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  • A male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) rests in the surf on the beach at the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery near San Simeon, California, as a gull stands nearby. Elephant seals typically spend 9 months at sea, coming to shore only to give birth and mate. Male elephant seals, known as bulls, are exceptionally large, weighing up to 5,500 pounds (2,500 kilograms). 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_4971.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 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 male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) rests in the twilight surf 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. Male elephant seals, known as bulls, are exceptionally large, weighing up to 5,500 pounds (2,500 kilograms). 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_Twilig...jpg
  • An adult male elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) rests on the sandy 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-Seal_Piedras-Blancas_Male_R...jpg
  • A harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) hides in a patch of sea foam on Puget Sound in Ballard, Washington.
    Seal-Harbor_Sea-Foam_Ballard_7306.jpg
  • A dark harbor seal (Phoca vitulina richardii) stretches while hauled out on a rock near Ratner Beach in Malibu, California.
    Harbor-Seal_Stretching_Malibu_3660.jpg
  • A harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) swims among the towering icebergs in the glacial lagoon, Jökulsárlón, Iceland. The icebergs floating in the lake calved off from the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier with some of the ice being more than 1,000 years old. Jökulsárlón covers an area of about 18 square kilometers (6.9 square miles) and ranks as the deepest lake in Iceland.
    Iceland_Jokulsarlon_Seal_3631.jpg
  • Two elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) prepare to mate 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, 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_Matin...jpg
  • Two elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) prepare to mate 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, 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_Matin...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.
    Elephant-Seals_Piedras-Blancas_Full-...jpg
  • A harbor or harbour seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as a common seal, swims between icebergs in Jökulsárlón, the glacier lagoon in Iceland. The harbor seal is Iceland's second-smallest seal, and one of only two types that pup there.
    Iceland_HarborSeal_Jokulsarlon_5620.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
  • Several elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) pups cuddle up next to a female elephant seal 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, 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_Pups_...jpg
  • An elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) pup rests next to its mother 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, 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_Pup-M...jpg
  • A New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) rests on the rocks on the coast of the South Island of New Zealand near Kaikoura. The New Zealand fur seal is also known as the southern fur seal, and as kekeno in the Māori language.
    NZ_FurSeal_NewZealand_Kaikoura_4441.jpg
  • A New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) rests on the rocks on the coast of the South Island of New Zealand near Kaikoura. The New Zealand fur seal is also known as the southern fur seal, and as kekeno in the Māori language.
    NZ_FurSeal_NewZealand_Kaikoura_4770.jpg
  • A common harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) catches a salmon in the Squamish River near Brackendale, British Columbia, Canada.
    HarborSeal_fish_4121.jpg
  • A New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) rests on a rocky cliff near Kaikoura, New Zealand.
    NZ_FurSeal_2523.jpg
  • A male elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) tosses sand into the air while resting next to several female seals 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, 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_Group...jpg
  • Three female northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris), also known as cows, rest together 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. 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-Seals_Piedras-Blancas_Three...jpg
  • Several New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri), one adult and two pups, rest on the rocks on the coast of the South Island of New Zealand near Kaikoura. The New Zealand fur seal is also known as the southern fur seal, and as kekeno in the Māori language.
    NZ_FurSeals_NewZealand_Kaikoura_4669.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
  • A young harbor seal pup (Phoca vitulina) swims with its mother in Discovery Bay near the Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    HarborSeals_MotherAndPup_DiscoveryBa...jpg
  • A young harbor seal pup (Phoca vitulina) swims with its mother in Puget Sound near Port Townsend, Washington.
    HarborSeals_MotherAndPup_RatIsland_0...jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5422.jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5316.jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5437.jpg
  • Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) share the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_SealsAndGulls_52...jpg
  • A group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_8223.jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5262.jpg
  • A group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) rest on the eastern tip of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County, Washington, as Mount Baker towers in the background.  Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals. Mount Baker is a 10,781 foot (3,286 meter) volcano that is part of the Cascade Mountain Range.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_Seals_MountBaker...jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5399.jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington as hundreds of gulls fly in the background. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5552.jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5369.jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5606.jpg
  • Several Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) attempt to sun themselves on the rocky shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca off Vancouver Island, but they are constantly interrupted by crashing waves.
    VancouverIsland_HarborSeals_5017.jpg
  • The sun sets over the Pacific Ocean and Sugar Loaf Islands, a series of small, uninhabited islands near Port Taranaki on the North Island of New Zealand. The islands are remnants of an ancient volcanic crater that has eroded into small islands and sea stacks. That volcano last erupted approximately 1.7 million years ago. In this image, Motuotamatea Island (Snapper Rock) is visible on the left. On the right, from front to back, the islands are Mataora Island (Round Rock), Pararaki Island (Seagull Rock) and Waikaranga Island (Seal Rocks).
    NZ_Nga-Motu_Sugar-Loaf-Islands_Sunse...jpg
  • Viewed from the north, a forest is visible on the high bluffs of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_8180.jpg
  • This view of the southwestern side of Protection Island shows the erosion that has been reudcing the size of the island, located in Jefferson County, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_8257.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.
    CraterLake_ZodiacalLight_9620.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 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
  • Thousands of stars and the planet Venus shine over Crater Lake in Oregon just before sunrise. The planet Venus is the brightest object in the sky and is visible near the center of the image and reflected in the lake. 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_Stars_Dawn_9769.jpg
  • The sun sets behind the rim of Crater Lake in this view from the Cloud Cap Overlook in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. 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 cone, is visible in the lake just beneath the sun; Phantom Ship, another remnant of volcanic activity, is visible as an island on the left side of the image.
    CraterLake_CloudCap_Sunset_9744.jpg
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