Out of This World

9 Frames

Places that look like somewhere else entirely — sandstone carved into impossible curves, desert monoliths, skies with no light but stars. The Earth doing its best impression of another planet.

Grand Prismatic Spring seen from above, its blue centre ringed by orange bacterial mats, lodgepole pines in the foreground.
Rust and amber bacterial mats sweeping across the foreground while steam lifts into a dark mammatus sky.
Stepped travertine terraces in white and ochre, thin water spilling over each lip into the pool below.
A close study of travertine crust, mineral white breaking into rust and gold across the rock face.
Sculpted sandstone walls inside Lower Antelope Canyon curving around a bright shaft of daylight above.
Layered orange sandstone rising on both sides of a narrow slot canyon toward a slot of white sky.
The Colorado River wrapped in a full horseshoe around a red sandstone butte, seen from the canyon rim.
The Mittens and Merrick Butte in Monument Valley catching first light, a dirt road curving away through the foreground.
The Milky Way arcing above a dark granite rock formation under a sky thick with stars.