If someone blindfolded me and took me here I would have never guessed I was in Norway. Some beaches here on Norway's coast look more like Hawaii or Thailand. Crystal clear waters and clean white sand make it look like a dream. Taken on Grotlesanden, Norway.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, Adobe Photoshop CS5.

Coming of the clouds just at sunset at my local spot.

Adobe Lightroom 5.3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, B+W Circular Polarizer.

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

Photo Settings: 17mm, f/11, 1/2 second, ISO 50.

Downtown Vancouver, as seen from Stanley Park. May 2014.

The old guard tower "Talaia d'Albercutx" (right on top of the moutain) near Cap de Formentor on Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Captured in the Fall of 2014.

DxO Optics Pro 10, Paint Shop Pro X6.

Samsung NX300, Samsung NX 12-24mm F4-5.6 ED.

Photo Settings: 18mm, f/8, 1/160 second, ISO 100.

This composite image combines a near-infrared view from the Hubble Space Telescope, an infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and an X-ray view from the Chandra X-ray Observatory into one multi-wavelength picture.

It features the spectacle of stellar evolution: from vibrant regions of star birth, to young hot stars, to old cool stars, to seething remnants of stellar death called black holes. This activity occurs against a fiery backdrop in the crowded, hostile environment of the galaxy's core, the center of which is dominated by a supermassive black hole nearly four million times more massive than our Sun. Permeating the region is a diffuse blue haze of X-ray light from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by outflows from the supermassive black hole as well as by winds from massive stars and by stellar explosions. Infrared light reveals more than a hundred thousand stars along with glowing dust clouds that create complex structures including compact globules, long filaments, and finger-like "pillars of creation," where newborn stars are just beginning to break out of their dark, dusty cocoons.

Credit: NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC, and STScI

Sunset over Schauinsland Mountain, Freiburg, Germany.

Burleigh Heads - QLD, Australia.

Sunrise at one of Queensland's favourite surf destinations. There's always a fine line between getting the shot and keeping dry. As usual, I crossed that line and went home drenched. No regrets.

Manfrotto & Lee Grad Filters. No post-processing.

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

Photo Settings: 16mm, f/11, 1/40 second, ISO 100.

I saw this amazing sunset on my way home from work and had to stop by the beach to catch the end of it.

Alki Beach in West Seattle - March 3, 2013.

Canon EOS 6D.

Photo Settings: 17mm, f/9, 1 second, ISO 50.

Dawn over the shoreline of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK. It was dark and cloudy about 10 minutes before this scene took shape.

Lee Filters 0.9 and 0.6 soft-grad.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM.

Photo Settings: 24mm, f/16, 1 second, ISO 50.

A frozen swamp on in Pudasjärvi, Finland. Boxing Day 2014.

Sirui M-3204X tripod and Sirui K-40X ballhead, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7.

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

Photo Settings: 16mm, f/16, 1/13 second, ISO 100.