Our friends at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are currently running a fan favorite photo contest on their Facebook page. This photo of Aster Lake by Scott Toste is one of the favorites. To vote, click here.
Some images are just plain extraordinary — and often, the photographer has invested a great deal of time and effort to make that image happen. Photographer Dave Morrow describes the process of making this image from Mount Rainier National Park in early October 2012:
“I went up to Sunrise Point at Mt. Rainier last weekend with my buddy Keith. After a lame sunset, we waited for the Milky Way to come out. The placement was just perfect & the sky was pitch black! Time to jack up the ISO and shoot some stars… This was one of many from the night:)”
Visit Rainier on a beautiful day, and you’ll get a great photograph. Stick around for the sunset, and you’ll often get an exceptional photograph. Wait till the chill of October sets in on a clear night, and stand around fiddling with your camera for a few hours in the dark… and the results just might be extraordinary.
Photo by Dave Morrow - www.DaveMorrowPhotography.com
The Lake Clark National Park and Preserve recently held a photo contest on their Facebook page. Congratulations to Kevin Kifer and his winning photograph above! You can see the full list of entries here.
Earlier this year, the Royal Gorge Recreation Area staff had a photo contest on their Facebook page and here is one of the great photos that was submitted. Here’s what photographer, Shannon Diszmang, had to say about it.
“This is BLM land in Northwest Colorado (Little Snake River district). I fell in love with this place. The red haze in this photo is the smoke coming from the wildfires on the west coast at the time. This is one of the lowest light pollution spots in our state which makes star gazing the absolute best.”
A spectator takes in the awesome display of the ocean’s power at Thunderhole in Acadia National Park in Maine.
Photo: Michael Rickard
What better way to start off a new week than with a really cool shot of an eastern screech owl? You can see them on many National Wildlife Refuges. Click here to find one close to you!
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
A large herd of elk (mixed bulls and cows) enjoys a sunny afternoon in a meadow at Two Dog Flats in Glacier National Park. Singleshot Mountain towers over the landscape.
Photo: National Park Service
Check out this cool photo contest from our friends at the Bureau of Land Management and the Sierra Club in honor of Veterans Day. Be sure to reblog this post and help spread the word!
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As part of our continued commitment to serving the members of our nation’s Armed Forces, we’re joining with the Sierra Club Mission Outdoors program for our first annual Veterans Day Essay and Photo Contest. This contest, centered on the theme “What My Public Lands Mean to Me,” encourages veterans, active-duty military, and their families to submit photos, essays and video about their experiences and memories of time spent outside on America’s public lands. http://mypubliclands.challenge.gov
We got a lot of positive feedback on our aerial photo of the Washington Monument, so we thought we’d post another one. Here’s a cool shot of the Jefferson Memorial from above.
Photo: Diana Bowen, NPS
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