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Scoters marking the thin line between sky and water. Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.Surf scoters on a foggy day. Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.Reflections. Surf scoters in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.Mew gull duet. Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.A southern red-billed hornbill in the thornvelde of the Kalahari Desert, Namibia.Great blue heron. Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.The Untimely Death of Planck's Constant. This moment in the demise of the 'Cyrillic h' was captured in the tropical savanna of Belize, a remote corner of the world filled with more wildlife than people.An ostrich crosses the desert towards a distant mirage, perhaps in search of water. Namibia.Bubbles frozen into the ice just beneath the surface of a small pond. Temperatures dropped very rapidly to capture these bubbles before they could merge together.These eggs are each a fraction of the size of the head of a pin. They were laid out in beautiful rows, and large prints reveal details that I suspect are individual cells.Ripples on a sand dune in Great Sand Dunes National Park. I was drawn to the place where two sets of regular-spaced ripples were going in different directions (top and bottom). When they merged, a slightly chaotic and wider pattern formed in the middle.An elephant and his mahout cooling in the Ping River, Thailand. Not technically wildlife, of course, but perhaps the elephant should be. The small blessing of domestication is that a conscientious mahout will protect his elephant from ivory poachers.

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