Peace in RanthamboreLangur monkey mom with her infant in Ranthambore National Park. This famous national park of India is filled with wildlife, but one of the main attractions is the chance to encounter one of the scattering of wild tigers residing in the area.

The town of Julian is a mountain retreat at about 4500 feet/1500 meters above the Pacific Coast and inland from the sea about 60 miles/100km

Ferns are an iconic and historic New Zealand element and native Maori peoples found numerous uses for them in daily life

are of Hindu and Jain significance and are known for their intricate details

Extreme disparity in altitude

in magnificence and even in mediocrity

A lotus blossom nears the end of its seasonal existence and begins its collapse into back into the lake from which it arose

not only Arizona

Independence Monument is one of a thousand features in Colorado National Monument

much of it in shapely sandstone

Imaged here

leap or crawl throughout melding and coexisting biospheres

Fishhook barrel cactus is so called because of the long curved spines