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  • A long exposure captures the movement of white rhododendron Chionoides blossoms blowing in the breeze in Snohomish County, Washington.
    Rhododendron_WhiteBlossoms_Abstract_...jpg
  • A long exposure captures the movement of a school of koi (Cyprinus carpio), a domesticated type of common carp, in a koi pond in Makena, Maui, Hawai`i.
    Koi_SwimmingAbstract_Makena_6617.jpg
  • A long exposure captures the movement of a school of koi (Cyprinus carpio), a domesticated type of common carp, in a koi pond in Makena, Maui, Hawai`i.
    Koi_SwimmingAbstract_Makena_6582.jpg
  • A red fox (Vulpes vulpes) kit runs with prey provided by its mother in tall grass in San Juan Island National Historical Park on San Juan Island, Washington. Even though both of these foxes are black, all of the foxes in the park are technically red foxes, regardless of their color. Red foxes were introduced to San Juan Island on various occasions in the 1900s.
    Fox-Red_Kit_Prey_Motion-Blur_San-Jua...jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of an American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) flying over the Potholes Canal on its way to hunt in the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge in Grant County, Washington.
    WA_Columbia-NWR_Pelican_Flying-Motio...jpg
  • The motion of a glaucous-winged gull (Larus glaucescens) in flight is captured in this long exposure over Puget Sound in Edmonds, Washington. The gull had just caught a small fish in the sound.
    Gull-Glaucous-Winged_Flight_Long-Exp...jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of storm clouds as they move over the Blue Ridge Mountains in this view from Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
    Shenandoah_Ridge-View_Cloud-Motion_9...jpg
  • A cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) calls from the top of a Sitka spruce tree on Spencer Island in Everett, Washington.
    Waxwing_Cedar_Calling_Spencer-Island...jpg
  • An American bison (Bison bison) walks in deep snow near Fountain Flat in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Bison are well equiped for harsh winter conditions. They grow a winter coat of wooly underfur, which has coarse hairs that protect them from the elements. The humps on their backs also contain muscles supported by long vertebrae that help swing their heads to move vast amounts of snow.
    Bison_Snow_Yellowstone_4420.jpg
  • An American bison (Bison bison) forces its way through deep snow near Fountain Flat in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Bison are well equipped for harsh winter conditions. They grow a winter coat of woolly underfur, which has coarse hairs that protect them from the elements. The humps on their backs also contain muscles supported by long vertebrae that help swing their heads to move vast amounts of snow.
    Bison_Snow_Yellowstone_4275.jpg
  • A Gulf fritillary or passion butterfly (Agraulis vanillae) watches as another flies by in the Vieques National Wildlife Refuge, Vieques, Puerto Rico. The Gulf fritiallry is a widespread neotropical butterfly, found from the south-central United States to southern South America.
    Butterfly_Gulf-fritillary_Vieques_79...jpg
  • Hundreds of Vaux's swifts (Chaetura vauxi) circle then dive into the chimney at the Wagner Center in Monroe, Washington, during their fall migration. Vaux's swifts do not have back talons, so they cannot stand or perch. They roost by clinging to rough surfaces, mainly old-growth trees, but also old chimneys and smoke stacks that do not have smooth interior liners. As many as 26,000 Vaux's swifts have perched in the Monroe chimney at a time.
    Swifts_Vauxs_Chimney_Monroe_Motion_9...jpg
  • A large flock of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos), known as a murder, circles against the night sky as the birds look for a place to roost in Bothell, Washington. An estimated 10,000 crows roost in a small area in the city each night.
    Crows_Murder_Sky-Full_Flash_Bothell_...jpg
  • Large rocks in the Snoqualmie River result in small cascades as the river flows over them near Snoqualmie, Washington.
    SnoqualmieRiver_Cascades_5702.jpg
  • Ripples on the water show the motion of a Common Water Strider (Gerris species) across a small pond in Seattle, Washington. Common Water Stiders seem to skate across water. They rely on the surface tension of water to remain above the surface and use their two center legs like row boat oars to move.
    WaterStrider_Ripples_2533.jpg
  • Three Canada geese (Branta canadensis) fly over the Squamish River during a snow storm near Brackendale, British Columbia, Canada.
    CanadaGeese_FlyingInSnowStorm_Bracke...jpg
  • A long camera exposure captures the motion of a large flock of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) turning as they fly over a field in Skagit County, Washington. The camera was panned with the birds flying to the right; birds that had made a U-turn and were flying left were blurred. Starlings typically fly in very large groups, often visible from large distances, to protect themselves against hawks and other predators..
    Starlings_LargeFlock_TurningMotion_6...jpg
  • An adult bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) flies low over the Squamish River in Brackendale, British Columbia, Canada.
    BaldEagle_SquamishRiver_Flying_3533.jpg
  • Thousands of shorebirds, mainly dunlin (Calidris alpina), fly over the Bowerman Basin in Washington's Grays Harbor. As many as a million shorebirds make a brief stop in the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge each spring during their migration north to their breeding grounds.
    Shorebirds_Bowerman_Dunlin_5767.jpg
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  • An American bison (Bison bison) runs in the snow near Junction Butte in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Bison are well equipped for harsh winter conditions. They grow a winter coat of woolly underfur, which has coarse hairs that protect them from the elements. The humps on their backs also contain muscles supported by long vertebrae that help swing their heads to move vast amounts of snow.
    Bison_Snow_Yellowstone_5292.jpg
  • Waves from Puget Sound streak past a cluster of barnacles at Carkeek Park in Seattle, Washington.
    Barnacles_Wave-Streaks_Carkeek_P9040...jpg
  • An American bison (Bison bison) forces its way through deep snow near Fountain Flat in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Bison are well equiped for harsh winter conditions. They grow a winter coat of wooly underfur, which has coarse hairs that protect them from the elements. The humps on their backs also contain muscles supported by long vertebrae that help swing their heads to move vast amounts of snow.
    Bison_Snow_Yellowstone_4275sq.jpg
  • Two bison (Bison bison) trudge through deep snow near Fountain Flat in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Bison are well equipped for harsh winter conditions. They grow a winter coat of woolly underfur, which has coarse hairs that protect them from the elements. The humps on their backs also contain muscles supported by long vertebrae that help swing their heads to move vast amounts of snow.
    Bison_Snow_Two_Fountain-Flat_Yellows...jpg
  • Hundreds of Vaux's swifts (Chaetura vauxi) circle then dive into the chimney at the Wagner Center in Monroe, Washington, during their fall migration. Vaux's swifts do not have back talons, so they cannot stand or perch. They roost by clinging to rough surfaces, mainly old-growth trees, but also old chimneys and smoke stacks that do not have smooth interior liners. As many as 26,000 Vaux's swifts have perched in the Monroe chimney at a time.
    Swifts_Vauxs_Chimney_Monroe_Motion_9...jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of a murder of American crows flying over snow-covered trees along the Sammamish River in Bothell, Washington. During the winter months, 15,000 crows roost each night in the area.
    Crows_Murder_Snow_3570.jpg
  • Hundreds of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in a large flock, known as a murder, fly over bare winter trees along the Sammamish River in Bothell, Washington, on a dark, cloudy day. An estimated 10,000 crows roost in a small area in the city each night.
    Crows_Murder_Stormy_Bothell_3395.jpg
  • A flock of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos), known as a murder, fly across the twilight sky on their way to roosting grounds in Bothell, Washington. An estimated 10,000 crows roost in a small area of the city each night.
    Crows_Murder_In-Flight_North-Creek_2...jpg
  • A pine siskin (Spinus pinus) takes off from an alder tree in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington. The pine siskin is a finch that is very nomadic, potentially wintering in different areas each year. It is found in open coniferous or mixed forests and feeds on buds and seeds of alders, birches, pines, hemlocks and other trees.
    Siskin_Pine_TakingOff_Arboretum_4691.jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of four sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), showing their red breeding coloration, swimming fast up the Cedar River in Renton, Washington toward their spawning grounds. Sockeye salmon are blue-tinged and silver when they live in the ocean; their bodies turn red and their heads green when they return to freshwater rivers to spawn.
    Salmon_Sockeye_LongExposure_Renton_4...jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of a large flock of snow geese (Chen caerulescens) taking off from a field at sunset in the Skagit Valley of Washington state. Snow geese, which breed in the northern reaches of Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Sibera, winter throughout the United States and into Mexico. Tens of thousands of snow geese winter in the Skagit Valley to feed in farmers' fields.
    SnowGeese_Flock_Skagit_MotionBlur_64...jpg
  • An adult bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) flies through the forest at the Brackendale Eagles Provincial Park in Brackendale, British Columbia, Canada.
    BaldEagle_FlyingInForest_Brackendale...jpg
  • A common merganser (Mergus merganser) lifts off from the Snohomish River near Kenmore, Washington. The merganser's motion is blurred by a long exposure.
    Merganser_Common_LiftingOff_7430.jpg
  • Thousands of shorebirds, mainly dunlin (Calidris alpina), fly over the Bowerman Basin in Washington's Grays Harbor. As many as a million shorebirds make a brief stop in the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge each spring during their migration north to their breeding grounds.
    Shorebirds_Bowerman_6176.jpg
  • Molten lava flows from an opening at the end of a lava tube from the Pu'u O'o Kila vent in Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii.
    LavaFlow-8663.jpg
  • A bison (bison bison) is airborne as it runs in the snow near Junction Butte in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Even though bison can weigh 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms), they can run at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour (56 km/h).
    Bison_Running_Snow_Yellowstone_5350.jpg
  • A young red fox (Vulpes vulpes) runs with the leg of a European rabbit on the prairie of the San Juan Island National Historical Park on San Juan Island, Washington. All of the foxes in the park are technically red foxes, even if they are black, silver or tan. Red foxes were introduced to San Juan Island on various occasions in the 1900s.
    Fox-Red_Kit_Black_Prairie_Rabbit_San...jpg
  • A cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) calls as it dives from near the top of a Sitka spruce tree on Spencer Island in Everett, Washington.
    Waxwing_Cedar_Diving_Spencer-Island_...jpg
  • A northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) flips sand onto her back on 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 and mate, and researchers believe flipping sand onto their backs may help regulate their body temperatures while on shore. Elephant seals are named for the long snouts 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-Seal_Piedras-Blancas_Sand_F...jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of a flock of pigeons flying at sunrise over Venice Beach, Venice, California.
    Pigeon_Flock_Flight-Motion_Venice_72...jpg
  • A large flock of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos), known as a murder, circles against the night sky as the birds look for a place to roost in Bothell, Washington. An estimated 10,000 crows roost in a small area in the city each night.
    Crows_Murder_Sky-Full_Flash_Bothell_...jpg
  • Thousands of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in a large flock known as a murder fly over Bothell, Washington, at dusk. An estimated 10,000 crows roost in a small area in the city each night.
    Crows_Murder_Sky-Full_Bothell_4061.jpg
  • A large flock of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos), known as a murder, flies past bare winter trees along the Sammamish River in Bothell, Washington, on a dark, cloudy day. An estimated 10,000 crows roost in a small area in the city each night.
    Crows_Murder_Stormy_Bothell_3352.jpg
  • An adult bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) flies past bare winter trees as it searches for food in the Skagit River in the North Cascades of Washington state.
    BaldEagle_Flying_Skagit_BareForest_9...jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of three sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), showing their red breeding coloration, swimming up the Cedar River in Renton, Washington toward their spawning grounds. Sockeye salmon are blue-tinged and silver when they live in the ocean; their bodies turn red and their heads green when they return to freshwater rivers to spawn.
    Salmon_Sockeye_LongExposure_Renton_4...jpg
  • A Short-Eared Owl (Asio flammeus) hunts for food by flying along the edge of Boundary Bay in British Columbia, Canada. The Short-Eared Owl has one of the widest distributions of any bird, found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica.
    Owl_ShortEared_FlyingMotion_Boundary...jpg
  • Ripples on the water show the motion of a Common Water Strider (Gerris species) across a small pond in Seattle, Washington. Common Water Stiders seem to skate across water. They rely on the surface tension of water to remain above the surface and use their two center legs like row boat oars to move.
    WaterStrider_Ripples_2135.jpg
  • A long camera exposure captures the motion of a large flock of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) as they fly over a field in Skagit County, Washington. Starlings typically fly in very large groups, often visible from large distances, to protect themselves against hawks and other predators.
    Starlings_LargeFlock_Impressionistic...jpg
  • Thousands of shorebirds, mainly dunlin (Calidris alpina), fly over the Bowerman Basin in Washington's Grays Harbor at sunrise.
    Shorebirds_Bowerman_Sunrise_5833.jpg
  • Thousands of shorebirds, mainly dunlin (Calidris alpina), fly over the Bowerman Basin in Washington's Grays Harbor at sunrise. As many as a million shorebirds make a brief stop in the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge each spring during their migration north to their breeding grounds.
    Shorebirds_Bowerman_Sunrise_5249.jpg
  • A northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) flips sand onto her back on 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 and mate, and researchers believe flipping sand onto their backs may help regulate their body temperatures while on shore. Elephant seals are named for the long snouts 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-Seal_Piedras-Blancas_Sand_F...jpg
  • A large flock of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos), known as a murder, circles against the night sky as the birds look for a place to roost in Bothell, Washington. An estimated 10,000 crows roost in a small area in the city each night.
    Crows_Murder_Sky-Full_Flash_Bothell_...jpg
  • Thousands of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in a large flock, known as a murder, fill the sky over Bothell, Washington, at dusk. An estimated 10,000 crows roost in a small area there each night.
    Crows_Murder_Sky-Full_Bothell_4095.jpg
  • A large flock of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos), known as a murder, flies past bare winter trees along North Creek in Bothell, Washington, at dusk on their way to their night roosting grounds. An estimated 10,000 crows roost in a small area in the city each night.
    Crows_Murder_In-Flight_North-Creek_1...jpg
  • Golden grasses and California poppies blow in the strong wind along the Seaview Trail in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, California.
    CA_Tilden_Grasses_Wind_1727.jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of four sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), showing their red breeding coloration, swimming fast up the Cedar River in Renton, Washington toward their spawning grounds. Sockeye salmon are blue-tinged and silver when they live in the ocean; their bodies turn red and their heads green when they return to freshwater rivers to spawn.
    Salmon_Sockeye_LongExposure_Renton_4...jpg
  • A long exposure captures the motion of a large flock of snow geese (Chen caerulescens) taking off from a field at sunset in the Skagit Valley of Washington state. Snow geese, which breed in the northern reaches of Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Sibera, winter throughout the United States and into Mexico. Tens of thousands of snow geese winter in the Skagit Valley to feed in farmers' fields.
    SnowGeese_Flock_Skagit_MotionBlur_63...jpg
  • An exceptionally large concentration of shorebirds flies over Bowerman Basin in the Grays Harbor National Refuge in Washington during the spring migration. This flock consists mainly of dunlin (Calidris alpina) and western sandpipers (Calidris mauri). As many as a million shorebirds make a brief stop in the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge each spring during their migration north to their breeding grounds.
    Shorebirds_Bowerman_LargeFlock_6343.jpg
  • Camera movement during a long exposure blurs the fall color on a vine maple near Nason Creek in Washington state.
    FallColor_VineMaple_Abstract_NearNas...jpg
  • Intentional camera movement creates an impressionisic view of a stand of mature trees in the forest at Edith Moulton Park, Kirkland, Washington.
    WA_Edith-Moulton_Forest_Impressionis...jpg
  • The late afternoon sun brings out the golden color of the High Peaks in Pinnacles National Park, California. The High Peaks, some of which are nearly 2,500 feet (750 meters) tall, are partial remnants of the ancient Pinnacles volcano, shifted 190 miles north of its original location due to movement of the San Andreas Fault. Three turkey vultures are visible soaring in the sky above the saddle between two of the peaks.
    Pinnacles-NP_High-Peaks_5713.jpg
  • Camera movement during a long exposure resulted in this impressionistic view of a fallen tree over Yosemite Creek in Yosemite National Park, California. Neighboring granite walls, turned golden by the rising sun, are reflected on the surface of the water.
    Yosemite_YosemiteCreek_FallenTree_Im...jpg
  • A long camera exposure captures the movement of several small waves at twilight off Damon Point at Ocean Shores, Washington.
    WA_DamonPoint_TwilightWaves_5669.jpg
  • Camera movement during a long exposure creates an impressionistic stacked view of the Olympic Mountains over Puget Sound in this view from Edmonds, Washington.
    Olympic-Mountains_Puget-Sound_Impres...jpg
  • Puget Sound and the rocky beach at Mukilteo catch the last light of day as the sun sets behind Whidbey Island, Washington. A long exposure blurs the movement of the waves on Puget Sound.
    MukilteoBeach_WideView_Twilight_1188.jpg
  • Camera movement during a long exposure resulted in this impressionistic view of red oak leaves outlined by frost.
    OakLeaves_Red_Frost_Impressionistic_...jpg
  • The Painted Hills in John Day National Monument, Oregon are comprised of several layers of ash and pumice deposits from the Cascades and area volcanoes. The deposits were laid down approximately 33 million years ago. Eventually the layers were thrust upward and tilted by movement of the Earth's plates. The red comes from rusty iron minerals; golden layers are rich with oxidized magnesium and iron, metamorphic claystone; the black comes from manganese.
    OR_PaintedHills_WideView_3192.jpg
  • A moose (Alces alces) shakes to dry off as it emerges from Fishercap Lake, located in Glacier National Park, Montana. The moose and the flying water droplets are blurred by a long exposure to capture their movement.
    moose-FishercapLake-0377.jpg
  • The movement of the camera during a long exposure creates an impressionistic view of violet dahlias and their reflections in the water lily pond of Claude Monet's garden at Giverny, France.
    Giverny_Dahlias_Impressionistic_4077.jpg
  • An especially fiery sunset reddens the water of Puget Sound as it crashes up against a large piece of driftwood on the Edmonds, Washington waterfront. A 30-second camera exposure blurs the movement over the water.
    Driftwood_RedSunset_Edmonds_3518.jpg
  • A long camera exposure captures the movement of several small Pacific Ocean waves at twilight off Damon Point at Ocean Shores, Washington.
    WA_DamonPoint_TwilightWaves_5661.jpg
  • The movement of the camera during a long exposure turns the colorful blossoms of cherry trees in the Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington, into a colorful, impressionistic scene.
    Arboretum_Cherry-Blossoms_Impression...jpg
  • The Painted Hills in John Day National Monument, Oregon are comprised of several layers of ash and pumice deposits from the Cascades and area volcanoes. The deposits were laid down approximately 33 million years ago. Eventually the layers were thrust upward and tilted by movement of the Earth's plates. The red comes from rusty iron minerals; golden layers are rich with oxidized magnesium and iron, metamorphic claystone; the black comes from manganese.
    OR_PaintedHills_Palette_3240.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
  • The golden light of sunset highlights the harsh environment near the summit of the High Peaks in Pinnacles National Park, California, illustrated in part by a radically-curved tree. The High Peaks, some of which are nearly 2,500 feet (750 meters) tall, are partial remnants of the ancient Pinnacles volcano, shifted 190 miles north of its original location due to movement of the San Andreas Fault.
    Pinnacles-NP_High-Peaks_Stormy-Sunse...jpg
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