by Madeleine Calaido Weber

Rossbeigh Beach is one of the most beautiful Beaches of Iveragh Peninsula, Ireland. I was lucky enough to capture this massiv storm cloud during a wonderful pink sunset.
canon 1Ds Mark III / EF 16-35mm @ 16 mm / f 22 / 30s

Equipment: canon 1Ds Mark III / EF 16-35mm @ 16 mm

Madeleine Calaido Weber

I am fascinated and deeply touched by nature. Nature is my best friend and my home. I dedicate my life to the beauty, harmony and peace of it. I am an observer of the ever-changing relationships between light, shapes and movements, those endless circles of enfolding and overlapping.

by Marc Adamus

Oregon’s Alvord desert, one of the most remote road-accessible places in the US, has gripped my attention for more than two decades. Steens mountain looms 6000ft. over the dry playa to the west and creates enough of a disturbance in the atmosphere to cause an abundance of lenticular waves (shown here) in winter. The region is also host to a number of other treasures worth exploring.
On the evening of December 31, 2008, myself and a couple members of the high desert preservation group ONDA caught this light show as it spread onto the lenticular formation at least 10 minutes after we thought any chance of a sunset had passed. Red saturation was barely even touched in the RAW file. It was truly incredible. The foreground is comprised of slightly raised cracks and streaks left behind by muddy water and wind.
I hesitate to name or describe this place, as for me, its most enjoyable quality is the solitude here.

Equipment: Canon 1Ds Mark III, 14mm f/2.8

Marc Adamus

I am a professional landscape photographer based in the Northwest US. My love in life is wilderness. I seek to bring my experiences to you through photography.

by Marc Adamus

In January of 2007 I made an ascent of Oregon’s Iron Mountain in very deep new snow. Near the summit, I encountered high winds and this ancient Basalt pinnacle (roughly 75m high), the remnants of a volcanic mountain’s core. I noticed some complimentary lines in the immediate foreground and decided to hunker down and see what I could shoot for half an hour or so. This capture remains one of my favorite images because of the way it describes the scene and puts the viewer out in the elements.
The blowing snow detail works better when seen larger, but hopefully you can see enough here to make it work.

Equipment: Canon 5D, Canon 16-35 f/2.8

Marc Adamus

I am a professional landscape photographer based in the Northwest US. My love in life is wilderness. I seek to bring my experiences to you through photography.

by Marc Adamus

I spent a day and a half snowshoe-backpacking to be in this beautiful alpine landscape, high in Oregon’s Three Sisters wilderness above Chambers Lakes, when the storms finally cleared. The clearing was brief but memorable. An incredible time to be so far, alone in the wild. It felt as if I was the only person to have ever seen this landscape, and in a sense, I suppose I was.

Equipment: Canon 1Ds III, 16-35 f/2.8

Marc Adamus

I am a professional landscape photographer based in the Northwest US. My love in life is wilderness. I seek to bring my experiences to you through photography.

by Kevin Aker

This was taken in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Kevin Aker

by Bob Butterfield

I was driving across the dry hot eastern Washington in early June and saw in a distance this, what I assume, is a very large set of dust devils. I tried to find a place where the phone poles were not in the way, but now I see they are useful for scale. It lasted only a few minutes so I was lucky to find a place to pull over and get a few quick shots.

Equipment: Nikon D300, 24-70mm, f2.8

Bob Butterfield

Bob Butterfield is a natural resource photographer who lives in northwest Washington.

by Dejan Stojanovic

January morning on the Danube coast. After very cold two weeks, last few days were unexpectedly warm. Snow has gone, but ice layer still stands. Above the ice surface evaporation forms one fog layer. This picture is completed by rain, which makes the third state of water…

Equipment: Fuji S6500fd

Dejan Stojanovic

ART & COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Montenegro

by Kirk Jordan

Mammatus clouds break and swirl behind the south wing of the Arkansas State Capitol Building (Little Rock, USA.) As “cold” Spring makes way for warm Spring. Mammatus clouds are sometimes considered tornado indicators, however, this storm broke into a bold blue day.
For the purists out there… I did give a minor dodge to the building, but this is virtually untouched, and shows the clouds as seen by the eye.

Equipment: Nikon D-300, 12-24 zoom

Kirk Jordan

Kirk Jordan is a photographer for the State of Arkansas.
As is, my day job involves a lot of grip and grins of persons in suits, so I relish the after-hours photo hobby when I frame Arkansas’ flora and fauna. I particularly like to take pictures of natural things in less conventional ways. I try to press beyond pure naturalism, to suggest the blending of the material and spiritual worlds.

by Casey Chinn

I caught this scene as I was driving home one evening. The setting sun was lighting up the bottoms of gathering storm clouds with a beautiful orange light, and the moon hung in the sky above.

Equipment: Canon 5D 70-200mm lens

Casey Chinn

Professional studio photographer in Colorado Springs, CO. I manage to get outside once in a while and shoot for myself.

by David Beresford

After a wet and grey afternoon the setting sun finally burst through the clouds, illuminating the hills and creating two rainbows. Roybridge, Scotland.

Equipment: Canon EOS 20D

David Beresford