Just after sunrise on a late September morning, I awoke at my backcountry campsite to find a beautiful combination of soft light, fall foliage, and morning fog from a rocky lookout. I utilized a long exposure to reveal the motion of the clouds streaking through the sky and the fog ever so slightly rolling overContinue reading “Photo of the Week”
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Photo of the Week
A wall of fog on Indian Lake catches the morning sunlight as the tips of distant mountains peek above the fog. Prints Available.
Photo of the Week
There’s nothing quite like an evening drive down lonely country roads, with the windows down and some classic rock pumping, to make you feel alive. Stopping at a beautiful destination for the sunset doesn’t hurt either, and on this warm August evening my lingering thoughts about work and responsibilities melted away as I watched theContinue reading “Photo of the Week”
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Shooting stars streak across the beautiful night sky, at the height of the Perseid meteor shower in August 2016. The otherworldly bentonite clay formations in the foreground were the perfect complement to the shooting stars and the colorful nebulae of the Milky Way galaxy. I stayed up all night watching hundreds of shooting stars streakContinue reading “Photo of the Week”
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With an intimate view of Mount Shuksan, campsites don’t get any better than this. On this summer evening, the rain clouds began to break apart just in time to catch some sunset light and reveal the glaciated face of this incredible mountain. Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. Prints Available.
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The Milky Way galaxy shines in the night sky above the jagged Minarets, as seen from the fractured granite bedrock at Iceberg Lake. Ansel Adams Wilderness, California. Prints Available.
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Rippled badlands in South Dakota’s Badlands National Park look more like a scene from a foreign planet than the Midwest. The badland formations within the park were formed millions of years ago by tiny grains of sand, silt, and clay being cemented together into sedimentary rock over time. Exposed badland formations within the park provideContinue reading “Photo of the Week”
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An iconic Pacific Northwest scene of Punchbowl Falls pouring into a rocky grotto lined with vibrant green mosses and ferns. While inspiring landscapes such as this often seem like permanent fixtures, statues sculpted from the most impervious stone imaginable, we are sometimes reminded just how fragile the Earth is. Due to the careless acts ofContinue reading “Photo of the Week”
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Lush, mineral-rich mountainsides filled with wildflowers and cascading streams above a bright blue alpine lake give this scene from Colorado a decidedly tropical feel. Prints Available.
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A group of hikers wander along the shore of aquamarine Lake Oesa in Yoho National Park. Prints Available.
Joey Priola Wilderness Photography 