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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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Field Edition

Every print in this edition starts at $175

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.

Abundance of Life

St Andrews Bay • South Georgia Island

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.

Another Day in Paradise

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

Arctic Assassin

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

Aspen Cathedral

Kebler Pass • Colorado

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.

Attack Formation

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

Background Noise

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

Orcas swimming through a herring bait ball under surface light in the Tromsø fjords, Norway.

Carousel of Shadows

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

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

Chasing Daylight

Image Lake • Glacier Peak Wilderness

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.

Colonization

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

Dream of You

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

Peyto Lake at sunrise from the overlook above it, Banff National Park, Alberta, with warm light on the far peaks and the turquoise basin still in shade.

Early Morning Blues

Heceta Head Lighthouse shining from a forested headland above the Pacific, with fog moving in under a pink sunrise sky and a curving beach and rocky point in the foreground.

Ever Vigilant

A vivid rainbow coming down into the green hills above Hanalei Bay on Kauai, with rain falling in the valley under dark storm cloud and the pastures below lit by morning sun.

Evidence of Things Unseen

A thin crescent moon above layered, silhouetted mountain ridges at dawn, with an orange glow along the horizon and dark spruce tops in the foreground.

Goodnight Moon

Fireweed and yellow wildflowers in a subalpine meadow with stunted firs and bleached snags, looking toward rugged peaks and a valley filled with glowing sunrise smoke in Glacier National Park.

Heaven in Hiding

A humpback whale mother and calf swimming away from the camera through bright blue water, with light rays from the surface catching the mother's tail flukes.

Into the Blue

A large tree-topped sea stack and a line of smaller stacks silhouetted in deep blue twilight at Second Beach, Washington, with the moon above and the big stack mirrored in the wet sand.

Kings and Pawns

A tree-topped sea stack at Second Beach, Washington, mirrored in the wet sand at low tide, with a sky of scattered white clouds reflected around it.

Leave It All Behind

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

Let's Play

Dominica • Caribbean

A red tent dug into deep snow on the rim of Crater Lake, Oregon, with Wizard Island and the caldera behind in evening light.

Life in a Way

Crater Lake National Park • Oregon

First light on the summit of Mount Rainier above a subalpine meadow of purple lupine, magenta paintbrush and western pasqueflower seedheads, framed by subalpine fir on Mazama Ridge.

Moment We Come Alive

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.

Perp Walk

A wave curling over in green water at Secret Beach, Kauai, with foam washing up the sand toward a tree-covered point and warm sunset light breaking through heavy clouds.

Relentless

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

Shadows Drift

Wizard Island in a calm, snow-rimmed Crater Lake at dawn, with snowdrifts and mountain hemlocks in the foreground and a pink and lavender sky over the far rim.

Shadows Melt

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.

Shine Down

A tall sea stack topped by a single small tree, silhouetted against a sunset sky of peach and gold clouds, with surf washing around its base on Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park.

Skies Will Burn

Rialto Beach • Olympic National Park

A waterfall dropping into a turquoise pool in a narrow gorge, with a spruce on the canyon lip.

Steadfast

Backcountry • Canada

Horsetail Fall on El Capitan glowing orange at sunset in Yosemite Valley, a thin ribbon of water against dark granite under a clear evening sky.

The Firefall

Yosemite Valley • Yosemite National Park

The tunnel-shaped chamber of the Subway in Zion, with an emerald pool at the back and yellow maple leaves resting on wet red rock in the foreground.

The Journey Begins

The Subway • Zion National Park

A vertical view of an aspen grove with straight white trunks and bright yellow leaves lit from the side, a few trees still green at right, and young spruce in the undergrowth on Kebler Pass, Colorado.

Traces of Autumn

Kebler Pass • Colorado

Ke'e Beach on Kauai at sunrise, with the green Na Pali cliffs on the left, sunlit clouds along the horizon, and calm, clear shallow water reflecting the warm sky.

Until the Oceans Are Shallow

A small tree in yellow fall leaves growing alone from a hollow in a sculpted sandstone wall high above the Virgin River in the Narrows of Zion, the rock glowing red and purple in reflected light.

Wonderwall

The Narrows • Zion National Park

Gold Harbour • South Georgia Island

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

St Andrews Bay • South Georgia Island

Salisbury Plain • South Georgia Island

Peyto Lake • Banff National Park

Heceta Head • Oregon Coast

Hanalei • Kauai, Hawaii

Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park • British Columbia

Logan Pass • Glacier National Park

Silver Bank • Dominican Republic

Second Beach • Olympic Coast, Washington

Second Beach • Olympic Coast, Washington

Mazama Ridge • Mount Rainier National Park

Right Whale Bay • South Georgia Island

Secret Beach • Kauai, Hawaii

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

Crater Lake National Park • Oregon

Na Pali Coast • Kauai, Hawaii

Ke'e Beach • Kauai, Hawaii