Wilson Peak (14,016') and Mount Wilson (14,252'), San Miguel County, CO
Aspiration: Hope is not born on mountain tops, but in valleys when you're looking to the heights and peaks that you're yet to climb.
~UnknownWilson Peak14ersMount WilsonSan Miguel CountyCOsan juan mountainslizard head wildernesstelluriderico
Reflection of Grand Teton - Grand Teton National Park, WY
"Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep."
~ Ralph Waldo EmersonPhotographernaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercoloradoWyomingTeton
Alpine Clouds Sky...
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
~ BuddhaSunsetmountainsMt. EvansGrays PeakTorreys Peakcloudsrainstormsthunderstormscolorado14ers
Lower Yellowstone Falls -Yellowstone National Park, WY
"There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who standing looking
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it really makes me wonder"
~ Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)Lower Yellowstone FallsYellowstone National ParkWYnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercolorado
Milky Way Over Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
"If you want to see a black hole tonight, tonight just look in the direction of Sagittarius, the constellation. That's the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and there's a raging black hole at the very center of that constellation that holds the galaxy together."
~ Michio Kakunaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Hoarfrost - Yellowstone National Park, WY
"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."
~John Burroughs
Mount Wilson (14,246') and Wilson Peak (14,017'') - Lizard Head Pass, CO
"Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it makes me wonder
……….
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
And it makes me wonder"
~ Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)naturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercoloradotelluride
Set your soul on fire and free...
"Be fearless in the pursuit of your dreams; do not hesitate to chase after the things that set your soul on fire."
~ UnknownCI1853Bald EagleRocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife RefugeCOnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercolorado
Fairy Falls, Columbia River Gorge, OR
"I keep my gratitude in my smile
A glistening waterfall in the sun
Gently splashing at that person
Who made me happy for some reason."
~ Sanober Khan
Express your Love!... Power of Love
“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”
~ Steve Marabolibald eaglescoloradocolorado photographycolorado photographerbirds photography
Little more music, little more poetry, and little more dance...
“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
~ Osho
Dance when you're perfectly free...
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
~ Rumi
Remember the time...
“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
~ Martha Graham
High Sierra - Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, Lone Pine, CA
"Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn."
~ Anatoli Boukreevmountwhitneylonepinepeaksierranevadasierracrestmountainphotographysunrisephotographycaliforanialonepinebishoppanoramaphotographyamericancordillera
Rocky Mountain Fog - Slope of Mt. Evans Wilderness
"Let us go in; the fog is rising."
~ Emily Dickinson
Tranquility - Gorton Creek, Cascade Locks, OR
"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility."
~Swami Sivanandanaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Lord of the Jungle ~ Kanha National Park, India (Protection Status: Endangered)
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
~ Mahatma GandhiIND0915Photographernaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercoloradotigerindia
Moon Rise
"The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another, but they are so distant, so very far apart, that they cannot feel the warmth of each other, even though they are made of burning."
~Beth Revis, Across the Universe
Golden Eagle
"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."
~ Ralph Waldo EmersonGoldenEagleGolden EaglePhotographernaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercolorado
Bisti Balanced Rocks - Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, NM.
"It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details."
~ Henri PoincarebistiwildernessnewmexicobalancedrockblackandwhitephotographynaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercoloradoAhShiSlePah
White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo, NM
"I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams..."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, NM.
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
~Harriet TubmannightphotographystarslongexposurenightskygalaxymilkywaybistidanazinwildernessfermingtonnewmexicoAhShiSlePah
Bald Eagle Ice Fishing
"Nature is man's teacher.
She unfolds her treasure to his search,
unseals his eye, illumes his mind,
and purifies his heart;
an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence."
~ Alfred Billings Streetbaldeaglenaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercolorado
Crashing Waves in Cape Kiwanda , Pacific City, OR
“this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes - Death Valley National Park, CA
"In the desert, the line between life and death is sharp and quick."
~ Brian HerbertdeathvalleymojavedesertDeathValleyNationalParkDEVAcaliforniamesquiteflatsanddunessanddunesnationalpark
Coyote - Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, CO
“This is wilderness, to walk in silence.
This is wilderness, to calm the mind.
This is wilderness, my return to composure.”
~Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National ParksCoyoteRocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife RefugeCOnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercolorado
Bald Eagle in flight
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
~ Khalil Gibranbaldeaglecoloradonaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenver
Panther Falls (Lower), Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Wind River Valley, WA
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
~ Kamand Kojouripantherfallswashingtonwaterfallsnaturegallertprintnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Canyon Flame, Antelope Canyon (Upper), AZ
"To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man."
~ Ralph Waldo EmersonAntelope Canyon UpperAZcanyonnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerdenvercolorado
Old Faithful - Yellowstone National Park,WY
"All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart."
~ John MuirOld FaithfulYellowstone National ParkWYnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Haystack Rock at Cape Kiwanda , Pacific City, OR
“Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don’t know
where I’m heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I’m skidding forward
on this track of life.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempestHaystack RockCape KiwandaPacific CityORnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Jungle Walk ~ Kanha National Park, India (Protection Status: Endangered)
"To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause within our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by the same grace."
-Terry Tempest Williamsmohammedhussainnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Fairy Falls, Columbia River Gorge, OR
"These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession."
~Claude Monetnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Eagle Flight - Antelope Canyon, AZ
"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home."
~ Ruminaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Indian Elephant ~ Kanha National Park, India.
"Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth."
~ Buddhanaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildearthphotographydenverindia
Wild Sunflower
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things.
It’s enough to drive one mad.
I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.”
~ Claude Monetnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Mount Sneffels (14,157') Reflection, San Juan Mountains Range, CO
“this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silencenaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Bald Eagle in flight
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
~ Eleanor Rooseveltnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Gateway of Light ~ Antelope Canyon, Page, AZ
"An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.”
~ Hafiznaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Stormy Mount Moran Oxbow Bend - Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
"I am am settled in the scent of sage, Mount Moran's reflection at "Oxbow Bend is more than a mirror of memories; it is the joy found in river otters, a reminder that there are places in the world we can return for peace unchanged.”
~ Terry Tempest Williamsnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Reflection of Mount Wilson (14,246') and Wilson Peak (14,017'') - Lizard Head Pass, CO
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
~ John MuirMount WilsonWilson Peaknaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Golden Eagle
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
~ John Quincy Adamsnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Eroded Spires - Mount Sneffels (14,158 feet (4,315m)) Southwest Ridge - Mount Sneffels Wilderness Area, Ouray, CO
"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
~ Henry Millernaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Turret Arch - Arches National Park, Moab, UT
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
~SenecaArches National ParkMoabUTnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Bald Eagle Ice Fishing
"On the wings of love I soared high in the sky, free as a bird feeling blessed that I could love once again. That tight knot in my stomach which always drained my emotions had suddenly disappeared. “I’m free at last ” I shouted with unbridled glee.”
~ Latika Teotianaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
The Totem Pole and Ye Bei Chi rocks, Monument Valley Tribal Park, AZ
"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."
~ Vincent Van Goghmonument valleyarizonadesertsmonumentvalleynavajo tribal parknaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
Iris
"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things."
~Ansel Adamsnaturephotographerwildlifephotographerwildernessphotographerwildearthphotographydenvercolorado
