Upper Yosemite Falls and Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California.
iPhone 16 Pro Max infrared image using an external R72 infrared filter.
The main village of the native people of Yosemite Valley, the Ahwahneechee, was located at the base of the falls.

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.
Infrared iPhone XS Max infrared image using an external R72 infrared filter.
Crater Lake was formed around 7,700 years ago by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. With a depth of 1,949 feet, the lake is the deepest in the United States.

Cottonwood Mountains, Death Valley National Park, California This view is from the Mesquite Dunes area of the park.

Badwater Basin, Death Valley. National Park, California
On Aug. 20, 2023, heavy rain from Hurricane Hilary led to the pooling of water in Badwater Basin, where Lake Manly, an ancient lake that once was filled with water up to 700 feet deep during the Ice Ages was temporarily restored.

Big Morongo Canyon, Morongo Valley, California.
iPhone 16 Pro Max image using an external R72 infrared filter.
The Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is a 31,000-acre preserve located in the transition zone between the higher Mojave Desert and lower elevation Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert.

El Capitan and the Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California.
iPhone 16 Pro MAX image
El Capitan is the exposed root of a massive igneous intrusion from the Sierra Nevada Batholith solidified deep within the Earth approximately 100 million years ago, later exposed and sculpted by glaciers.

Wow, Rain… These just get better and better! Whew!

Really nice, Michael… This could not be improved in any way….

Point Lobos, State Natural Reserve, California

Point Lobos is just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California at the north end of the Big Sur coast.

Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

Really nice, Mike....

It's getting close to Halloween, so I'll share a creepy mushroom photo I took in my neighborhood...
Makes you think, eh?

Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

Water Holes Canyon, Arizona
Another favorite shot from my 2015 visit…

Water Holes Canyon, Arizona

Really nice, Armand... This could not be improved in any way...

Very nice, Paul….Bravo!

Eye of the Sun
The "Eye of the Sun," is a natural rock arch in Monument Valley, Arizona, accessible only by guided Navajo tours into the backcountry of the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

That’s GREAT!

Coulter Bay, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
Coulter Bay is on the Eastern shore of Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson Lake is one of the largest high-altitude lakes in the United States, at an elevation of 6,772 ft above sea level.

Stevens Creek, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
iPhone 7 Plus image
Mount Rainier National Park was established on March 2, 1899, as the fourth national park in the United States, preserving 236,381 acres including all of Mount Rainier, a 14,410-foot stratovolcano.

Sahalie Falls
Sahalie Falls (meaning "Heaven" in Chinook) is a plunging waterfall of the McKenzie River in Linn County, Oregon, located alongside Oregon Route 126, 34 miles west of the city of Sisters.
The waterfall consists of a 73-foot (22 m) plunge, with year-round waterflow rates of 560 cu ft/s.

Devils Churn
Devils Churn is a narrow inlet south of Yachats, Oregon,
Over many thousands of years, wave action carved into the basalt shoreline, forming a cave whose roof eventually collapsed. The tide can throw spray hundreds of feet into the air when the waves reach the end of the churn.

Hood River morning
Hood River, Oregon is a port on the Columbia River, and is named for the nearby Hood River. Hood River (originally called Dog River) was incorporated in 1895. It is the only city in Oregon where public consumption of alcohol on sidewalks or parks is completely unrestricted.

Mount Hood, also known as Wy'east, is considered the Oregon volcano most likely to erupt. Odds of an eruption in the next 30 years are estimated at 3 to 7%, so the U.S. Geological Survey characterizes it as "potentially active", but the mountain is informally considered dormant.

Bob Creek Wayside, Florence, Oregon
iPhone 6+ image 60 second exposure using Average Cameras Pro app

Bob Creek Wayside is about 10 minutes south of Yachats, within Neptune State Park and the Cape Perpetua Marine Reserve.

Pacific Ocean Southview Overlook, near Florence Oregon
Infrared iPhone XS MAX image using an external R72 IR filter.

My 2017 experience was WONDERFUL... I was at Smith Rock State Park in Oregon for that one... Live changing! Immediately started planning for 2024.... Sigh...

Heh... I don't use mine much either... I had planned for years for the 2024 eclipse, but got skunked by weather.... Sigh....

I read that there is a lot of sunspot activity at the moment, so I went out with my Canon Superzoom and a solar filter, and took some shots...
Yup... The spots are definitely active!