Lady’s Icy-Water Rescue in Louisville: Why the Full Account Matters
When a dog is struggling in icy water, the urge to reach it is immediate. That urgency is the heart of Lady’s rescue story from Louisville,...
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Ryder’s GoPro Wedding Film: A Husky’s View of a Snowy Ceremony
Most wedding films keep the camera at roughly human height. Addie and Marshall Burnette’s snowy film has another point of view: their Siber...
The Coast Guard Rescue of KC on Lake St. Clair
A dog alone on a frozen lake is a small shape in a very large place. In the story of KC, the reassuring detail is that a Coast Guard crew n...
Ian McIntosh’s Alaska Fall During Paradise Waits
A steep white face can look deceptively simple from a distance. In the footage of Ian McIntosh’s Alaska fall, that clean-looking surface is...
10 Alaska Facts: Scale, Landscapes and Life Beyond the Stereotypes
Alaska can make distances on a map feel surprisingly abstract. Mountains, glacier-shaped valleys and communities spread across very differe...
An Appalachian Trail Beard Timelapse: John’s 2015 Journey
The beard gets the headline, but the real subject is time. In this Appalachian Trail portrait sequence, a hiker’s face stays near the centr...
Monsoon II: Mike Olbinski’s Arizona Storm Timelapse
A storm can look solid in a still photograph: a wall of cloud, a bright fork of lightning, a dark band on the horizon. Mike Olbinski’s Mons...
Great Lakes Ice Volcanoes: Waves Building Temporary Cones
A cone of ice suddenly throws water into the air. It looks like a miniature eruption, which explains the name “ice volcano.” Along the Grea...
Five Colorado Mountain Towns: Telluride, Aspen, Ouray, Silverton and Creede
A mountain town is more than a place to sleep between outings. The walk to breakfast, the view at the end of the street and the things you ...
Bodhi Bennett’s Family Hiking Album
A tiny hat, an enormous mountain backdrop and plenty of time to look around: the Bennett family’s hiking photographs have an easy charm. Bo...
Travis Burke’s Converted Van and North American Photo Journey
Before it became a base for landscape photography, the van belonged to Travis Burke’s grandmother. The 1994 Dodge gave him a starting point...
The Dawn Wall: Caldwell and Jorgeson’s 2015 Free Ascent
From the valley, the climbers are barely visible. On the wall, progress can depend on a piece of granite small enough to fit beneath a fing...
Lake Superior’s Mainland Ice Caves: Sandstone and Winter Formations
White icicles follow the curves of orange sandstone, turning a rock ceiling into a delicate-looking canopy. Along the Lake Superior shore o...
Mount Washington: Extreme Weather and the Work of Measuring It
A building seems to have grown a white coat. A tower has lost its sharp outline beneath ice. On Mount Washington, the photographs make the ...
Edge of Stability: Jeff Boyce’s Storm and Night-Sky Film
The cloud fills most of the picture, but the strip of land beneath it matters. It gives the storm a scale, a setting and a relationship wit...
Tioga Road and Tioga Pass: Yosemite’s High-Country Drive
Tioga Road gives a mountain journey a visible thread. The pavement bends between rock, forest and open views, while the surrounding landsca...
Remembering Rambo After the Mount Bierstadt Lightning Strike
A photograph of a dog on a mountain is usually a happy record of a day outside. For Jonathan Hardman, the pictures of Rambo became somethin...
Humpback Whales from Above: AkXpro’s Alaska Film
White water spreads across a dark sea, and several enormous bodies appear together at the surface. AkXpro’s short film of humpback whales i...
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...
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...