BomboraThe flared granitic slope of Western Australia's Wave Rock reaches upward some fifteen meters (46 feet) but holds an eternal crest as it refuses to yield to gravity.

Wintertime  moisture on Looking Glass Rock is frozen as an ice sheet on the rock face and the resemblance to a mirror is how the water fall gets its name

to elevated plain

Four grizzly bears come to the water in search of a family-style fish dinner

distant energy enlivens a sandstone and its rain-filled depressions atop a popular vortex destination

below the Teton Range  water en route to Jackson Hole hesitates long enough to mirror the mountain peaks

It was a summer evening the Grand Canyon relished

It seems so magnificently old it is hard to believe it has only been in use for only a little over 110 years

From the Basin and the Range Province upward through escarpments to the dramatic Colorado Plateau

cool and fascinating caverns have been tucked into earthen skirts

Wildebeest herd moving through grassland adjacent to the desolate Etosha Pan

Spotlight attention on Sedona's Cathedral Rock

spared by conservationism