An Alaska Seal Encounter from the Kamana Sailing Expedition
A seal rests on a piece of ice, then reacts to the people passing nearby. It is the sort of brief, unexpected encounter that can become the...
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The Tatra Mountains Through Karol Nienartowicz’s Photographs
The Tatras in these photographs are full of changing moods. One lake lies beneath a heavy sky; another catches light through a break in the...
Five New Zealand Landscapes: From Wharariki to Tongariro
New Zealand’s landscapes can change the whole mood of a photo collection. A wide beach feels open and playful; a steep-sided fiord draws yo...
Lake Bohinj: Water, Villages and the Julian Alps
A yellow boat beside a wooden jetty is enough to hold your attention in the first Lake Bohinj photograph. The water is clear, the mountains...
Greenwood’s Crown-Flash Video: Light Above a Storm Cloud
A patch of light above a storm cloud was enough to make a cyclist in Greenwood, Indiana stop and reach for a phone. The resulting recording...
ISS Symphony: Earth’s Light in an Orbital Time-Lapse
A green aurora spreads across Earth while spacecraft hardware occupies the foreground. In one frame, a familiar human-made object and an im...
An Education: Mike Libecki’s Father-and-Daughter Antarctic Journey
A glacier fills the background, seals rest near the shore, and two small figures stand in an enormous landscape. An Education places a fami...
Mark Flower’s Colorado: Familiar Places in Changing Light
Mark Flower’s Colorado collection begins with a view through a hole in the rock and ends with a bird between snowy trees. Between those mom...
Ten Years in the Tatras: Karol Nienartowicz’s Mountain Collection
A photography prize can lead somewhere unexpected. In Karol Nienartowicz’s case, the prize was a weekend in Zakopane in 2005. In his accoun...
Run Rabbit Run: The Small Figure in HELIPRO’s Avalanche Film
The first thing you notice is the moving snow. Then a much smaller figure appears on the slope, and the avalanche clip becomes an unexpecte...
The Teton Range: Reading the Mountains from Jackson Hole
The Tetons have a particularly direct way of announcing themselves. A broad valley leads towards the mountains, and then the skyline rises ...
Autumn in the Clarée Valley: Thomas Tourral’s Golden Landscapes
Gold appears almost everywhere in Thomas Tourral’s Clarée Valley photographs: across the wooded slopes, around a small meadow building and ...
Sorin Radu’s Avalanche Recording in Romania’s Retezat Mountains
The snow surface begins to break, and a familiar snowboarding view becomes difficult to interpret almost immediately. Sorin Radu’s helmet-c...
Tempescope: Ken Kawamoto’s Physical Weather Display
An umbrella rests beside a clear box in which water is falling. It is a pleasingly direct way to communicate rainy weather: instead of read...
Lago di Braies / Pragser Wildsee: A Dolomite Lake in Photographs
The water at Lago di Braies changes character across these photographs. Near the pale shore it is almost transparent; farther out it become...
A Dog Brings a Game of Fetch to the Skiers in Leukerbad
Two skiers are making their way through the snow when a dog arrives with a different plan for the day. There is a stick, there are two avai...
People in the Mont Blanc Massif: Alpine Photography’s Collection
A small patch of bright clothing can change an entire mountain photograph. In this Alpine Photography collection, climbers and campers prov...
Midnight Sun and Bright Northern Nights: What the Photos Show
The clock says night, but the houses are still bright, the mountains remain visible and a tent hardly seems to need a lamp. Northern summer...