours of painting time. Created in Adobe Photoshop CS6.

Taken just moments before sunrise on a surprisingly chilly morning in October. I was rewarded with this beautiful light over the canyon.

Fujifilm X-Pro1, Fujifilm XF 35mm F1.4 R.

Abstract rendering using Cinema 4D.

Cinema 4D, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Lightroom 5.

The St Johns Bridge of Portland, Oregon, with Mt Hood in the background.

Shot with a Sony a7rii, and an Olympus Zuiko 200mm f5.

Metabones v, Mefoto tripod.

Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop CC.

Kihaad, Maldives. October 2014.

Tripod, ND filter, Adobe Lightroom 5.3.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM.

Photo Settings: 17mm, f/22, 15 seconds, ISO 100.

Map: 5.1891, 73.1309

An early morning just outside Madras, Oregon. A friend of mine has a ton of land here, and each time I go I discover another amazing view!

Sony a7rii, Canon 16-35mm f4L IS, Metabones v, Breakthrough Photography ND filter

Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop.

Photo Settings: f/16, 61 seconds, ISO 100.

Kahlenberg hills, north-west of Vienna, Austria.

June 2013.

Samsung NX10.

Photo Settings: 18mm, f/5, 1/125 second, ISO 100.

Planetary nebulae like the Helix are sculpted late in a Sun-like star's life by a torrential gush of gases escaping from the dying star. They have nothing to do with planet formation, but got their name because they look like planetary disks when viewed through a small telescope. With higher magnification, the classic "donut-hole" in the middle of a planetary nebula can be resolved. Based on the nebula's distance of 650 light-years, its angular size corresponds to a huge ring with a diameter of nearly 3 light-years. That's approximately three-quarters of the distance between our Sun and the nearest star.

The Helix Nebula is a popular target of amateur astronomers and can be seen with binoculars as a ghostly, greenish cloud in the constellation Aquarius. Larger amateur telescopes can resolve the ring-shaped nebula, but only the largest ground-based telescopes can resolve the radial streaks. After careful analysis, astronomers concluded the nebula really isn't a bubble, but is a cylinder that happens to be pointed toward Earth.

Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO).