Palermo PlaygroundMount Pellegrino (606 meters 1970 feet in altitude) adjacent to the Tyrrhenian Sea offers vistas from the city of Palermo to the shore, Sicily, Italy.

Cholla is surrounded by a burst of color and verdance in a brief Sonoran Desert Spring

Live Oak trees line an earthen roadway in rural Louisiana to create a living tunnel

208 pages of images produced exclusively on film

A male Tibetan macaque living in the Huangshan Mountains of China’s Anhui Provence

A male lion from Zimbabwe catches an instant of light as it pierces the forest to highlight its regal demeanor

while leaving pockets of trees without any traces of the burn

The ten-thousand foot (3400 meter) altitude hosts some of the oldest specimens of wood in the world and some of the living specimens here have endured for thousands of years

It can be bountifully fertile and yet strikingly barren

Tree ferns growing on the North Island in New Zealand

He captures the faces of places from river to river

Sand verbena is the common name for theis pink profusion which lays a carpet of color in pockets of the Sonoran Desert which straddles Arizona and California in the USA and Sonora in Mexico

It still exudes the charm of a bygone era as it is cloistered behind historic city walls and shielded from the modern city