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  • The West Point Light, also known as the Discovery Park Lighthouse, shines above a beach full of driftwood in Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington. West Point Light was the first manned light station on Puget Sound and was activated on November 15, 1881.
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  • The West Point Light, also known as the Discovery Park Lighthouse, shines as a winter sunset colors the sky above the Olympic Mountains in Washington state. West Point Light was the first manned light station on Puget Sound and was activated on November 15, 1881. It is located in Discovery Park, Seattle, Washington.
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  • The golden light of the setting sun streaks across portions of a few ripples on the water of Puget Sound off the shoreline of Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Last-Light_1776.jpg
  • An American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) rests on a street light in Bothell, Washington, as the sun begins to set. During the fall and winter months as many as 15,000 crows roost each night in the city.
    Crow_Street-Light_Bothell_5221.jpg
  • The golden light of the setting sun streaks across portions of a few ripples on the water of Puget Sound off the shoreline of Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Last-Light_2125.jpg
  • The golden light of the setting sun streaks across portions of a few ripples on the water of Puget Sound off the shoreline of Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Last-Light_2043.jpg
  • The golden light of the setting sun streaks across portions of a few ripples on the water of Puget Sound off the shoreline of Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Last-Light_1830.jpg
  • The golden light of the late-day sun streaks across the tops of numerous small Puget Sound waves off Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Golden-Light_Edmonds_711...jpg
  • The golden light of the setting sun streaks across portions of a few ripples on the water of Puget Sound off the shoreline of Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Last-Light_1878.jpg
  • The Mukilteo Light, decorated for the holidays, stands next to the Washington State Ferry terminal at Mukilteo, Washington. The lighthouse began operating in 1906. One of the few lighthouses made out of wood, the Mukilteo Light lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and automated two years later. The lighthouse is now maintained by the Mukilteo Historical Society.
    Mukilteo_Lighthouse_Christmas_2248.jpg
  • A natural nighttime pillar of light known as the Zodiacal Light shines above and is reflected in Crater Lake, Oregon. The Zodiacal Light results from the sun shining on dust particles left behind by comets. The dust particles - the largest of which are believed to be just 0.3 mm and miles from its nearest neighboring particle - orbit the sun in a range from Mars to beyond Jupiter. Visible year-round in the tropics, the Zodiacal Light is best viewed immediately around the spring and fall solstice farther from the equator. The planet Venus, the brightest object in the sky, is visible near the peak of the Zodiacal Light and is also reflected in Crater Lake. The Milky Way, visible on the right, intersects with the Zodiacal Light at the top-center of the image. Crater Lake, which is actually a caldera, formed when Mount Mazama erupted violently about 7,700 years ago, causing its summit to collapse. Subsequent eruptions sealed the caldera, trapping rain water and snowmelt, forming the lake, which has a maximum depth of 1,949 feet (594 meters). Wizard Island, a volcanic cinder code, is visible in the foreground.
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  • A natural nighttime pillar of light known as the Zodiacal Light shines above and is reflected in Crater Lake, Oregon. The Zodiacal Light results from the sun shining on dust particles from old comets. The dust particles - the largest of which are believed to be just 0.3 mm and miles from its nearest neighboring particle - orbit the sun in a range from Mars to beyond Jupiter. Visible year-round in the tropics, the Zodiacal Light is best viewed immediately around the spring and fall solstice farther from the equator. The planet Venus, the brightest object in the sky, is visible near the peak of the Zodiacal Light and is also reflected in Crater Lake. The Milky Way, visible on the right, intersects with the Zodiacal Light at the top-center of the image. Crater Lake, which is actually a caldera, formed when Mount Mazama erupted violently about 7,700 years ago, causing its summit to collapse. Subsequent eruptions sealed the caldera, trapping rain water and snowmelt, forming the lake, which has a maximum depth of 1,949 feet (594 meters). Wizard Island, a volcanic cinder code, is visible in the foreground.
    CraterLake_ZodiacalLight_9909.jpg
  • The Point Wilson Light stands at the edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Port Townsend, Washington. The lighthouse was activated December 15, 1879. Its present structure was finished in 1913. The Point Wilson Light was automated in November 1976.
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  • A vibrant shaft of light illuminates a tumbleweed on the floor of Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon that was carved by violent flash floods. Beams of light form only when the sun is nearly overhead, lighting up the blowing sand that fills the canyon, which is dozens of feet deep. The Navajo people call the canyon Tsé bighánílíní dóó Hazdistazí, which means "the place where water runs through rocks."
    AntelopeCanyon_Beam_Tumbleweed_0493.jpg
  • A vibrant shaft of light shines like a spotlight on the floor of Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon that was carved by violent flash floods. Beams of light form only when the sun is nearly overhead, lighting up the blowing sand that fills the canyon, which is dozens of feet deep. The Navajo people call the canyon Tsé bighánílíní dóó Hazdistazí, which means "the place where water runs through rocks."
    Antelope-Canyon-Beam_S2574-09.jpg
  • The Point Wilson Light stands at the edge of the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Port Townsend, Washington. The lighthouse was activated December 15, 1879. Its present structure was finished in 1913. The Point Wilson Light was automated in November 1976.
    PointWilson_Lighthouse_8418.jpg
  • The Mukilteo Light, shown here decorated for the holidays, began operating in 1906 in Mukilteo, Washington. One of the few lighthouses made out of wood, the Mukilteo Light lighthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and automated two years later. The lighthouse is now maintained by the Mukilteo Historical Society.
    Mukilteo_Lighthouse_Christmas_2255.jpg
  • A Washington State ferry passes by the Mukilteo Light, a lighthouse that began operating in 1906 in Mukilteo, Washington. The lighthouse, one of the few made out of wood, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and automated two years later. The lighthouse is now maintained by the Mukilteo Historical Society.
    Mukilteo_Lighthouse_Ferry_3092.jpg
  • Three shafts of sunlight illuminate Skylight Cave in the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon. Skylight Cave is a lava tube and light enters through three skylights. Two of the skylights are hornito skylights, formed where lava was ejected through the crust of a flow some distance from the source of the magma.
    Skylight-Cave_Three-Beams_2761.jpg
  • The golden light of the setting sun streaks across portions of a few ripples and some small bubbles on the water of Puget Sound off the shoreline of Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Bubbles_1088.jpg
  • The golden light of the late-day sun streaks across the tops of small Puget Sound waves near the Edmonds, Washington, shoreline.
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  • Three shafts of sunlight illuminate Skylight Cave in the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon. Skylight Cave is a lava tube and light enters through three skylights. Two of the skylights are hornito skylights, formed where lava was ejected through the crust of a flow some distance from the source of the magma.
    Skylight-Cave_Three-Beams_2749.jpg
  • The golden light of the late-day sun streaks across the tops of small Puget Sound waves near the Edmonds, Washington, shoreline.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Sunset-Contrast_...jpg
  • Three shafts of sunlight illuminate Skylight Cave in the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon. Skylight Cave is a lava tube and light enters through three skylights. Two of the skylights are hornito skylights, formed where lava was ejected through the crust of a flow some distance from the source of the magma.
    Skylight-Cave_Three-Beams_2771.jpg
  • A vibrant shaft of light shines on the floor of a particularly narrow section of Upper Antelope Canyon on Navajo tribal land in Page, Arizona. The Navajo people call the canyon Tsé bighánílíní dóó Hazdistazí, which means "the place where water runs through rocks." The slot canyon is formed primarily by erosion during flash floods; torrents of water race through the canyon and sculpt the sandstone.
    Antelope-Canyon_Beam_S2574-02.jpg
  • Three shafts of sunlight illuminate Skylight Cave in the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon. Skylight Cave is a lava tube and light enters through three skylights. Two of the skylights are hornito skylights, formed where lava was ejected through the crust of a flow some distance from the source of the magma.
    Skylight-Cave_Three-Beams_2740.jpg
  • A vibrant shaft of light shines on the floor of a particularly narrow section of Upper Antelope Canyon on Navajo tribal land in Page, Arizona. The Navajo people call the canyon Tsé bighánílíní dóó Hazdistazí, which means "the place where water runs through rocks." The slot canyon is formed primarily by erosion during flash floods; torrents of water race through the canyon and sculpt the sandstone.
    Antelope-Canyon-Beam_S02-01-04.jpg
  • The golden light of the late-day sun streaks across the tops of small Puget Sound waves near the Edmonds, Washington, shoreline.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Sunset-Contrast_...jpg
  • A Chincoteague pony (Equus caballus), also known as an Assateague horse, is illuminated by the first light of day in a marsh on Assateague Island in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. About 300 wild — technically feral — ponies roam the island on the Atlantic coast. There is some dispute as to how the ponies ended up on the island. Some researchers believe the ponies are survivors of the wreck of a Spanish galleon, La Galga, which sank just off the coast in 1750; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service believes they are descendants of horses owned by early colonial settlers.
    Assateague-Island_Chincoteague-Pony_...jpg
  • Three vibrant shafts of light appear in a narrow passage in Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon carved by violent flash floods in Page, Arizona. The beams form only when the sun is nearly overhead, lighting up the blowing sand that fills the canyon, which is dozens of feet deep. The Navajo people call the canyon Tsé bighánílíní dóó Hazdistazí, which means "the place where water runs through rocks."
    AntelopeCanyonBeams.jpg
  • The light of the crescent mon shines on the water of Puget Sound at night in this view from Golden Gardens in Seattle, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Glint_Moon_Golden-Garden...jpg
  • The golden light of the setting sun lights up the top of a cumulonimbus cloud as a storm moves in over Bothell, Washington
    Storm-Cloud_Sunset_Bothell_5127.jpg
  • A severe solar storm resulted in this vibrant display of the northern lights (aurora borealis) over several Vancouver Island peaks. Mountains in this image include Mount Walker, Malaspina Peak, Mount Alava, Stevens Peak, Leighton Peak and Conuma Peak.
    NorthernLights-VancouverIsland.jpg
  • The golden light of the late day sun shines across the top of small waves on Puget Sound as viewed from Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Sunset-Contrast_...jpg
  • The golden light of the evening sun illuminates the top of waves on Saratoga Passage just before they crash onto the beach at Camano Island State Park, Camano Island, Washington.
    Saratoga-Passage_Ripples_Sunset_4378.jpg
  • The golden light of the evening sun illuminates the top of waves on Saratoga Passage just before they crash onto the beach at Camano Island State Park, Camano Island, Washington.
    Saratoga-Passage_Ripples_Sunset_4058.jpg
  • Millions of microscopic organisms called dinoflagellates briefly emit a blue light when they are disturbed in the calm waters of Mosquito Bay on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Mosquito Bay — also known as Puerto Mosquito, Caño Hondo and Bahía Bioluminiscente — is the brightest bioluminescent bay in the world with 2.4 million dinoflagellates per gallon of water at the time of this image. The dinoflagellates in Mosquito Bay are Pyrodinium bahamense and are a type of plankton, a subgroup of algae, that are found in Atlantic seawater warmer than 68 °F (20 °C). Mosquito Bay has a number of features that allow these dinoflagellates to exist in record concentrations. First, the bay has a very narrow opening to the Caribbean Sea, so when they are washed into the bay, they tend to get stuck. Mosquito Bay is also lined with mangrove trees, which provide abundant food for the dinoflagellates as they decompose.
    Puerto-Rico_Vieques_Mosquito-Bay_Bio...jpg
  • The golden light of the late-day sun streaks across the tops of numerous small Puget Sound waves off of the Edmonds, Washington, shoreline.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Glint_CloseUp_09...jpg
  • A bright moonbow forms at the base of Upper Yosemite Fall during a full moon in Yosemite National Park, California. Yosemite Falls, height of 2,425 feet (739 meters), is the highest measured waterfall in North America and the fifth-highest in the world. During the late spring when the water flow is at its peak, the light of the full moon and spray of the waterfall result in nighttime rainbows.
    YosemiteFalls_Night_Moonbow_8181.jpg
  • The golden light of the evening sun illuminates the top of waves on Saratoga Passage just before they crash onto the beach at Camano Island State Park, Camano Island, Washington.
    Saratoga-Passage_Ripples_Sunset_4679.jpg
  • The golden light of the evening sun illuminates the top of waves on Saratoga Passage just before they crash onto the beach at Camano Island State Park, Camano Island, Washington.
    Saratoga-Passage_Ripples_Sunset_4321.jpg
  • The golden light of the evening sun illuminates the top of waves on Saratoga Passage just before they crash onto the beach at Camano Island State Park, Camano Island, Washington.
    Saratoga-Passage_Ripples_Sunset_4296.jpg
  • Light filters into a lava tube known as Skylight Cave in Deschutes National Forest in Oregon, revealing the texture of its walls.
    Skylight-Cave_Texture_2686.jpg
  • The golden light of the evening sun illuminates the top of waves on Saratoga Passage just before they crash onto the beach at Camano Island State Park, Camano Island, Washington.
    Saratoga-Passage_Ripples_Sunset_4024.jpg
  • The golden light of the evening sun illuminates the top of waves on Saratoga Passage just before they crash onto the beach at Camano Island State Park, Camano Island, Washington.
    Saratoga-Passage_Ripples_Sunset_4080.jpg
  • The golden light of the late day sun shines across the top of small waves on Puget Sound as viewed from Edmonds, Washington.
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  • The golden light of the late day sun shines across the top of small waves on Puget Sound as viewed from Edmonds, Washington.
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  • The golden light of sunrise shines on pools of water on the volcanic terrace below Strokkur, one of Iceland's most famous geysers.
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  • Strong Pacific Ocean waves pound the rock that is home to Tillamook Rock Lighthouse near Cannon Beach, Oregon. Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, also known as Tillamook Rock Light, operated from 1881 to 1957. It was the most expensive lighthouse in the United States to operate because of strong storms that hampered construction and signficantly damaged the lighthouse after it was completed. Sometimes called the Tillamook Head Lighthouse, it is now privately owned and is unofficially used as a columbarium.
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  • A circumzenithal arc appears to stretch across the tops of trees on Cougar Mountain near Bellevue, Washington. Circumzenithal arcs appear as upside-down rainbows and are the brightest and most colorful of all the solar halos. They appear when the sun is relatively low on the horizon, less than 32 degrees above the horizon and ideally 20°, and cirrus clouds are overhead. Circumzenithal arcs are especially bright and vibrant because the ice crystals in the cirrus clouds are perfectly aligned, passing through almost parallel bands of light.
    Circumzenithal_Arc_3523.jpg
  • A shaft of light, mimicking the shape of an arrowhead, shines through the window of a sandstone formation located near the Arrowhead Trail in the Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada.
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  • The golden light of the late day sun shines across the top of small waves on Puget Sound as viewed from Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Ripples_Sunset_1310.jpg
  • Light shines into a section of the Balconies Cave, a talus cave in Pinnacles National Park, California. The park's high peaks are partial remnants of the ancient Pinnacles volcano, shifted 190 miles north of its original location due to movement of the San Andreas Fault. Talus caves, like Balconies Cave, are narrow passages in the piles of large rocks that have broke off and landed at the base of the peaks.
    Pinnacles-NP_Balconies-Cave_5649.jpg
  • Many of the skyscrapers in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, are visible at night over the colorful, lighted water feature called Childhood Muse in Romare Bearden Park.
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  • A colorful Christmas tree mimics the shape of the Space Needle on the Seattle Center grounds in Seattle, Washington.
    Space-Needle_Christmas-Tree_2269.jpg
  • Crepuscular rays, also known as God beams, shine down on the Stillaguamish River on a foggy morning on Leque Island near Stanwood, Washington.
    Stillaguamish-River_God-Beams_Eide-R...jpg
  • A red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber), backlit in the evening sun, drills holes in an elm tree in Snohomish County, Washington. The red-breasted sapsucker is known for drilling neat rows of shallow holes into trees to collect sap.
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  • A gull appears in silhouette as it flies across the face of the sun, reddened by the smoke from extensive wildfires, in this view from Edmonds, Washington.
    Gull_Puget-Sound_Smoky-Sunset_7274.jpg
  • An elongated glint — a line of sunlight reflected across wavy water — stretches across Puget Sound at sunset from the Edmonds, Washington, waterfront.
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  • A narrow band of sunlight illuminates on band of rolling hills in the Antelope Valley of California near Liebre Mountain.
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  • Trees covered in frost brightly stand out from the shaded hillside along Black Slough near Van Zandt, Washington. Freezing fog rising from the slough on a 17°F morning coated the trees in ice.
    Frost-Covered-Trees_Van-Zandt_6755.jpg
  • A 22° halo forms around the sun over Snohomish County, Washington. The 22° solar halo forms when the sun shines into thin, ice-filled cirrus clouds. The hexagonal ice crystals serve as tiny prisms to create the full-circle rainbow around the sun.
    SolarHalo_22Degree_1846.jpg
  • Bright, rainbow-like colors are visible in thin clouds known as iridescent clouds over Bryce Canyon in Utah. Iridescent clouds are relatively rare and appear in clouds formed of small water droplets of nearly uniform size. Commonly, iridescent clouds are near much thicker clouds that partially hide the sun.
    Cloud_Iridescent_Bryce_1071.jpg
  • Sunlight highlights the spray from Athabasca Falls, a powerful waterfall located in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. Shown here is one channel of the waterfall, which drops 80 feet (24 meters).
    AthabascaFalls_Sunbeams_7115.jpg
  • A bright fogbow frames several tress growing on a bluff high above the Missouri River between Poplar and Brockton, Montana. Fogbows are formed much like rainbows, except the bands of colors overlap, resulting in what appears to be a largely white band. (A faint red band is visible on the outer edge; blue, inside.) The full moon is also visible in the inner band, just above the golden tree.
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  • Solar rays cut through the last traces of fog in the Federation Forest east of Enumclaw, Washington.
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  • The sun's rays shine through trees into early morning fog, creating dramatic beams known as crepuscular rays.
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  • Ripples on Lake Washington near Kenmore, Washington, sparkle as the evening sun casts a glint across the water.
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  • The golden glint cast by the setting sun stretches across a small wave on Puget Sound near the Edmonds, Washingotn, waterfront.
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  • Glowing embers shoot up in the midst of the flames of a fire at night.
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  • Vibrant God beams, called crepuscular rays, form over Cathedral Rock, a towering mountain near Sedona, Arizona. The beams form when the sun shines into fog or mist. The columns at the summit of Cathedral Rock cast three-dimensional shadows between the rays.
    CathedralRocksAZ.jpg
  • A red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber), rendered in near silhouette, pauses between drilling holes in an elm tree in Snohomish County, Washington. The red-breasted sapsucker is known for drilling neat rows of shallow holes into trees to collect sap.
    Sapsucker_Red-Breasted_Silhouette_Ly...jpg
  • A red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) rendered in near silhouette drills holes in an elm tree in Snohomish County, Washington. The red-breasted sapsucker is known for drilling neat rows of shallow holes into trees to collect sap.
    Sapsucker_Red-Breasted_Silhouette_Ly...jpg
  • The late afternoon sun shines through Manneporte, a large sea arch in Étretat, France. Manneporte is the largest of the three natural sea arches that have formed in the white chalk cliffs, known as the Falaise d'Étretat, which are as tall as 90 meters (300 feet).
    Etretat_Manneporte_Afternoon-Sun_BW_...jpg
  • Ripples on Lake Washington near Kenmore, Washington, sparkle as the evening sun casts a glint across the water.
    Lake-Washington_Sun-Glint_Kenmore_91...jpg
  • A double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus), rendered in silhouette, flies over a patch of sunglint on Puget Sound near Edmonds, Washington.
    Cormorant-Double-Crested_Flight_Silh...jpg
  • Sunglint stretches across the ripples of Puget Sound as small waves land on Marina Beach in Edmonds, Washington.
    Puget-Sound_Glint_Ripples_Edmonds_47...jpg
  • A red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) rendered in near silhouette drills holes in an elm tree in Snohomish County, Washington. The red-breasted sapsucker is known for drilling neat rows of shallow holes into trees to collect sap.
    Sapsucker_Red-Breasted_Silhouette_Ly...jpg
  • A rainbow stretches across the sky over Mont Saint-Michel Bay over the tidal island of Tombelaine in Normandy, France.
    MontSaintMichel_Tombelaine_Rainbow_5...jpg
  • The summit of Dead Indian Ridge, located in Washington County Idaho, is in deep shadow as a band of altostratus clouds pass overhead in this view from near Huntington, Oregon.
    ID_Dead-Indian-Ridge_Shadow_3959.jpg
  • Trees covered in frost brightly stand out from the shaded hillside along Black Slough near Van Zandt, Washington. Freezing fog rising from the slough on a 17°F morning coated the trees in ice.
    Frost-Covered-Trees_Van-Zandt_6737.jpg
  • Trees covered in frost brightly stand out from the shaded hillside along Black Slough near Deming, Washington. Freezing fog rising from the slough on a 17°F morning coated the trees in ice.
    Frost-Covered-Trees_Row_Deming_6704.jpg
  • Flames from a fire glow at night.
    Flames_Night_2645.jpg
  • Pacific Goose Barnacles (Mitella polymerus) cling to the walls of a natural sea tunnel at Devil's Punchbowl on the central Oregon coast.
    OR_DevilsPunchbowl_Barnacles_Tunnel_...jpg
  • Bright sunlight from over the Pacific Ocean shines into a dark, narrow sea cave that is part of the Devil's Punchbowl on the central Oregon coast. The force of repeated Pacific Ocean waves carved this path through the hard volcanic rock. The Devil's Punchbowl itself is the remnant of a large sea cave that collapsed, leaving an outer shell that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by two sea arches.
    OR_DevilsPunchbowl_Tunnel_0188.jpg
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  • The afternoon sun shines into thick fog at Cayuse Pass, Washington. The beams are caused by the trees casting their shadows onto the fog.
    CayusePassTreeBeams.jpg
  • A tiny hole in thick storm clouds allows the late afternoon sun to illuminate Bear Mountain while the other peaks near Sedona, Arizona remain in deep shade. This scene was captured from the summit of Doe Mountain.
    AZ_BearMountain.jpg
  • Trees covered in frost brightly stand out from the shaded hillside along Black Slough near Deming, Washington. Freezing fog rising from the slough on a 17°F morning coated the trees in ice.
    Frost-Covered-Trees_Deming_6722.jpg
  • Trees covered in frost brightly stand out from the shaded hillside along Black Slough near Deming, Washington. Freezing fog rising from the slough on a 17°F morning coated the trees in ice.
    Frost-Covered-Trees_Deming_6726.jpg
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  • The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, shine over the Central Cascades in Washington state after a severe solar storm. This image was captured on Green Mountain, near the town of Granite Falls.
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  • The northern lights or aurora borealis faintly shine over the North Cascades of Washington state as the twilight colors fade from the sky.
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  • One of the largest solar flares in years resulted in this display of the northern lights (aurora borealis) over Washington's North Cascades on October 30, 2003. The Big Dipper constellation is visible in the right half of the frame. This image was captured from Mount Pilchuck, east of Everett, Washington.
    NorthernLights_1832_V.jpg
  • One of the largest solar flares on record caused this spectacular display of the northern lights (aurora borealis) over Three Fingers Mountain, Liberty Peak, Whitehorse Mountain and other peaks in Washington's North Cascades.
    Northern-Lights_North-Cascades_1835.jpg
  • The northern lights, or aurora borealis, shine over and are reflect in Lake Mývatn  in northern Iceland. The lake, formed during a lava eruption 2,300 years ago, contains numerous lava pillars and rootless vents, called pseudocraters. Mývatn is Icelandic for "midge lake," and denotes the tremendous number of midge flies found in the area. The aurora borealis, frequently visible during the winter months in Iceland, is caused by charged particles from the sun crashing into the Earth's atmosphere.
    Iceland_Myvatn_NorthernLights_2983.jpg
  • One of the largest solar flares on record caused this spectacular display of the northern lights (aurora borealis) over Three Fingers Mountain and other peaks in Washington's Central Cascades.
    NorthernLights-1836.jpg
  • A short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) flies over a field in the golden last light of day as it hunts in the Skagit Valley near Bow, Washington. The short-eared owl is found over much of North America. It hunts over open fields and grasslands, diving to catch small mammals and birds.
    Owl-Short-Eared_Hunting_Golden-Light...jpg
  • A Chincoteague pony (Equus caballus), also known as an Assateague horse, is illuminated by the first light of day in a marsh on Assateague Island in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. About 300 wild — technically feral — ponies roam the island on the Atlantic coast. There is some dispute as to how the ponies ended up on the island. Some researchers believe the ponies are survivors of the wreck of a Spanish galleon, La Galga, which sank just off the coast in 1750; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service believes they are descendants of horses owned by early colonial settlers.
    Assateague-Island_Chincoteague-Pony_...jpg
  • The first light of day illuminates the very top of El Capitan, a 7,573-foot (2,308 meter) granite peak in Yosemite National Park, California. El Capitan is one of the most prominent peaks in the Yosemite Valley and its name is the Spanish word for "captain," an homage to its Native American name, which meant "chief."
    Yosemite_El-Capitan_First-Light_9403.jpg
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