Island Time wave Ben got there at first

Ben got there at first light

Natalie shoots from the rocks below Kalalau on Kauaʻi's Nā Pali Coast

Elephants drink fifty to seventy gallons of water a day — every member of a herd will visit the waterhole every twenty-four hours when conditions allow it

300 feet in the Elk Mountains north of Aspen

partly washed-out wooden steps that the postcards never show you climbing back up

Island Time wave Ben got there at firstMauritius sits about 700 miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean a volcanic island ringed almost entirely by coral reef, which is why the lagoons inside the reef sit so flat and so blue. Pointe de Flacq is on the windward east coast, the side most international visitors skip in favor of the developed west. Alex shoots in black and white, the palm rows reading as repeating verticals against the still water.