evanescent: fleeting, transitory
evanescent wave: a nearfield standing wave, employed for total internal reflection microscopy
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Favorites
A selection of favorite images from the Evanescent Light Galleries.
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"Emergent Island"
A semi-abstract composition, formed by reflections from a sunlit rock face around a small island revealed by falling water level in Lake Powell.
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"Moonlit Moai"
One of the abandoned moai at Rano Roraku on Easter Island, photographed before dawn with the aid of lightpainting and a moonset veiled behind thin clouds.
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"Jokelbergs"
Small icebergs from the Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon washed up on the black sand beach; photographed under an Icelandic winter sky. |
"Apocolyptic cloud"
An Icelandic winter skyscape over an abondoned church site.
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"Two long-billed curlews"
A heavy mist provided a clean backdrop for this portrait of two birds at Morro Strand beach.
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"Gentoo Penguin Colony, Antarctica"
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"Riding Past the Milky Way"
An image captured during the annual 508 bike race through Death Valley.
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"Puffin huddle"
A portrait of puffins on the cliffs at Dyrholaey, Iceland. A shadowed, black sand beach provided a perfect non-distracting background.
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"Church at the Rainbow's End"
An intense rainbow appeared against storm clouds as we drove up a remote valley in Iceland.
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"Joshua Tree Reflections"
Reflections in meltwater from the heaviest winter snowfall in Joshua Tree National Park for many years. |
"Yosemite Falls Rainbow"
At just the right time of year and day, and at just the
right angle, spray from upper Yosemite Falls creates a vivid rainbow. |
"Canyon Dweller"
A preying mantis in the depths of lower Antelope Canyon
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"Courting terns"
Bolsa Chica Wildlife Reserve, California
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"Deadvlei"
Photograph or painting? Sossusvlei, Namibia
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"Pfeiffer Arch Sunbeam"
The setting sun aligns in Winter through a sea arch at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur. The image here is a sequence, capturing a single wave after it broke through the arch.
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"Milky Way arcing above Mono Lake, viewed from the Log Cabin mine road"
Stitched 30s exposures with a 14 mm lens on full-frame to capture the entire ard of the milky way. |
"Yosemite Firefall"
Toward the end of February the setting sun backlights water falling from Horsetail Falls, high above Yosemite Valley.
[30 Mpixel vertical panorama]
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"Grand Canyon Lightning"
A long exposure at dusk to capture multiple lightning strikes over the Painted Deseert
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"Monument Valley Cloudscape"
A spectacular cloud formation
enhances the iconic red rock formations of Monument Valley
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"Pampas Grass, Fog and Cloud"
Big Sur, California
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"Aurora Borealis"
Dyrholaey, Iceland
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"Juniper and Monolith"
Joshua Tree National Park, CA |
"Sunset - Salar de Uyuni"
Bolivia
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"Flamingo Takeoff"
Atacama Desert, Chile
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Updated 11/09/2014
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