Geologic Photos

Some of the things I do to take good pictures.

Sure, I'll include myself. Most of the photos are my own.

There are dozens of excellent mountains, and a few notable nonmountains, here.

A selection of my landscape photos with geologic subjects.

Conditions for use of my images from this site.

More than 27,000 photos from the USGS's rich history are available here, copyright-free.

Ron Schott teaches at Fort Hays State University in Kansas and takes excellent photos.

Yuprocks.com is dedicated to providing quality, high-resolution rock pictures and mineral pictures for educational purposes.

The work of geologist-photographer Dennis Sullivan appears here in a gallery of American West and Hawaiian images.

3D and standard images of many different national parks, presented by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Striking images of Earth—fire, water, ice, and earth—by German geologist/photographer Bernhard Edmaier, many taken from the air.

Geologist John Karachewski specializes in the American West. His work appears often in professional journals.

Photos of geologic and other subjects by geologist/photographer Cleet Carlton, who also educates through his annotations.

This gifted photographer and travel writer is not afraid to show his soul as well as his wares. The Geological Formations thumbnail page is just a fraction of his Synaptics site.

Miller teaches geology at the University of Oregon. She has a large number of small but well-chosen photos of geologic features and spectacular localities.

Prof. Miller has her own site dedicated to excellent geo-photos.

The incomparable David Muench and his son Marc present vivid landscape images from the natural areas of the United States. Free thumbnails, larger images for viewing if you register.

Images from U.S. national parks, free for downloading and all uses.

Archival panoramas from the 1930s, some of them hand-colored, are reproduced here by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Photographer Madison Rink has fallen in love with the shapes of rocks.

William W. Shilts was Illinois Geological Survey director for 14 years, but these 250 photos are from his previous 31 years researching in Canada.

A photo gallery at the University of Cape Town presents photos by students and faculty from the Department of Geological Sciences. Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, is shown to be a geologic treasure.

Amazing rocks and desert photos from the Upheaval Dome area of remote Utah, made by John Louie of the University of Nevada Reno while he was trying to conduct research in this dazzling wilderness setting.