a single blade of grass supporting 3 drops of rain

The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco is a fantastic setting for many great images. I saw these two swans swimming about and set up on the nearby shoreline. As with most animals, you really must do a lot of waiting for the right moment (unless you are lucky enough to come across one that responds to verbal instruction). There were many fair shots, but each time something was not quite right, so I very patiently waited, slowly panning the camera to track their movement and making adjustments along the way. In as little as a half hour, there was finally a moment when they both stopped eating seaweed and faced each other just long enough for me to complete my work.

when a large mass of lava cools very slowly, it can create column-like fissures during it's cooling. then, over the years, water and ice push the columns apart and the outer pillars topple giving you a scene like this one. there's only a handful of places on earth where conditions were just right for these strange rock formations to form.

this was captured at the International Rose Test Gardens in Oregon where they have thousands of well cared for roses.

close-up shot of Niagara Falls (Canadian side)

It's been raining most of the day and it's paying off by making this typically smaller waterfall much more voluminous.

i'm keeping my distance and using my longest lens as this female hunter is sizing up lunch.

coming down off the mountain just in time to witness the sun setting and the nearby cloud-line lighting up in pink.