Natural Wallpaper

Dog Canyon, Texas

This photo gallery features high dynamic range (HDR) photos—images that have a large exposure range, allowing for deeper contrast and detai...

Maya Tomb, Honduras

Anticipation is a skill that all great photographers draw on when searching for the right moment to press the shutter. While shooting this ...

Te Waikoropupu Springs, New Zealand

Te Waikoropupu Springs are the largest freshwater springs in New Zealand and the largest cold-water springs in the Southern Hemisphere. A...

Serra da Bodoquena, Brazil

A few months ago, Roggo visited the  Pantanal  (pictured) in Brazil to photograph the springs, creeks, and rivers that flow through the w...

African Snake

Fire-wheel tree

The firewheel tree takes its name from the configuration and color of the inflorescences in which the small flowers have a wheel-like arra...

Arisaema, Jack in the Pulpit

The Jack-in-the-Pulpit is a familiar spring wildflower in most of eastern North America. The bract of this plant is enlarged into the spath...

Angelonia, Summer Snapdragon (Angelonia angustifolia)

Summer snapdragon is native to Mexico, Guatemala and Cuba. It is widely cultivated and naturalized in neotropics, native range obscure. ...

Angel wing Begonia (Begonia coccinea)

Begonia coccinea  is a species begonia native to Brazil. Plant has thick, leathery, solid bright-green leaves with a soft sheen and bright ...

Picture of flowers of the African Violet

Saintpaulia , commonly known as African violet , is a genus of 6 species of herbaceous perennial flowering plants in the family Gesneriacea...

Africa daisy

Africa daisy  grows to about a foot high, with coarse aromatic leaves, topped in summer by large daisies in shades of yellow, orange, salmo...

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Beach Tropical Wallpaper

Sydney Before Earth Hour

Lights from Sydney, Australia's many buildings paint the harbor two days before Earth Hour 2013, which took place on March 23. The ...

Going Green

In Madrid, plants turn a wall in the Paseo del Prada bright green. Green walls are particularly useful in reducing pollution in street ...

Green Gold

A vertical garden (pictured) won the gold medal in the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show in London. Each year Green Roofs for Healthy Cities iss...

Against the Wall

The ability of green walls, such as this one at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, to cool street canyons is especially key in the summer...

Living Wall

A living wall bursts with vegetation at Paris's Musée du Quai Branly—a type of green wall that's catching on in some big cities. ...

A gold-plated seated Buddha

Brent Huffman, a documentary filmmaker and assistant professor at the  Medill School of Journalism  at Northwestern University, is cur...

Promote Colorful Message of Tolerance

In Pakistan, rickshaws are a major form of transportation in both densely populated urban and rural areas. Often a colorful blur as th...

Ice in the Light

Ice on my Brothers truck in the Night with a Reflection of the Light on it

My Shot: Best of 2013

Hot sunny day = water slide time!

Birds Sweethearts

Macaws typically mate for life. They not only breed with, but also share food with their mates and enjoy mutual grooming.

Puffin, Shiant Islands

Dapper black-and-white razorbills (at right) and bright-beaked puffins (at left and in air, at center) find a haven on the Shiant Island...

King Penguins

Strikingly colored, an adult king penguin stands out in a sea of chicks on South Georgia Island.

Cottonmouth, North Carolina

While working as a field researcher for a biodiversity study on pine plantations in North Carolina, I found this  Agkistrodon piscivorus...

Kermode Bear in Tree, British Columbia

A mother of two cubs climbs a Pacific crab apple tree to grab its tart and tiny fruit. In years when autumn salmon numbers are low, the ...

Coyote, Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA I was taking photos with a colleague when we spotted a coyote on the move. As the coyote w...

Gray Wolf, Washington

A gray wolf rests at Wolf Haven International, a wolf sanctuary in Washington State.

Tigers, India

Meet Smasher—the male in the background. That's the name Steve Winter gave this youngster, cooling off in a watering hole in Bandh...

Delaware, at Last

Du Pont descendants still live in the 1923 Granogue mansion, one of many grand estates that have preserved a lush natural corridor along...