Falling WaterLooking Glass Falls in the Pisgah National Forest of North Carolina is a 60 foot (18 meter) drop for water of the Davidson River. 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.

The cluster of palms in this image was taken at La Campana National Park where the tree is preserved

Chile and Argentina share the Andes in the deep south of South America and this Chilean image is from those treasured borderlands

A panda face is the object of a beam of light in its forested habitat

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

Can you imagine yourself an explorer whose wanderings make you the discoverer of a new world

A storm gathers above and a storm gathers on land as the hooves of wild horses amass in Argentina's Patagonia

The instant I leaped across the road a woman came running out of the cottage yelling at the top of her voice

It was a summer evening the Grand Canyon relished

the water flowing in the Verdon River has carved a giant canyon through limestone en route to the Durance River and is a beautiful and prominent landscape feature in the South of France

Arizona's grand diversity is an ongoing celebration

located in an oak tree high above the earthen floor offers protection from predators

A gopher snake appears to comtemplate a fruit growing in the underbrush of the high desert