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Scenes.

These are my favorite moments taken from travels around the world over the past decade. I love to try and capture the feel of a place in time, and these are the photos that, for me, evoke that trip or that moment in time most vividly.

The Milky Way is visible rising from the tree-lined horizon into the dark of the night sky, a clear band of almost infinite stars dense in the sky. A faint green sheen overlays the photo, which is a unique phenomenon called skyglow, visible after dark in only the least light polluted skies on earth.
Fluffy clouds are lit by lightning flashes in front of a deep blue sky filled with stars
Elaborately twisted storm clouds tower the city skyline, which is set to the right of the image seemingly rising from the choppy waters of Lake Michigan. The city is lit brightly, as the dark clouds of a storm blow away to reveal a sunny day. To the left of the image, a bright rainbow shines.
The image is the view from an overlook, showing a shallow bowl-shaped canyon filled with verdant green tall grasses and shrubs, which is strewn with rock formations that roll up from the land almost like sand dunes. .
The sky is filled with orange and pink tones, blending smoothly into the gentle waves of Lake Michigan where water meets sky. To the left of the image, the silouhette of a couple walking into the sunrise along the sharp lines of the concrete revetments that line the lakeshore.
The almost infinte stars that form the bands of the milky way galaxy swirl in the night sky over a mountainous horizon
Looking across a vast scene where the desert floor stretches into the distance before rising into rocky mountains. The flat desert is a rich green, punctured by many tall, spiky joshua trees and countless other plants and bushes.
A photograph of the silhouette of a large wind turbine against a dark blue sky speckled with stars emerging as the brilliant red and yellow sunset disappears over the horizon to the right.
Two people lean against the side of the massive, silvery metal Gateway Arch as it towers into the blue sky
The large stone walls of Endinburgh Castle on top of the mossy green and tan stone of Castle Rock, under a blue sky.
People milling around Plaza de San Francisco on a rainy day, the deep gray cement of the square shiny with rainwater. In the background, brightly colored buildings line a street.
Looking down a black highway with bold yellow and white striped lines, running into the distance where it seems to meet a large, sharp, rock formation that looks like mountains on the horizon. The sky is light blue with a mass of fluffy white and light grey clouds.
Looking up a huge tower of the Manhattan Bridge, from the backseat of a car through the front window, with its steel girders crisscrossing into the air and huge steel cables running to their peaks.
Three men fishing on the shores of Lake Michigan, their forms silhouetted against the lake gradually changing colors from blue, to yellow, to deep orange as it approaches the horizon, where the sun is rising.
A group of swallows darting in many directions over a deep blue irrigation canal, reflecting hazy white clouds in the sky. Mountains can be seen in the distance.
A black and white photo of a massive rocky plateau with three tiny deer grazing on top. The plateau fills the left side of the image, and in the right side, a single tree is silhouetted against the skyline.
The full moon at a total eclipse shines a dull orange in the sky surrounded by stars.
A deep orange and yellow sunset highlights a deep blue sea. Surfers are riding the last waves of the day.
The billions of stars of the Milky Way sparkle in a line across the dark sky, pointing toward grean leafy tree at the bottom of the frame, lit softly by nearby lights
The billions of stars of the Milky Way sparkle in a line across the dark sky, pointing toward grean leafy tree at the bottom of the frame, lit softly by nearby lights
A winding desert road curves in an S shape through sandy desert, surrounded by joshua trees, with a large rocky hill on the near horizon
The deep brown stone facade of a neatly angular house is contrasted by the bright green of its yard, while a small group of people stand and examine its features.
A small creek runs rapidly through eroded, layered, brownish-gray rock with trees above, just starting to fill in with bright green leaves in the springtime
A car sweeps around a corner as a road descends a grassy, deep green mountainside, with the rest of the island of Maui and a large bay feature in the distance
A massive Roman aqueduct bathed in golden evening light, showing its massive stone blocks that form two stacked sets of tall arches comprising its height. People can be seen walking around its base, and climing wide stairs that run parallel to it, made to look tiny by comparison.
A view showing the large yellow plaster archway that opens to the bright orange painted buildings lining Plaza Mayor in central Madrid
A white and silver open-wheeled race car turning into a corner on a race track, leaning just slightly under the strain of its turn.
Three men on small kayaks are padding down a river, while behind them the white painted river wall and colorful tile-roofed buildings of Triana, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Sevilla, Spain.
A man in a bucket lift hangs lights as they cascade down around him in a cone shape of different strings of tiny lights
Skyscrapers in downtown Chicago viewed from several miles away silouetted against fluffy purple and blue clouds.
The second floor of the Eiffel Tower, where many tiny people are visible peering over the side
A view from underneath the Space Needle in Seattle, showing its perfectly round flying-saucer upper deck high above the air against a dark blue sky as first light breaks

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