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LUKE TINGLEY

THE PURSUIT BEGINS

Limited-edition wilderness photography.

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THE PURSUIT BEGINS

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Six rooms. The pictures live here. The notes live in the journal.

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High Country

Above the trees. Rock, snow, and thin air.

White aspen trunks and gold autumn leaves blurred into vertical bands of yellow and white, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

Peyto Lake under fresh snow from the viewpoint above it, Banff National Park, Alberta, with light breaking over the turquoise water.

Last light on Reynolds Mountain above the alpine pools and moss at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana.

Pink sunrise light on the blue water of Lake Tahoe beside Bonsai Rock, with snow-capped Sierra Nevada peaks across the lake.

The Ten Peaks catching first light above the turquoise water of Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, with a still reflection.

Sunrise light on Sinopah Mountain reflected in the still water of Two Medicine Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, under a pink sky.

Sunset light beams down the valley over St Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, above layered rock in the foreground.

Western pasque flower seedheads in the meadow above Image Lake, with Glacier Peak under a pink twilight sky, Washington.

Sunrise over ridges from the summit of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain, Oregon, with wind-broken ice chunks scattered across the snow.

Emerald Lake Lodge and footbridge at blue hour, warm lights reflecting in still turquoise water under a forested shore, Yoho National Park.

Lowlands

Below the treeline. Forest, meadow, and water on the move.

A subalpine meadow of lupine below conifers at Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, with morning light on lifting fog.

Sol Duc Falls in Olympic National Park, Washington, seen from the footbridge, with morning light coming down through the forest.

Snow-loaded firs in heavy falling snow above Mirror Lake, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon.

Spring-fed waterfalls pouring through moss down a cliff face into the Sacramento River at Mossbrae Falls, California.

Old growth trunks receding into thick fog on the slope below Devil's Dream, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.

Low sunrise light rakes across a dense wall of subalpine conifers above a calm mountain lake, with snow still in the shaded timber behind.

Beckwith Mountain at twilight, fall aspens in the foreground and a crescent moon above the peaks.

Dense stand of white aspen trunks under a gold-orange canopy at twilight, Kebler Pass, Colorado.

A stand of golden aspen lit by a break of sun at the edge of a grass meadow, with dark storm cloud and rain over grey peaks behind, Hillsdale Meadows, Banff National Park.

Light beams cutting through mist among mossy forest trees in Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon.

Dryfall

Canyon country. Stone, and the water that cut it.

Sunlit orange walls of a narrow slot canyon above turquoise water, a large boulder standing in the middle of the river channel.

Reflected light glowing deep in the Narrows of Zion National Park, Utah, above the Virgin River and a single cottonwood.

Sunbeam striking the sandy floor of Antelope Canyon, glowing orange sandstone walls, Arizona.

Long-exposure view up the Narrows in Zion, glowing orange sandstone walls reflecting in silky purple water, boulders and a green plant on the left bank.

Fall color in the Narrows at Zion, yellow leaves against red canyon walls and water.

cascade over red sandstone on the approach to The Subway in Zion, framed by peak-yellow cottonwoods and fallen leaves.

Sunrise through Mesa Arch with the underside glowing orange over Canyonlands, Utah.

Delicate Arch in shadow against a pink and purple sunrise sky, with the La Sal Mountains on the horizon and a sweeping bowl of red slickrock in the foreground.

A riverbank in Zion Canyon in full fall color, red maple and yellow and green trees above a sandstone ledge and a boulder at the edge of the turquoise Virgin River.

A low view from just above the Virgin River in the Narrows of Zion, with water rushing over rounded cobbles toward a large boulder and canyon walls glowing orange above.

Landfall

After the crossing. Coast, shore, and the edge of things.

Sunset light glowing on low clouds blowing through Kalalau Valley, with the green ridges of the Na Pali coast and a view down to the ocean.

Lava firehose pouring into the ocean at Kalapana, steam plume lit orange above dark water, Big Island, Hawaii.

Hanalei Bay on Kauai under broken cloud, a rainbow over the green ridges and the pier at right, calm water and a sandy beach in the foreground.

Calla lilies fill a coastal valley at sunset, with high surf on the Pacific at Big Sur, California.

Big Sable Point Lighthouse beyond dune grass at sunrise, pink and orange sky over Lake Michigan.

Calm water over a shallow reef at Ke'e Beach, Kauai, with the Na Pali cliffs and a blue and pink pre-dawn sky.

Silhouetted palms in a coastal breeze at sunrise, purple sky fading to orange over the water, Kapaa, Kauai.

An aerial view down the Na Pali coast on Kauai with green fluted ridges, a curved beach and reef, and sunbeams falling through cloud onto turquoise water.

A stream of molten lava pouring from a sea cliff into the ocean before dawn, throwing up a dark burst of debris inside clouds of red-lit steam.

An aerial view of a glowing orange seam of molten lava running between two sheets of crusted pahoehoe, one smooth and silvery, the other ropy and dark, the cooled crust a dark blue-gray.

The Fathoms

Below the surface. Their world, on their terms.

An orca mother and two calves in dark green water, with low arctic light filtering down from the surface, northern Norway.

A humpback whale calf swimming near the surface in clear blue water at Silver Bank, Dominican Republic, with sun rays and a long white pectoral fin extended.

An orca swimming close to the camera in bright blue water just below the surface, herring scattered through the frame, northern Norway fjords.

A single orca in deep blue water below a golden storm-lit surface, northern Norway, with light rays coming down.

A pod of spinner dolphins in formation just below the surface off the Kona coast, Hawaii, with light rays in blue water.

An orca moving through a dense school of herring in shallow water, northern Norway, with surface light above.

Three spinner dolphins in silhouette diving at an angle through vivid blue open water, lit softly from the surface above.

A bull orca stalking a herring bait ball in shallow blue water near Tromsø, Norway, with surface light above and the rocky bottom below.

A solitary bottlenose dolphin rolled over facing the camera with a clump of sargassum on her rostrum, Dominica.

Over-under view of a rainbow above Silver Bank and a humpback mother and calf below in blue water with light rays.

Polar

The high latitudes. Ice as a place, not a season.

A small group of king penguins standing together on snow at Right Whale Bay, South Georgia.

A line of gentoo penguins climbing a steep snow slope in blowing snow on Danko Island, Antarctica, with brash ice and dark water behind them.

A wave breaking along a beach at Gold Harbour, South Georgia, with elephant seals hauled out behind it and a long line of king penguins on the rise above, all seen through falling snow.

A group of gentoo penguins porpoising through choppy grey water, two of them clear of the surface mid-leap, off St Andrews Bay, South Georgia.

King penguins walking single file along a dark sand beach between stranded blocks of ice, with a row of elephant seals behind them and a vast colony of adult and brown-chick king penguins rising toward snowy hills.

A large rounded iceberg floating in dark open water, with a small group of gentoo penguins standing along its ridges and climbing its sides, and a glaciated coastline behind under gray cloud.

Five king penguins walking single file along a gravel beach past a bull elephant seal roaring with its mouth open, with another seal resting behind them and brown hills across the bay.

A vast king penguin colony spread across the meltwater channels and grassy flats of Salisbury Plain, seen from a tussock slope above, with an expedition ship anchored in the bay beyond under gray cloud.