Scenics - Robert W. Madden Photography

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: Block Island, Rhode Island Race; Sloops probe the fog off Block Island, ten miles from the mainland during the island’s Race Week.

: Oahu Sunset Cruise; Off the coast of Waikiki a gaff rigged schooner provides sunset cruises for tourists and a visual sight for photographers on the beach.

: Pico Bolivar, Venzuela; In the far west of the country soars the 16,427 foot crag of Pico Bolivar, the nation’s highest point.

: Building a Nuclear Reactor; Climbing a lattice of steel rods, a worker checks the welds at one of three nuclear power plants in various stages of construction on the Columbia River.

: Mirador Las Torres, Chile; When hiking the famed ‘W’ in Torres del Paine National Park, a highlight is capturing the sunrise from the iconic Torres Lookout.

: Line Storm Annapolis, Maryland; A summer line storm roars through the Chesapeake Bay dwarfing a sailboat leaving the harbor.

: Almaden, Spain; Ground fog sweeps across the hillsides at dawn to create a fantasy landscape.

: Haverdalseter, Norway Clouds; Upper air currents in the sub-arctic and above the treeline shape the clouds.

: Cutting Wheat, Washington State; Sound of harvest breaks the silence in eastern Washington State’s Palouse Hills as a combine chews through wheat fields.

: Annapolis Yacht Club Race; Sponsored by the Annapolis Yacht Club, the Wednesday Night Series features 130 sailboats and over 700 sailors with a number of boat classes.

: “The Watchman” Zion NP; Photographers line a bridge in Zion to record the sunset at ‘The Watchman’. The Virgin River, ablaze with yellow-leaved cottonwoods, completes the scene.

: Wiamea Canyon, Kauai, Hawaii; Goat’s-eye view reveals the chiseled expanse of Waimea Canyon, which coils 14 miles across Kauai’s western end.

: Wettest Spot On Earth; Where cataracts of lava boiled, threads of icy water now nourish the lower slopes of Wai‘ale‘ale – a mile-high extinct volcano – that is the rainiest spot on earth.

: Vinales Panorama, Cuba; The Viñales Valley is an outstanding karst landscape surrounded by mountains and dotted with limestone outcroppings called mogotes.

: Amateur Bullfight in Venzeula; During an event called toros coleados, local youngsters play bull fighters – a dangerous pastime for the unskilled.

: Lava Tube, Hawaii; Many ancient lava tubes enter the ocean and were used for ceremonies and burials by Hawaiians who entered from ground level.

: Surfers Point, Australia; On the west coast the surf is world renowned with many prime days for kite boarders and windsurfers.

: Surf Fishing ,North Carolina; A waning storm creates a rainbow at dusk. Night surf fishing holds a following on the Outer Banks after tourists pack up their beach gear.

: Classic Wooden Cathedral; Looking for something for the collection plate, a young parishioner stands at the door of St. George’s Cathedral, an Anglican cathedral.

: “Frozen” Lava; As 2,000 degree lava from the Mauna Ulu volcano spills into the 70 degree sea, it explodes upward in a spatter pattern.

: Chesapeake Bay Skipjack; Running before a squall, the 80-year-old skipjack Ruby G. Ford interrupts her winter routine of oyster dredging on the Chesapeake Bay.

: Mauna Kea, Hawaii; In January, the top of Mauna Kea attracts skiers from the coast to participate in exhilarating runs down snow-covered cinder cones near the peak.

: White Mountains New Hampshire; ‘Sunset Point’ is aptly named at Greenleaf hut, a 4,000 foot high Appalachian Mountain Club hut – a short distance from the Appalachian Trail,.

: Second “Wave”, Arizona; The Second Wave is controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) who issue only 20 permits per day, protecting the fragile landscape.

: Great Chesapeake Schooner Race; The start of an annual Great Chesapeake Schooner Race, the route encompasses an overnight sail down the Bay to Norfolk.

: Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho; Sunrise highlights peaks of Idaho’s Sawtooth Range, a 41 mile long arm of the Northern Rockies.

: Navajo Slot Canyon; The Navajo Nation controls the Lower Antelope canyon,. These formations were formed by constant flash floods that carved fissures through the red sandstone rock.

: Rainbow from Air, Hawaii; Painting the sky with bold strokes of color, a rainbow arches over ripening fields of cane on Kauai’s eastern side.

: Mauna Ulu Hawaii Eruption; Hawaii’s Mauna Ulu spouts a fountain of lava at a temperature of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A geologist, approaching from the upwind side, records the volcano’s tantrum.

: Na Pali Coast of Hawaii, Hawaii; Precipitous lava cliffs spill down Kauai’s Na Pali coast. Within its lush hidden valleys lived early Hawaiians, whose temples and house platforms still exist.

: Native American Fishing, Washington State; The technique of reef netting: as sockeye salmon migrate from the Pacific to the Fraser River in Canada, towed barges take position off Lumini island.

: Great Wall Of China; The Great Wall is a series of fortifications that were built across the northern borders of ancient Chinese states as protection against various nomadic groups.

: Burma Leg Rowers Fishing; In the central part of Burma the Intha people use a fishing technique believed to date from the 12th century called leg rowing.

: Machu Pichuu, Peru; Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel often referred to as the ‘Lost City of the Incas’, it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.

: Lake Thunderbird, Oklahoma; Cleaving an angry sky, a lightning bolt flashes beyond Lake Thunderbird. It is named for the Native American legend of the Thunderbird, a supernatural bird of power and strength.

: White Pocket, Arizona; White Pocket is a small series of formations noted for the orange and white windswept sand- stone rocks that make them look like giant ice cream cones.

: Mt Olympus, Washington State; Using what is called the ‘French Technique’, a climber uses two ice axes and crampons to scale a small glacier on the flanks of Mt. Olympus.

: Horseshoe Bend, Colorado River; A classic sunset view of the Colorado River’s Horseshoe Bend. Accessible by boat, a campsite at the apex of the bend completes the scene.

: Bryce Canyon, Utah; Here is the largest concentration of Hoodoos (irregular columns of rock) found anywhere.

: Geothermal Spring ,Yellowstone; Looking straight down on Grand Prismatic Springs at high noon, this aerial shot shows no shadows from the edges of the spring.

: Dry Valley Glacier, Antarctica; The Commonwealth Glacier flows through a mountain pass down into the Taylor Dry Valley.

: Crabbing at Chesapeake Bay Bridge; Sunrise over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge finds crews on workboats tending their crab traps.

: Lava Pours into the Sea; As molten magma from Mauna Ulu makes its way down a lava tube and into the sea, it forms the shape of a dragon’s head.

: Crab Skimmer, Maryland; Local boats scrape sea grasses in Chesapeake Bay shallows for soft shelled crabs molting near the town of Ewell.

: Niulii, Hawaii; Turning bold shoulders to the sea, the windward coast near Niulii shrugs off the relentless surf.

: Paria Canyon Arizona; Shown at night, the sandstone rock formation known as the ‘Chess Queen’ is situated iin the Vermilion Cliffs Wldereness. The Milky Way appears in the sky behind the monolith.

: Bruneau Canyon Idaho; Spring cloudburst soaks a sagebrush plateau in southwestern Idaho.

: The Brooklyn Bridge; The Brooklyn Bridge was built by German immigrant John A. Robling over a 13-year period and opened in 1882.

: Netting Migratory Fish; Tidal water from the Chesapeake Bay is channeled up the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River through a culvert under U.S. Route 1.

: Great Fox Island Maryland; At Great Fox Island, an education center, ecology instructor Bo Hoppin provokes students to rise early with a display of ‘walking the pilings’.

: Central Serengeti Stars Tanzania; Stars in the heavens produce enough light at night in this tented camp that flashlights are only necessary to spook dangerous animals and snakes.

: White Sands New Mexico; Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand cover 275 miles of the desert. The world’s largest gypsum dune field was formed over the last 12,000 years.

: Mauna Ulu, Hawaii, Hawaii; Glowering luridly against the night sky, Mauna Ulu, a vent of Kilauea, belches lava a hundred feet in the air.

: Byrd Station, Antarctica; In the glare of the midnight sun, never-melting snow sifts over the canvas huts of Americans mapping Marie Byrd Land.

: Angel Falls, Venzuela; Angel Falls hurdles 3/5 of a mile from the towering brow of Auyun-Tepui, a flat-topped mountain. It’s the world’s highest waterfall – 16 times the height of Niagra Falls.