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Every surfer knows this moment. You've waxed the board, zipped the wetsuit, and waded into the shallows — and then, just before you commit, you stop. You stand there in...

There's a small mountain town somewhere up north — never mind exactly where — where the locals will tell you a particular kind of story if you stick around the...

Some photographs ask for color. Others ask you to take it away. When we photographed this Gila woodpecker feeding at a spent cactus bloom, the original frame had all the...

There's a stretch of hillside in Carlsbad, California — fifty acres of it, give or take — where every year between March and May, seventy million flowers open at once....

Most people picture sunflowers the way Van Gogh painted them — heavy-headed, six feet tall, leaning over a garden fence with the kind of gravity that seems to bend the...

A Light on the Water: A Star of India Christmas Somewhere on the deck of an iron-hulled tall ship in San Diego Harbor, a brass lantern catches the last of...

Every Christmas Eve, in a small town somewhere in America, a kid presses his face to a cold window and waits. He's listening — for sleigh bells, for footsteps on...

Without the Color: Why Black and White Still Matters Color photography has been the default for so long that we forget it was once the exception. For the first hundred...

There's a certain kind of light that only happens at a Southwest car show — late afternoon, the sun dropping low, palm trees throwing long shadows across acres of polished...

There are moments in nature that feel almost too perfect to be real—fleeting, precise, and full of quiet energy. One of those moments unfolds in the desert when a hummingbird...

There are car emblems, and then there is the emblem. Four feet wide, wings outstretched across the hood of a Pontiac Trans Am, rendered in gold leaf on deep black...

There are faces in the wild that stop you cold — not because they're beautiful in any conventional sense, but because they carry something older than beauty. The griffon vulture...