Hoodoos located on a geological tourist site of the town of Ille-sur-Têt (France). They result from the erosion of older sedimentary rocks of four million years.

This photo shows the wild area of hoodoos located 1 kilometer from the area approachable by the public. Taken during the summer of 2013.

Map: 42.6780, 2.6115

Shot in a forest outside Kiruna, Sweden right before sunset. The snow created a natural blue light reflected from the sky.

Sony Alpha DSLR-A580, Sony DT 16-50mm F2.8 SSM.

Photo Settings: 16mm, f/5, 1/160 second, ISO 100.

Map: 67.8822, 20.2019

This was taken after a hiking tour through the Höllentalklamm.

"Valley of Hell", as it is known in English, leads up the Zugspitze on the German side of the German-Austrian border in the northern Alps.

Adobe Lightroom CC.

Canon EOS Rebel T1i, Tamron SP AF 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF).

Photo Settings: 17mm, f/9, 1/200 second, ISO 200.

Sunset at Grand Teton National Park. I took this photo in June, 2018. Shot from the Heart Six Ranch.

Adobe Lightroom.

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM.

Photo Settings: 135mm, f/4, 1/500 second, ISO 400.

Part of a dual monitor set I'll be uploading later. This is the first half. The original resolution is 30,400 x 9,500. Yep, you didn't misread that :).

Top view of the Pag city located on Pag island, Croatia

Adobe Lightroom CC.

Panasonic Lumix DC-GX9.

Photo Settings: 12mm, f/7, 1/13 second, ISO 200.

Taken from Roppongi Hills, Tokyo.

Tokyo Tower is the second tallest structure in Japan.

Apple Aperture, Color Efex Pro.

Nikon D7000.

Photo Settings: 46mm, f/8, ISO 100.

What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.

Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light-years away. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away.

NIRCam – with its crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity – unveils hundreds of previously hidden stars, and even numerous background galaxies. Several prominent features in this image are described below.

• The “steam” that appears to rise from the celestial “mountains” is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to intense, ultraviolet radiation.
• Dramatic pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting the blistering ultraviolet radiation from the young stars.
• Bubbles and cavities are being blown by the intense radiation and stellar winds of newborn stars.
• Protostellar jets and outflows, which appear in gold, shoot from dust-enshrouded, nascent stars.
• A “blow-out” erupts at the top-center of the ridge, spewing gas and dust into the interstellar medium.
• An unusual “arch” appears, looking like a bent-over cylinder.

This period of very early star formation is difficult to capture because, for an individual star, it lasts only about 50,000 to 100,000 years – but Webb’s extreme sensitivity and exquisite spatial resolution have chronicled this rare event.

Located roughly 7,600 light-years away, NGC 3324 was first catalogued by James Dunlop in 1826. Visible from the Southern Hemisphere, it is located at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which resides in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to the Keyhole Nebula and the active, unstable supergiant star called Eta Carinae.

NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.

Unlike most visitors, I find Zion National Park most magical during low season in the winter. It rains . . . a lot, but the low hanging clouds against the bright orange rocks and abundant waterfalls make for the most incredible captures. I hope this shares a slice of what a truly special place Zion is.

Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop.

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM.

Map: 37.2750, -112.9445

Taken from wooden boat, during a romantic sailing. Truly an incredible place for sightseeing. Phi Phi Islands, Thailand 2018

Adobe Lightroom 5.6.

Nikon D810, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED.

Photo Settings: 34mm, f/4, 1/800 second, ISO 100.