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  • A long exposure captures the motion of a pelican flying between crashing Pacific Ocean waves at Chapman Beach in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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  • Haystack Rock is bathed in golden evening light as Pacific Ocean waves crash ashore at Chapman Beach near Cannon Beach, Oregon. Haystack Rock is a 235-foot (72-meter) sea stack, the third largest in the world. It was formed about 15 million years ago from basalt lava flows emanating from the Blue Mountains and Columbia basin.
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  • Several gulls rest on a sandbar off Chapman Beach near Cannon Beach, Oregon, as the sun prepares to set over the Pacific Ocean.
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  • Seven gulls rest on a sandbar off Chapman Beach near Cannon Beach, Oregon, as the sun prepares to set over the Pacific Ocean.
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  • Ecola Creek cuts through a sandy beach to reach the Pacific Ocean at Kramer Point in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
    OR_Ecola-Creek_Cannon-Beach_Diagonal...jpg
  • A large flock of brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) rest and preen themselves among crashing Pacific Ocean waves in shallow water at Chapman Beach near Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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  • A long exposure captures the motion of pelicans flying between crashing Pacific Ocean waves at Chapman Beach in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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  • A flock of pelicans flies over Chapman Beach near Cannon Beach, Oregon, as the sun prepares to set over the Pacific Ocean.
    OR_Chapman-Beach_Pelicans_Sunset_418...jpg
  • The western face of Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon, is bathed in the golden light of the evening sun. Haystack Rock is a 235-foot (72-meter) sea stack, the third largest in the world. It was formed about 15 million years ago from basalt lava flows emanating from the Blue Mountains and Columbia basin.
    OR_Cannon-Beach_Haystack-Rock_Evenin...jpg
  • Gulls forage at the edge of the Pacific Ocean as Haystack Rock stands tall in the background in Cannon Beach, Oregon. Haystack Rock is a 235-foot (72-meter) sea stack, the third largest in the world. It was formed about 15 million years ago from basalt lava flows emanating from the Blue Mountains and Columbia basin.
    OR_Cannon-Beach_Haystack-Rock_Gulls_...jpg
  • Ecola Creek bends as it cuts through a sandy beach to reach the Pacific Ocean at Kramer Point in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
    OR_Ecola-Creek_Cannon-Beach_2145.jpg
  • A narrow band of cirrus clouds turn pink at sunrise high in the sky over Haystack Rock, a prominent sea stack on the Oregon coast at Cannon Beach. Haystack Rock is composed of basalt and was formed about 15 million years ago from lava flows emanating from the Blue Mountains and Columbia basin.
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  • A flock of gulls, primarily western gulls (Larus occidentalis), takes off from Kramer Point near Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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  • A flock of pelicans flies through a passage at Chapman Point near Cannon Beach, Oregon, as the late evening sun bathes the sky and cliffs in golden light.
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  • A large flock of Common Murres (Uria aalge), also known as Common Guillemots, dives off one of the Bird Rocks at Chapman Point near Cannon Beach, Oregon. The area is home to one of the largest colonies of breeding murres on the Oregon coast.
    Murres_Common_Diving_ChapmanPoint_23...jpg
  • A long camera exposure captures the motion of Pacific Ocean waves crashing over beach rocks at Las Tunas Beach in Malibu, California, in the golden light of the late afternoon.
    CA_Waves_Beach-Rocks_Las-Tunas_8719.jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of Lake Washington waves as they crash into pieces of driftwood on Juanita Beach in Kirkland, Washington.
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  • The late evening sun lights up golden flowers and driftwood just before it sets behind the Olympic Mountains in this view from Richmond Beach, Shoreline, Washington.
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  • The late evening sun lights up golden flowers and driftwood just before it sets behind the Olympic Mountains in this view from Richmond Beach, Shoreline, Washington.
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  • Numerous large driftwood logs fill Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington.
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  • Pacific Ocean waves crash around driftwood that has washed ashore on Second Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington, as the clouds above are colored by the rising sun.
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  • Pacific Ocean waves crash around driftwood that has washed ashore on Second Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington, as the clouds above are colored by the rising sun.
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  • South Beach, located in San Juan Island National Historical Park, is bathed in a soft golden light as sunset approaches on San Juan Island in Washington state.
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  • Clouds, turned fiery red by the rising sun, and the crescent moon are in the sky over Muir Beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area near San Francisco, California. This scene was captured from the Muir Beach Overlook trail.
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  • A long exposure captures the motion of Pacific Ocean waves crashing onto Venice Beach in Venice, California, at sunrise.
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  • Several pelicans fly over crashing Pacific Ocean waves as they return to their evening roost at Chapman Point near Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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  • Several rugged islands including Little James Island (foreground) and James Island (background) are framed by large logs on Rialto Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington.
    OlympicNP_Rialto-Beach_Driftwood_815...jpg
  • Against the backdrop of a pastel sunrise, water from the Pacific Ocean flows onto Second Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington.
    OlympicNP_Second-Beach_Driftwood_Sun...jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of Pacific Ocean waves as they reach up onto Second Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington. The sunrise, filtered by clouds, colors the sky with a pastel hue.
    OlympicNP_Second-Beach_Pastel-Sunris...jpg
  • Pacific Ocean waves crash around driftwood that has washed ashore on Second Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington, as the clouds above are colored by the rising sun.
    OlympicNP_Second-Beach_Driftwood_Sun...jpg
  • The rising sun colors the sky above driftwood and three prominent sea stacks off Second Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington.
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  • Several rugged islands including Little James Island (foreground) and James Island (background) are framed by large logs on Rialto Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington.
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  • A colorful, late-spring sunset colors the sky above the rugged cliffs of the Na Pali coast and the Pacific Ocean in this view from Ke'E Beach on Kauai's north coast.
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  • A fiery sunrise colors the sky over Muir Beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area near San Francisco, California. This scene was captured from the Muir Beach Overlook trail.
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  • In the low-angle light of sunset, a Heermann's gull (Larus heermanni) waits on Venice Beach, California, for a Pacific Ocean wave to wash food ashore.
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  • The sun sets over a notch in the rocky shoreline that borders Sunset Beach in Washington Park on Fidalgo Island, Anacortes, Washington. The sun's glint shines on the water of Rosario Strait. Blakely Island, one of the San Juan Islands, is visible in the background.
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  • A killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) poops on the rocks of Juanita Beach in Kirkland, Washington.
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  • With a Pacific Ocean wave in the background, a Heermann's gull (Larus heermanni) rests on a rock overlooking Las Tunas Beach near Malibu, California. This is an adult Heermann's gull, displaying breeding plumage. Heermann's gulls are native to the west coast of North America, from southwestern British Columbia to Mexico. The gulls are usually found at the shoreline or very far out to sea; they are very rarely spotted inland. Nearly all of the Heermann's gulls nest on Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California.
    Gull_Heermanns_Las-Tunas-Beach_9341.jpg
  • A herring gull (Larus argentatus) stands in wet sand on Venice Beach, California, waiting for Pacific Ocean waves to deliver more food.
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  • A fiery sunrise colors the sky red over Venice Beach, Venice, California.
    CA_Venice-Beach_Fiery-Sunrise_7260.jpg
  • The full moon shines over Makena Beach, located on the Hawaiian island of Maui at night.
    Maui_Makena-Beach_Night_6304.jpg
  • A shorebird runs along the beach near Santa Cruz, California as the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean.
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  • During a high tide, Paciifc Ocean waves crash into a rock wall along a natural bridge at Second Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington.
    OlympicNP_Second-Beach_Waves-Crashin...jpg
  • A colorful, late-spring sunset colors the sky above the rugged cliffs of the Na Pali coast and the Pacific Ocean in this view from Ke'E Beach on Kauai's north coast.
    Kauai_Ke'E-Beach_Sunset_7912.jpg
  • Hundreds of elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) fill the beach at the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery near San Simeon, California. Elephant seals typically spend 9 months at sea, coming to shore only to give birth, mate and molt. Elephant seals are named for the long snouts, called proboscis, that male seals develop. The Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery is part of the Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve and Marine Conservation Area, managed by California.
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  • The receding tide results in drainage patterns on the beach at Brackett's Landing in Edmonds, Washington.
    Edmonds_Beach_DrainagePatterns_1088.jpg
  • Thin cirrus clouds fill the sky over the Olympic Mountains as the sun sets over Puget Sound in this view from Richmond Beach, Washington.
    Olympics_Richmond-Beach_Sunset_9725.jpg
  • Hundreds of elephant seals fill the beach at the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery near San Simeon, California. Elephant seals typically spend 9 months at sea, coming to shore only to give birth, mate and molt. Elephant seals are named for the long snouts, called proboscis, that male seals develop. The Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery is part of the Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve and Marine Conservation Area, managed by California.
    Elephant-Seals_Piedras-Blancas_Full-...jpg
  • More than two dozen gulls rest on a rock at high tide in the Pacific Ocean off Muir Beach in California. The area is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, south of San Francisco.
    Muir-Beach_Gulls_Rocks_5540.jpg
  • Hundreds of elephant seals fill the beach at the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery near San Simeon, California. Elephant seals typically spend 9 months at sea, coming to shore only to give birth, mate and molt. Elephant seals are named for the long snouts, called proboscis, that male seals develop. The Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery is part of the Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve and Marine Conservation Area, managed by California.
    Elephant-Seals_Piedras-Blancas_Full-...jpg
  • Canyon Creek flows across the Indian Beach in Ecola State Park on the Oregon coast. Several sea stacks are visible in the Pacific Ocean including Submarine Rock (left) and Sea Lion Rock Arch (right).
    OR_Ecola_IndianBeach_Sunrise_0895.jpg
  • The sun sets behind one of the prominent sea stacks known as the Marin Headlands at Rodeo Beach, located in the Golden Gate National Recreational Area near San Francisco, California.
    CA_MarinHeadlands_Sunset_0140.jpg
  • A pair of brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) share a Pacific Ocean beach with dozens of gulls in Cannon Beach, Oregon. The pelicans are displaying their breeding plumage. The gulls are predominantly glaucous winged/western gull hybrids, which are especially common on the Washington and northern Oregon coast.
    Pelicans_Gulls_CannonBeach_6332.jpg
  • A long exposure blurs the motion of Pacific Ocean waves on a foggy morning in Venice Beach, California.
    Pacific-Ocean_Waves_Fog_Venice_7314.jpg
  • Pacific Ocean waves crash onto the Punalu`u Black Sand Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii. The beach is near the Volcanoes National Park and the erosion from the ocean waves turns the volcanic rock into black sand.
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  • A rust-colored beach rock stands out from the others on Crescent Beach near Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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  • The setting sun reddens low-level clouds, creating a fiery sunset over Pacific Ocean waves as they crash into Venice Beach in California.
    Pacific-Ocean_Fiery-Sunset_Venice_77...jpg
  • A flock of sanderlings (Caldris alba) rests on the rocks out of the reach of Pacific Ocean waves along Pescadero Beach in California. Sanderlings spend the summer in northern Canada and Greenland and winter on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America. The feed on mollusks and crustaceans, running along sandy beaches just ahead of the surf.
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  • Several starfish (Ochre sea star/Pisaster ochraceus) are exposed by the receding waters of low tide at Chapman Beach near Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast.
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  • Sunglint stretches across the water of Puget Sound as the sun sets behind the Olympic Mountains in this view from Marina Beach Park, Edmonds, Washington.
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  • A long exposure turns Pacific Ocean waves into impressionistic streaks as they crash into Venice Beach at sunset in Venice, California.
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  • Sea lettuce in a variety of colors grows in a tide pool on Des Moines Beach, Des Moines, Washington.
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  • The sun begins to set over the Pacific Ocean and sea stacks at the Marin Headlands, located at Rodeo Beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area near San Francisco, California.
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  • The setting sun lights up the cliffs of Chapman Point, located on the northern Oregon coast near Cannon Beach. Crescent Beach, a relatively remote part of Ecola State Park, is visible in the foreground.
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  • Dozens of brown pelicans preen themselves and rest as huge Pacific Ocean waves crash into their rocky bluff at Pescadero Beach, California.
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  • In early autumn, the maple trees of Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park in Renton, Washington, display the full assortment of fall colors.
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  • In early autumn, the maple trees of Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park in Renton, Washington, display the full assortment of fall colors.
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  • Shi Shi Beach, often named as one of the most beautiful beaches in Washington state, provides a stunning view of the Point of Arches, a chain of Pacific Ocean arches in Olympic National Park.
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  • Red clouds at sunset hover over the red sand of Bushy Beach, located near Oamaru, New Zealand. The beach is famous for its yellow-eyed penguin colony.
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  • In early autumn, the maple trees of Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park in Renton, Washington, display the full assortment of fall colors.
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  • In early autumn, a maple tree shows a wide variety of fall colors in Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park, Renton, Washington.
    Fall-Color_Maple-Tree_Gene-Coulon_Re...jpg
  • The moon shines over the golden Makena Beach on the Hawaiian island of Maui at night.
    Maui_MakenaBeach_Night_6306.jpg
  • A large flock of Common Murres (Uria aalge), also known as Common Guillemots, flies over Pacific Ocean near Chapman Point in Cannon Beach, Oregon. The area hosts one of the three largest breeding colonies of the murres on the Oregon coast.
    Murres_Common_LargeFlockInFlight_Cha...jpg
  • Rocks, shell fragments and other beach debris helps to illustrate the path of the wind at Bandon, Oregon. The wind, blowing from right to left in this image, is blocked by the obstacles. Sand piles up in the wake that develops behind each obstacle.
    Bandon_WindPatterns_9220.jpg
  • Pacific Ocean waves flow over the golden sand at Napili Beach, located on the west side of the Hawaiian island of Maui.
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  • Choppy waves strike Ke`E Beach during a stormy sunrise on the north coast of Kauai, Hawaii.
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  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), or Honu in Hawaiian, rests on the Punalu`u Black Sand Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii. Punalu`u is one of the few beaches where these turtles bask in the sun. Scientists believe the cold-blooded turtles bask there to speed their metabolism and avoid tiger sharks.
    GreenSeaTurtle_Honu_Punaluu_8923.jpg
  • A willow, showing golden color in winter, frames red-osier dogwood growing in the marsh of the Juanita Beach Park in Kirkland, Washington.
    WA_Juanita_Willow_Winter_Marsh_1954.jpg
  • Several empty shells, most prominently oysters, lay among barnacle-covered rocks on the beach at Birch Bay State Park in Birch Bay, Washington.
    WA_Birch-Bay_Empty-Shells_0498.jpg
  • A mottled anemone (Urticina crassicornis) feeds on a shore crab (Hemigrapsus) during an exceptionally low tide at Des Moines Beach Park, Des Moines, Washington.
    Anemone_Mottled_EatingCrab_DesMoines...jpg
  • Sea lettuce in a variety of colors grows in a tide pool on Des Moines Beach, Des Moines, Washington.
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  • Pacific Ocean waves gradually erase footprints left on Makena Beach on the island of Maui, Hawai`i as the sun sets.
    Maui_MakenaBeach_Footprints_6837.jpg
  • The earth's shadow is visible just over the horizon in this sunrise image of Haystack Rock, a prominent sea stack in Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast. The reddish band above the earth's shadow is known as the Belt of Venus. Haystack Rock, at 235-feet, ranks as the world's third-tallest sea stack.
    HaystackRock_EarthsShadow_038_6149.jpg
  • Seaweed and debris from Puget Sound seems to glow when exposed to ultraviolet light on a beach in Des Moines, Washington. The glow is the result of phosphors that convert ultraviolet radiation, which is invisible to human eyes, into wavelengths that are visible. This scene was captured under black light.
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  • A photographer photographs the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean from a beach in Santa Cruz, California.
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  • Water from the Greenland Sea, considered part of the Arctic Ocean, washes into Öxarfjörður, Iceland, exposing part of a black sand beach that was covered with snow.
    Iceland_Snow_BlackSandBeach_Öxarfjör...jpg
  • A small snail leaves wandering tracks on the wet sand at Shi Shi Beach on the Pacific coast of Olympic National Park, Washington. The snail, covered in sand, is barely visible in the tracks at the bottom of this image, just left of center.
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  • Streaking patterns develop on the sandy beach at Bandon, Oregon as strong wind blows over rough patches.
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  • Streaking patterns develop on the sandy beach at Bandon, Oregon as strong wind blows over rough patches.
    Bandon_WindPatterns_9221.jpg
  • A long exposure blurs the action of Puget Sound waves as they crash around the beach rocks at Mukilteo, Washington at sunset.
    MukilteoBeach_Rocks_Waves_LongExposu...jpg
  • Several Western Gulls (Larus occidentalis) dive for fish in the Pacific Ocean off Chapman Point near Cannon Beach, Oregon. Western Gulls are rarely seen away from the ocean and are found along the west coast of North America from Washington to Baja California. The mostly white birds are adults; the brown birds are juveniles.
    Gulls_Western_DivingIntoOcean_Chapma...jpg
  • A sea stack off Chapman Point near Cannon Beach, Oregon, is completely covered with Common Murres (Uria aalge), also known as Common Guillemots. The area hosts one of the largest colonies of breeding murres on the Oregon coast.
    Murres_Common_FlockOnSeaStack_Chapma...jpg
  • A 30-second camera exposure blurs the Pacific Ocean waves that crash into Point Pinos at Asilomar Beach, Pacific Grove, California.
    CA_AsilomarBeach_PointPinos_LongExpo...jpg
  • High cirrus clouds high over a beach near Sayulita, Mexico, are turned red and orange after sunset.
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  • Very large Pacific Ocean waves crash on Makena Beach, Maui, Hawai`i, obscuring the view of tree trunks during a period of heavy surf.
    Maui_MakenaBeach_HeavySurf_6198.jpg
  • A tree is reflected in a small pool of standing water in the Ecola Creek watershed near Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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  • Ripples on Ecola Creek catch reflections of trees along the watershed in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
    OR_EcolaCreek_Ripples_0711.jpg
  • A California Gull (Larus californicus) rests on the beach as thick fog envelopes Otter Crest on the central Oregon coast.
    OR_OtterCrest_Foggy_Gull_0089.jpg
  • The receding tide results in drainage patterns on the beach at Brackett's Landing in Edmonds, Washington. Clouds colored by the setting sun are reflected on the wet sand.
    Edmonds_BeachSunset_DrainagePatterns...jpg
  • Vibrant shafts of light, called crepuscular rays, radiate from the sun as it sets over the Pacific Ocean. The clouds surrounding the sun cast their shadows over the ocean, forming the beams. This image was captured in Pacific Beach, Washington.
    PacificOcean_Beams_5619.jpg
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