British CrownThis double rainbow jumped out of the gloom for just short minutes in northern Great Britain as I was moving along a narrow country lane. With no safe place to park, I quickly pulled into a cottage driveway and hurried to set my camera gear. The instant I leaped across the road a woman came running out of the cottage yelling at the top of her voice. "That's the most beautiful rainbow I've ever seen" she said as she graciously ignored my intrusion.

Waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest

The flared granitic slope of Western Australia's Wave Rock reaches upward some fifteen meters (46 feet) but holds an eternal crest as it refuses to yield to gravity

all except for one

Springtime blooms in Texas

The inviting Gothic parish church sits high on a rock in the village of Oetz in the Imst region of Austria

A panda face is the object of a beam of light in its forested habitat

A wide range of colors and styles makes the common rose often quite uncommon

Desert spectacle in Arizona

Typically much human activity surrounds the area but due to a lightning storm at the time of this image capture all had retreated

the book features:

Varied vistas and penetrating trails provide fascinating insights at every turn

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