Larry Engles Nature Photography: Featured Galleries and Collections

Recent Bird and Wildlife Photos

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:00:24 GMT

Recent bird photos are put here and in their permanent gallery. They are removed from here after an arbitrary length of time.

Recent Landscape Photos

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:57:38 GMT

Recent photos (other than birds) are put here and in their permanent gallery. They are removed from here after an arbitrary length of time.

Recent Small Things

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:09:51 GMT

Photo of the Month

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:59:13 GMT

My pick for photo of the month (found I could not do this weekly with any regularity). Past months' picks will remain for up to a year. I update this every once in awhile, so it will not be exactly monthly.

Canadian Rockies 2011

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:08:18 GMT

Photos were taken from September 6 to September 10. During that time, the daytime highs averaged above 80 and not a single cloud was seen. According to the locals, this was the start of their summer.

Bryce Canyon National Park

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:41:54 GMT

Photos are from a visit in May 20 and 21, 2011. On the first day, snow fell while we were hiking. The second day was in the 70s (fahrenheit).

Zion National Park

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:35:57 GMT

These photos are from June 22 and 23, 2011. The first day was stormy (but not too much) so we visited the Kolub Terrace via the, surprise, Kolub Terrace road. This is a different place than the Kolub Canyon, which was also visited that day.

Much of Zion is comprised of petrified sand dunes and it shows with wonderful patterns.

Monument Valley

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:22:02 GMT

Monument Valley is in the range of the Navajo Nation reservation. The floor is primarily Cutler Red siltstone. It is astride the Utah Arizona border.

Photos are from June 2, 2011.

Arches National Park

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:40:45 GMT

Photos are all from a visit on June 4, 2011.

Canyonlands & vicinity

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:50:21 GMT

Photos are from June 3 and 5, 2011.

Phoenix Area birds - May, 2011

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:45:52 GMT

I spent 4 days in Scottsdale area. A couple days were spent bird-watching. Fortunately, we were there ahead of the sandstorm.

Painted Desert

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:45:50 GMT

This portion of the Painted Desert is in the Petrified Forest National Park. The photos were taken on May 28, 2011. It was really really windy. The sky showing in some photos is brown due to the sand in the air.

Harney County, Oregon August 2011

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:18:47 GMT

Photos are from a visit to Harney County, Oregon in August 2011. Steen's Mountain is to the east of Malheur NWR. Alvord Desert is on the east side of Steen's.

The Palouse

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:01:55 GMT

These were taken the first week of June. Photos will be added for awhile as there are a LOT to process. It is populated with many very friendly folk who made the visit much more than just taking photos.

Ice Age Floods

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:59:43 GMT

Around 13,000 years ago, Lake Missoula was one of the largest freshwater lakes in the history of the world. It was formed by glaciers plugging the outlet of what is now Lake Pend Oreille in Northern Idaho. When the water got deep enough, the ice floated and the dam burst. It might have been the biggest flood in the earth's history.

Lake Pend Oreille (a very very large lake) is the tiny remnant of what is referred to as Lake Missoula (the lake was 900 feet deep at Missoula, which was 160 miles upstream).

The water volume discharge rate is estimated as 200 times the maximum ever measured flood volume of the Mississippi River and 750 times the average discharge of the Amazon River!

The photos in this gallery are of land affected by the lake and the floods. I hope you enjoy viewing them.

Southern Oregon, Oct 09

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:05:33 GMT

These photos are from a 10 day trip to Klamath Falls in southern Oregon. It will take a few weeks to put this folder together.

Skagit Flats Tulip Fields

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:16:04 GMT

These are all photos from the spring of 2010 and 2011.

The Skagit Flats are in the northwest corner of Washington state and are famous for their tulip fields. A tulip festival lasts for the month of April.

Coulees in Washington state

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:56:18 GMT

Photo gallery from 3 day visit to the Grand Coulee (Upper and Lower) and Moses Coulee (10 miles west of Grand Coulee).

This is a companion gallery to the Ice Age Floods gallery.

Moses Coulee was the first of the two coulees formed by outflow from ancient Lake Columbia (into which the Lake Missoula floods emptied). It was used only for a short while (geologically speaking) before an ice lobe sealed it. Then the Grand Coulee was used for a longer while.

It has been 13,000 years since water flowed through Grand Coulee and even longer since it flowed through Moses Coulee. Neither coulee has a river or stream running through it now.

It is really fun to let your imagination go here. Imagine a flood so big that Grand Coulee overflowed - by a lot, not just a little - to the tune of several hundred feet over the top for miles and miles in width (hundreds of miles if my reading is accurate).

John Day Painted Hills

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:56:19 GMT

John Day region in North-central Oregon includes the John Day Painted Hills. The hills are colored clay from lava flows 30 to 40 million years ago. The clay is so dense it is completely unhospitable to plants and thus is bare.

The initial photos are from a visit in late May of 2010. This was during an unusually wet period. During wet periods, the clay color intensifies and a few grasses and plants show color.

The wind farm is around the Columbia River gorge south to Condon Oregon.

Yosemite

engles@ridesoft.com (Larry Engles Nature Photography) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:22:20 GMT