K. has been painted green and blue for a high school art project.
A. returns from the Milky Way at the edge of town - a composite photograph
Everything found on a half hour walk after a torrential rainstorm.
An evening deep in West Texas
Days away from turning 15, A. takes a break to play bass between his Eagle Scout Court and his driver’s permit test.
Researcher Dr. Alfredo Granados Olivas’ beloved dog Thor — named for the Norse god of agriculture and thunder — heads towards the vermicompost area of Rancho El Regalo. There, Granados’ California red worms create the compost he uses to augment the soil. Listen to the podcast: The Water Diplomats, Tapped, Arizona Public Media
Tiny people get a last look at the outside world from just below the mouth of Carlsbad Caverns.
S., an Oregon-based artist, holds up her latest find.
Ravens in a snowstorm, Sitka 2015
The largest urban bat colony in North America lives under the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas. Every night at sunset from March to November, 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats fly out for their nightly hunt. The form clouds that loop and whirl around the skyscrapers, searching for insects all night long until they return to their hidden home under the bridge just before sunrise.
On a rainy summer day at Washington D.C.’s Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park drum circle, one man accompanies the drummers on a wooden flute.
M., mid-back flip
A praying mantis creeps across the sweet potato vines.
Dancing in the sky - a composite photograph
While hiking in the mountains in Alaska in late summer 2015, I found a wallet in a fresh rockslide. I was able to track down the owner — he had dropped his wallet near the trail 40 years earlier.
Read and listen to the story here: www.alaskapublic.org/2015/12/11/ak-in-a-wallet-missing-40-years-sitkan/
Texas A&M University students protest the arrival of white supremacist Richard Spencer
F., wearing a mask to give herself two faces, does a drop on aerial silks
Seining the beach in the Gulf of Alaska
D., in a film photo developed by dipping my fingers in developer
Central Oregon trees stripped from the 2012 Pole Creek Fire
Texas is flat for hundreds of miles. Eight hours of cattle, pecans, cotton, oil donkeys, natural gas flares, wind turbines. And then suddenly — mountains, cropping up blue on the horizon like a hallucination.
D. and S. in the hills above town
P. watches pelicans at sunset on the Gulf.
A self portrait of memory: I came to photography because of Oma, who began photographing in the 1930s in Europe and later worked testing early color film.
J. dances in the wind in Cherry Hill Park
I., somewhere between breaststroke and underwater prayer
Dresden, Germany, old and new, in early summer
The lifetime of a bell pepper, from my garden to my gumbo.
J. runs up the ridge just before sunset
Out on the bayous of East Texas
F. and C. dance together on aerial silks
A hummingbird fluffs itself up in the chill following an October rainstorm in Oregon
BMXers practice along the Thames Embankment in London.
Children play on the beach in Sitka on the summer solstice
A bee enjoying a luffa blossom
S. in her natural habitat
Old and older face each other in Dresden, Germany
Seagulls gather in the harbor in herring season in Sitka, Alaska
L. on a sunny day spent exploring in the hills
M. and other beings
A young lion cub and an African grey parrot greet each other near Gobabis, Namibia
A small plane flies over the Columbia River Gorge at sunset
S., covered in paper cranes.
Finding a spider web after rain
A Texas spotted whiptail pauses in the underbrush
Educators prepare to gather samples for an in-class demonstration in southeast Alaska
M. on ukulele late in the evening
A fiery sun sets over Hillsborough, North Carolina
N. dries his shoes and reads by the fire after jumping into the ocean in southeast Alaska
The geology of Big Bend is a tale of differential erosion
Just a few weeks before I. was born, J. stretches in the afternoon light
Dancers pause for effect during a contact improv show
Power lines stretch out across Lake Pontchartrain
A whale dives as the mist clears in southeast Alaska.
J. pauses in a tunnel in the Great Smoky Mountains
The Rio Grande moves through Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. Learn more about the Rio Grande