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LUKE TINGLEY

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

Aspen Dreams

San Juan Mountains • Colorado

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

Pastel Shores

Bonsai Rock • Lake Tahoe, Nevada

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.

A Better Life Is Waiting

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.

A Lifetime Burning

The Narrows • Zion National Park

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

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

All the Words

The Narrows • Zion National Park

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

Archangel Falls in Zion in fall, silky water over red sandstone shelves, yellow leaves and a cliff wall beyond.

Archangel Falls

Archangel Falls • Zion National Park

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

Orca swimming through deep blue-green water with light filtering from above, Tromsø fjords.

Arctic Whisper

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

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

Art of Dreaming

Kapaa • Kauai, Hawaii

Tree-topped sea stack at Second Beach on the Olympic Coast at sunset, wet sand and long-exposure water under a glowing horizon.

As the Music Fades

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.

Ashes of Eden

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

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

Autumn Dreams

Left Fork • Zion National Park

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

Away from It All

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

Background Noise

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

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

Ballad of the Nameless

Silver Bank • Dominican Republic

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

Blueprint for Living

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

Blush

Big Sable Point Lighthouse • Ludington, Michigan

Snow-capped Mt. Sneffels above gold and green aspens with low mist, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

Breath of Heaven

Mt. Sneffels Wilderness • Colorado

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

Burning Bright

Antelope Canyon • Arizona

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

Carousel of Shadows

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

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.

Castaways

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

Cataclysm

Kalapana • Big Island, Hawaii

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

Catch Fire

Mesa Arch • Canyonlands National Park

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

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.

Choosing Sides

Kilauea • Big Island, Hawaii

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

Vertical view of Big Sable Point Lighthouse, small in the dune grass, pink and blue dawn sky filling the frame.

Cotton Candy Skies

Big Sable Point Lighthouse • Ludington, Michigan

Bearhat Mountain in sunrise light, reflected in Hidden Lake, from the overlook.

Crown of the Continent

Hidden Lake • Glacier National Park

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.

Delicate

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

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

Endless Winter

Tom Dick and Harry Mountain • Oregon

Mount Assiniboine at sunrise above Sunburst Lake with golden larches, Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia.

Entertaining Angels

Sunburst Lake • Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park

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

Evening Symphony

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 tall plume of volcanic gas glowing red above the lava lake in Kilauea's summit crater, rising into a purple night sky scattered with stars.

Everglow

Kilauea • Big Island, Hawaii

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

Fell Into a Dream

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

Fire and Ice

The Narrows • Zion National Park

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

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

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

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 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.

Imagine Dragons

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.

In Defense of Dreams

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 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.

It Will Rain

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.

Kaleidoscope

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

Capitol Peak lit pink at sunset above a dark timbered valley, with a cloud overhead catching the same light and hillsides of yellow and green aspen in the foreground, Colorado.

Legends of the Fall

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

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

Lullaby

Two Medicine Lake • Glacier National Park

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

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

Moments Like These

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

Mystery of You

Three Sisters Wilderness • Oregon

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

One Breath Away

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 rainbow over the headwall above Grinnell Lake, turquoise water in the foreground and spruce along the near shore.

Promise

Grinnell Lake • Glacier National Park

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

Ran Out of Reasons

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 meadow of yellow golden banner wildflowers in Moraine Park under an orange and magenta sunset sky, with a rain shaft falling behind dark peaks in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Reveries

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

Sanctuary

Wonderland Trail • Mount Rainier National Park

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

Shades of Blue

Kona Coast • Big Island, Hawaii

Two orcas swimming through dark blue water with surface light above, Tromsø fjords.

Shadow Dancer

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

Emerald Lake Lodge and the footbridge, with last light on Walcott Peak and Mount Burgess reflected in the lake.

Shadow of the Day

Emerald Lake • Yoho National Park

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

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.

Shatter Me

The Narrows • Zion National Park

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

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

Smolder

Kebler Pass • Colorado

A short waterfall in a mossy grotto, the creek cascading over rocks in the foreground.

Somewhere in Between

Backcountry • Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

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

Sound of Silence

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

Stacked Actors

Kona Coast • Big Island, Hawaii

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

Steadfast

Backcountry • Canada

Beargrass plumes lit by sunset rays in a subalpine meadow of lupine and pink mountain heather at Paradise, with Mount Rainier in cloud and shadow beyond a ridge of subalpine fir.

Tears of the Sun

An orca surfacing in a gray Norwegian fjord, its blow rising beside a rainbow that drops toward the water under soft storm light, with dark headlands behind.

Tell Me a Fable

A lit tent on granite above Upper Cathedral Lake, Cathedral Peak reflected in the water under a starry sky.

Tell Me a Story

Upper Cathedral Lake • Yosemite National Park

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.

The Climb

Danko Island • Antarctica

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

The Kings of South Georgia

Right Whale Bay • South Georgia Island

A double rainbow arcing over green ironwood trees at Ke'e Beach, Kauai, with black lava boulders on golden sand lit by low evening sun.

The Remedy

Ke'e Beach • Kauai, Hawaii

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

The Truth Remains

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

The Worlds We Discovered

A tall view of yellow golden banner wildflowers and lichen-covered rocks in a meadow, a bare dead snag, dark forest, and snowy Longs Peak under a churning pink and purple storm cloud.

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

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

Triptych

Valley of the Ten Peaks

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

We Might Fall

Sol Duc Falls • Olympic National Park

Half Dome at blue hour from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California, lit by moonlight with stars coming out.

When Legends Rise

A dense stand of aspen in full yellow fall color with white trunks, photographed in soft light after sunset on Kebler Pass, Colorado.

Wildfire

Kebler Pass • Colorado

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

Hanalei Bay • Kauai, Hawaii

St Andrews Bay • South Georgia Island

Gold Harbour • South Georgia Island

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

Second Beach • Olympic Coast, Washington

Kalalau Lookout • Kauai, Hawaii

St Andrews Bay • South Georgia Island

Emerald Lake • Yoho National Park

Ke'e Beach • Kauai, Hawaii

South Shetland Islands • Antarctica

Salisbury Plain • South Georgia Island

Delicate Arch • Arches National Park

Peyto Lake • Banff National Park

St Mary Lake • Glacier National Park

Heceta Head • Oregon Coast

Hanalei • Kauai, Hawaii

Backcountry • Mount Rainier National Park

Fire to a World So Cold

Tom Dick and Harry Mountain • Oregon

Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park • British Columbia

Hearts of the Innocent

Big Sur • California

Logan Pass • Glacier National Park

Kalapana • Big Island, Hawaii

Silver Bank • Dominican Republic

Silver Bank • Dominican Republic

Hillsdale Meadows • Banff National Park

Virgin River • Zion National Park

Second Beach • Olympic Coast, Washington

Second Beach • Olympic Coast, Washington

Capitol Peak • Colorado

Mazama Ridge • Mount Rainier National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park • Colorado

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

Right Whale Bay • South Georgia Island

Mossbrae Falls • California

Secret Beach • Kauai, Hawaii

Moraine Park • Rocky Mountain National Park

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

Crater Lake National Park • Oregon

Na Pali Coast • Kauai, Hawaii

Peyto Lake • Banff National Park

Paradise • Mount Rainier National Park

Tromsø Fjords • Norway

The Narrows • Zion National Park

Logan Pass • Glacier National Park

Things Left Unsaid

Moraine Park • Rocky Mountain National Park

Ke'e Beach • Kauai, Hawaii

Moraine Lake • Banff National Park

Glacier Point • Yosemite National Park