Welcome
to my Fine Art Gallery. I
suggest the following of my favorite images for display in your home or
business:
Welcome
to my Fine Art Gallery. I
suggest the following of my favorite images for display in your home or
business:
Below are some of my favorite
images which I suggest as fine art
for home or office. Click any image to see more from that area:
Seascapes and Coastal Landscapes: (see
also Animals: Fish)
Above: The sun sets behind Three Arch Rocks National
Wildlife Refuge, seen from
Oceanside, Oregon, USA. (Click the image to see more
from the area.)
Left: Loutro Harbor, Crete, GREECE: An oar boat in a sea of green.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: NORWAY: The Pulpit, 1959 feet above Lysefjord (right). (Published
in
Wilderness Travel 1998, 1996, & 1988
Catalog of Adventures. "Honorable Mention, Photo Travel
Division"
in the Photographic Society of America Inter-Club Slide Competition,
May
1988.) (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below: I was fascinated by the colorful sandstone Painted Cliffs
of Maria Island National Park, eroded by the Tasman Sea, Tasmania,
AUSTRALIA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below: The 12 Apostles are a
spectacular formation of seastack
rocks
(or haystacks) on the Victoria coast, as seen below in 2003. The
50-meter
high sea stack on the left collapsed and began washing away on July 3rd
2005, leaving 8 remaining Apostles in 12 Apostles Marine National Park.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
A waterfall tumbles from cliffs which rise spectacularly up to four
thousand
feet above Kalalau Beach on the Na Pali Coast, Kauai, USA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above: Wineglass Bay seen from Mount Amos, located in the wilderness
of Freycinet National Park, Tasmania,
AUSTRALIA (panorama stitched from
5 images) (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below: Cod dries in racks at
Stamsund Harbor near a red fishing
shanty
(rorbu), NORWAY. [Published in
Wilderness
Travel 1989 Catalog of Adventures.]
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left:
The good ship "Explorer" cruises the
Antarctic Peninsula. ANTARCTICA
offers some spectacular seascapes and landscapes accessible by cruise
ship
from the port of Ushuaia, the
southernmost city in Argentina.
Reuters
News Pictures Service published this image in stories on the M/S
Explorer, which sank in 2007. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Waves on
Kalalau Beach at sunset, Na Pali Coast, Kauai,
USA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below right: Pancake rocks at Punakaiki, Paparoa
National Park,
NEW
ZEALAND.
[Published in Sierra
Magazine, Sierra Club Outings January/February 2004.]
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: Carol and I enjoyed walking the beautiful wild beach at
Gibson
Steps,
at 12 Apostles Marine National Park, Victoria, AUSTRALIA. (self
portrait
with camera on tripod) (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: The 1991 partial solar eclipse over Puget Sound,
seen from Sunset Hill Park, Seattle, Washington, USA.
[Published on the cover of
The
Mountaineer, September 1996.
"Best Scenic" in their 1996 cover photo contest.]
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below: The midnight sun backlights Mt. Reka (1,991 feet
elevation),
located on Langøy Island, Vesterålen (or Vesteraalen),
seen reflected in Eidsfjord, NORWAY.
[Published in Wilderness
Travel 1989 Catalog of Adventures.]
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Sea
cliffs at Pololu Valley Lookout in the north part of the
Big
Island, Hawaii. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Below right: Crepuscular rays of sunrise burst through a cloud,
over
the calm Caribbean Sea. Ambergris Caye, BELIZE.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Two gulets, (motor sailboats) beneath Mount Olympos, near Phaselis,
on the Turquoise Coast of TURKEY. (Click the image to see more from
the area.)
Below: Tugboats guide a log
raft through Deception Pass fog. A
native
madrona tree blooms on the left. Whidbey Island,
Washington, USA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above: Heceta Head and Heceta
Lighthouse on the Oregon coast.
Above: Russell Falls, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Lower Calf Creek Falls, Escalante-Grand
Staircase National
Monument, Utah, USA. (Click the image to see more from the
area.)
Above right: Avalanche Gorge. Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.
(Click the
image to see more from the area.)
Left: Havasu Canyon, Arizona, USA: Havasu Falls (100
feet high) on Havasu
Creek in Havasu Canyon, on the Havasupai Indian Reservation. Havasupai
means "people of the blue-green water." The beautiful color in the
pools
of Havasu Creek is caused by carbonate minerals settling to the bottom,
turning it white, and acting as a reflector of the surrounding green
and
brown mossy cliffs plus the blue sky. This unique color combination
creates
a striking turquoise pool, and one of the most beautiful waterfalls in
the world. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: Multnomah Falls, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon (near the
Washington
border), USA. (Click the image to see more from the
area.)
Below right: Here at Tambomachay, the Incas diverted a spring
through
impressive stone work, creating a small waterfall.
The Incas perfected
stonecraft to a degree which amazes us today. Not even a piece of paper
can fit between stones in the finer temples. Near Cuzco, PERU.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Rainbow Falls, a stunning travertine waterfall located on
a remote coast with wild white beaches, in Cape Otway National Park,
Victoria,
AUSTRALIA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: A waterfall and ferry, on spectacular Geirangerfjord,
the epitome
of Norwegian fjords. NORWAY. (Click the image to see more from the
area.)
Left: Yosemite Falls plunges 2425 feet (one of the world's highest waterfalls), in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. In 1984, UNESCO listed Yosemite National Park as a World Heritage Area. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
The following commercial web site
offers an interesting catalog of other famous waterfalls and fountains:
www.garden-fountains.com
Below right: Munising Falls, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore,
Michigan, USA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above: Falls on the Presque Isle River, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness
State Park, Michigan, USA. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Above: The Presque Isle River carves these potholes as it empties
into
Lake Superior. Porcupine
Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan,
USA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: A stream filled with colorful rocks on the hike to
Hidden Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana,
USA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: Upper Falls in Twin Falls Natural Area, Ollalie
State Park,
Washington State, USA. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Above: a side stream plunges through into the North
Umpqua River, surrounded by lush green moss,
near Roseburg, Oregon. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
You may also enjoy following commercial web site which offers an interesting catalog of some famous waterfalls and fountains worldwide: www.garden-fountains.com
Rainbows:
Left: Upper Mesa Falls, 114 feet high, Henrys Fork of the Snake
River,
Targhee National Forest, Idaho, USA. (Click the image
to see more from the area.)
Right: Rainbow on the Na Pali Coast, on the Island of Kauai
(photographed
from helicopter), State of Hawaii, USA. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Left: Yellowstone Falls with
rainbow. Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming, USA. Photo by
Carol Dempsey. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: Vent Geyser bends sunlight into a rainbow alongside
Turban Geyser,
Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone NP, USA. (Click the
image to see more from the area.)
Left: Rainbow over the ocean, Kauai, USA.
(Click
the image to see more from the area.)
Below: Cordillera
Huayhuash, PERU: Crossing the outlet stream
of Lake Carhuacocha (13,600 feet). The mountain on the left is the
second
highest in PERU, Yerupaja (21,760 feet above sea level). Published
in Wilderness Travel 2005 Catalog of
Adventures,
and in Fuentes, a Spanish textbook by Rusch, Houghton
Mifflin Company, 2004. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Left: Nelson River, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Below right: Tannins from trees color the Surprise River brown,
in
Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above: Foam swirls in Nelson River below Nelson Falls (photographed
with 4-second exposure), Tasmania, AUSTRALIA. (Click the image to
see more from the area.)
Left: Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National
Park, Alberta, CANADA.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Outflow from Grand Prismatic Spring forms a pleasing curve,
Yellowstone
National Park, Wyoming, USA. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Below left: Rafting the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
River,
Arizona.
(Click the image to see more from the area.)
Left: Grass silhouette and reflection
of Teton Range in
the
Snake River, Wyoming, USA. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Below:
Little Redfish Lake offers nice lakeside campgrounds in view of
spectacular reflections of the Sawtooth Mountain range, in Sawtooth
National Recreation Area, Idaho (panorama stitched from 2 images):
Below left:
Rays of sunlight pierce morning fog through trees, reflected in a
temporary puddle at Champoeg
State Park, Oregon.
Below: To capture this
overview of Grand Prismatic Spring
(in
Wyoming), Yellowstone's largest hot spring, I walked a bike path and
climbed
a small hill covered in burnt forest. Yellowstone National Park was
established
in 1872 as the world's first national park, and now it is now part of
the
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem which extends across parts of Wyoming,
Montana,
and Idaho. It is now also recognized as an International Biosphere
Preserve,
a World Heritage Site. (This panorama combines three images; scroll
right
to see all):
(Click the image to see more
from the area.)
Above: Los Cuernos and Lake Nordenskjold (in distance), Torres del
Paine National Park, CHILE. (Panorama stitched
from 2
images;
click to enlarge.) The park probably gets its name from payne,
a native Tehuelche word for blue, aptly describing the park's many
turquoise
lakes.
Above: Los Cuernos (the Horns) reflect in Lake Skottsberg in late
afternoon, Torres del Paine National Park, CHILE.
(Click the image
to see more from the area.)
Above: Moreno Glacier,
Lake Argentina, Los Glaciares
National
Park, ARGENTINA (panorama stitched from 2 images) (Click the
image
to see more from the area.)
Below: Lake Gjende (3,240
feet, on left) and Lake Bessvatn (4,509
feet) seen from Besseggen Ridge, Jotunheim Mountains, NORWAY:
(Click the image to see more
from the area.)
Above: Mountain goat, Bearhat Mountain, Hidden Lake.
Glacier
National Park, Montana, USA.
Left: Berg Lake and Mount Robson (12,972 feet),
highest peak
in the
Canadian
Rocky Mountains, Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia,
CANADA.
(Published
in January/February 2004 Sierra Magazine, Sierra Club Outings,
and in a 2006 book in Italy.) (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Above right: Ice chunks in Grey Lake from Grey Glacier, Torres del
Paine
National Park, CHILE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Crater Lake panorama from five images. Oregon, USA (Click the
image to see more from the area.)
Left:
Washington, USA: Mount Shuksan (North Cascades National Park),
reflects
in Picture Lake, which is located in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National
Forest.
(published
in January/February 2002
Sierra Magazine, Sierra
Club Outings) (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above: Emerald Lake Lodge, Yoho
National Park, British Columbia, CANADA. [Published
in Wilderness
Travel 2004 Catalog of Adventures.] (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Left: Sunrise on
Snowpatch Spire
(10,050 feet) reflected in a tarn,
Bugaboo
Provincial Park, British Columbia, CANADA. (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Above right: High Sierra, California, USA: A pond near Italy Pass.
Published in March/April 2000 Sierra
Magazine,
Sierra Club Outings. (Click the image to see more from the
area.)
Left: Salinas salt mines in
the Sacred Valley of the Incas,
Urubamba Valley, PERU. (Click
the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: A pretty pond in the Japanese Garden, University of Washington Arboretum, Seattle, Washington, USA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Weather (clouds, rain, snow, ice):
Left: Icicles in Alpine
Lakes Wilderness Area, at Alpental, Snoqualmie Pass, Interstate 90,
Washington, USA. (Click the image to see more from
the area.)
Below: A zodiac explores a natural arch eroded from an iceberg in
ANTARCTICA.
[Published in Wilderness Travel 2009
Catalog of Adventures.]
Above: Kendall Peak (5675 feet elevation) in winter, seen on
a snowshoe hike from Interstate
90, in Washington, USA. (Click the image to see more from the
area.)
Above left: Snow dusts maple trees in late
September, in Superior
National Forest, Minnesota, USA. (Click the image to
see more from the area.)
Above right: Windswept clouds over the Martial
Mountains seen
from
the Canadon Negro trail, Tierra del Fuego National Park, a day hike
from
the ski lift above Ushuaia, ARGENTINA. (Click the image to
see more from the area.)
Left:
Grass frozen in thin ice on a puddle creates an intriguing
pattern. Champoeg State Heritage
Area, Oregon.
Above right: Snowy branches
in Alpine
Lakes Wilderness Area, near Alpental, Snoqualmie Pass,
Washington, USA. (Click the image to see more from
the area.)
Left: Clouds over Hawaii. (Click the image to see more
from the
area.)
Above right: Snow-covered branches, Northern California.
(Click the
image to see more from the area.)
Above: The last rays of sunset highlight turbulent clouds over the
finely crafted Inca walls of Sacsayhuaman, built on a hill above Cuzco,
PERU (natural light, no colored filters). (Click the image to see
more from the area.)
Left:
Guarderia (Park Ranger Office) beneath Los Cuernos (the
Horns),
Torres del Paine National Park, CHILE. (Click the image to see more
from the area.)
Left: High winds rake afternoon clouds over Paine Grande (10,006
feet elevation), Torres del Paine National Park, CHILE. (Click the
image to see more from the area.)
Left: Water drops on maple leaf in late September. Superior National
Forest,
Minnesota, USA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: Standing-wave cloud over Mount Fitz Roy, Los Glaciares
National
Park, ARGENTINA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
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Left: Morning
mists drift through the cinder cones in Haleakala
Crater and often evaporate by mid-afternoon. Mauai, State of Hawaii,
USA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Above right: An early snow shower in late September, Superior
National Forest,
Minnesota. (Click the image to see more from the area.)
Copyright 2006 by Tom
Dempsey. Photographs or text may not be copied without permission.