Lone Tree Size:Gallery 200 feet above the Chilean

200 feet above the Chilean Patagonian steppe — vertical walls of granite intruded into older sedimentary rock about 12 million years ago

Alex Wood’s composition feels both serene and cinematic—the kind of atmosphere you can almost breathe in

the morning side-lighting reading every fold in the cliff as a separate ridge

Bathed in California’s golden haze

Ben grew up on this stretch of New South Wales coast — the Central Coast that sits between Sydney and Newcastle and runs on its own quieter clock

Lone Tree Size:Gallery 200 feet above the ChileanHayden Valley is the long open meadow in the middle of Yellowstone, a former lakebed laid down by glacial damming and now drained by the Yellowstone River. Wolves, bison, and elk all winter here; trees are scarce because the high water table and the regular floods make it hard for them to take. Tom catches one of the few that did, alone on the snow.