sun setting above the clouds near hawaii

abstract shot of dichrolam film in bright sunlight

close-up shot of the plentiful blooms on a Rainbow Shower tree in Hawaii

JiuZhaiGou, China

evening sun peeking through the sides of a Banyan tree forest immersed in a picturesque swampland

Wind blowing across the desert is dropping in ultra-fine sand like a constant dry rain. It is gently piling up everywhere on us and our equipment, but when the sun reaches its highest point, the light illuminates the raining sand and produces these shafts of light.

Sunset over ocean at Wailea, Maui

a super closeup of an ant's head showing a portion of it's face along with half of it's lateral eye. visually, the entire head appeared a stealthy black, but the photography lighting caused the eye to glow a dark red which made for some interesting contrast. each of the micro-lenses on the compound eye, measure 0.00074 inches in diameter (1,350 of them would make inch). another interesting effect is how the translucent hairs acted like lenses and focused our lighting into little hotspots on the scaly surface.