These Arresting Nature Photos Look Like Paintings Brought to Life
Beech branches and a broadleaf sapling overhang Lake Ada in Fiordland National Park, South Island, New Zealand.
A glacial waterfall cascades over a 40-foot-high ledge at Godafoss, Iceland.
Camel thorn trees are cast in shadow in Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia.
A herd of African elephants are on the move in Masai Amboseli National Park, Kenya.
Clouds break after a storm in Wood-Tikchik State Park, Alaska.
Gentian Pool in Yellowstone National Park's Lower Geyser Basin is photographed from above.
Grasses emerge from a tarn in Acadia National Park, Maine.
Seagulls fly out to sea at sunrise in Big Sur, California.
The first beams of a June day spotlight a ridge of rusty volcanic rhyolite at Landmannalaugar in Iceland.
Chinstrap penguins rest atop a blue iceberg near Candlemas Island, Antarctica.
The Dallol hot spring in Ethiopia precipitates in white and gray, then to yellow, and finally to orange as it becomes more oxidized.
Waves wash over a coral reef in the Red Sea.
Hraunfossar waterfall in September looks much as it would have in Viking days: birch trees, bog bilberries, and the Hvítá River, white with silt.
A yak herd returns to camp in the evening in the Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan.
