Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 17 images found }

Loading ()...

  • Smooth patches of a granite face, known as glacial polish, shine in the late afternoon sun near Olmsted Point in Yosemite National Park, California. Rocks and other materials get trapped on the bottom of glaciers. As glaciers move down the face of a rock, these materials become part of a very abrasive surface. Combined with the force from the glacier's tremendous weight, they are able to scour away sections of the rock face they travel over, leaving behind a smooth, shiny, polished finish.
    Yosemite_GlacialPolish_9156.jpg
  • Smooth patches of a granite face, known as glacial polish, shine in the late afternoon sun near Olmsted Point in Yosemite National Park, California. Rocks and other materials get trapped on the bottom of glaciers. As glaciers move down the face of a rock, these materials become part of a very abrasive surface. Combined with the force from the glacier's tremendous weight, they are able to scour away sections of the rock face they travel over, leaving behind a smooth, shiny, polished finish.
    Yosemite_GlacialPolish_9137.jpg
  • A small patch of rough bark contrasts with the rest of the tree's smooth, weathered trunk, submerged for 100 years in Rattlesnake Lake near North Bend, Washington. The stump reemerged after the lake lost most of its water in a prolonged drought.
    Rattlesnake-Lake_Bark-Exposed-Stump_...jpg
  • Sliding Rock, a waterfall in the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina, gently slides about 60 feet (18 meters) over smooth rock. During the summer months, Sliding Rock is a popular tourist attraction with people who use the waterfall as a water slide.
    NC_Sliding-Rock_1371.jpg
  • This close up view of a portion of Nooksack Falls, an 88 foot (27 meter) waterfall in the North Cascades of Washington state, shows that the force of the water has smoothed the rock of the gorge.
    Nooksack-Falls_Detail_1547.jpg
  • Weathered driftwood rests against a large beach rock in Marina Beach Park, Edmonds, Washington.
    Driftwood_Weathered_Smooth_Edmonds_0...jpg
  • Weathered driftwood rests against a large beach rock in Marina Beach Park, Edmonds, Washington.
    Driftwood_Weathered_Smooth_Edmonds_0...jpg
  • Some bark remains intact around the base of a dead tree that had been submerged for 100 years in Rattlesnake Lake near North Bend, Washington. The lake level dropped after a prolonged flood, exposing the stump and the preserved bark that's pulling away from it.
    Rattlesnake-Lake_Bark-Exposed-Peelin...jpg
  • A stream of water flows over river rocks along the Snoqualmie River near Fall City, Washington.
    Snoqualmie-River_Rocks_Fall-City_292...jpg
  • Some bark remains intact around the base of a dead tree that had been submerged for 100 years in Rattlesnake Lake near North Bend, Washington. The lake level dropped after a prolonged flood, exposing the stump and the preserved bark that's pulling away from it.
    Rattlesnake-Lake_Bark-Exposed-Peelin...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
  • Baring Creek flows through a very narrow gorge, called Sunrift Gorge, in Glacier National Park, Montana. The gorge has very smooth, straight sides because it eroded along vertical fractures in the rock known as joints. Sunrift Gorge began to form after large Pleistocene glaciers began to retreat from that area and with a maximum cut down rate of 0.003 inch per year, this gorge is the result of several millions of years of erosion.
    Glacier_SunriftGorge_0812.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
  • Otter Falls races down relatively smooth granite into Lipsy Lake. No otters live here; the falls were presumably named for the fact that otters might enjoy the natural slide. Otter Falls is estimated at 1,600 feet tall, though only the bottom few hundred feet are visible here. The falls, located east of North Bend, Washington in the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, is typically dry by mid-summer.
    OtterFalls_6436.jpg
  • A few determined trees have managed to take hold and grow on an otherwise smooth granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California.
    Yosemite_TreeDome_0779.jpg
  • Pahoehoe lava, characterized by its smooth, rope-like appearance, is one of three types of lava. Pahoehoe's ropy surface forms when a thin skin of cool lava is shoved into folds by hot, more-fluid lava just below the surface. This sample was found in Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho. Pahoehoe is pronounced Pa-hoy-hoy.
    CratersOfTheMoon_Pahoehoe_2534.jpg
  • Hundreds of Vaux's swifts (Chaetura vauxi) gather at dusk before roosting in 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.
    Swifts_Vauxs_Flock_Monroe_3224.jpg
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x

Living Wilderness Nature Photography

  • Nature Photography Galleries
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area
  • Portfolio
  • Search Nature Photography
  • Books
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact