Adam Elliott Photography Portfolio - Photojournalist and Photographer

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Cave Valley Hoodoo

Another notable Hoodoo in Cave Valley. Since this picture was taken it's possible this land was part of a parcel sold to a private individual, and no longer belongs to the public.

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Icy Black Hole

Icicles reach down into a semi-permanent hole in the water surface.

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Stone Basin

A huge stone basin full of mesmerising cross bedding and virtually free of vegetation.

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Wild Jungle Beach

An unvisited beach on a tropical island in the Chiriqui Archipelago.

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The Harding Icefields

The Harding Icefields are one of the most amazing places i've ever been. It's a relentless gruelling hike to get up there but when you finally come over the last hill and see that vista, you feel like have walked right into Antarctica or Greenland. This image is not even the main icefields but a small area where the Exit Glacier begins it's decent. To the right, the icefields continue for 40 miles.

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LIttle Finland

Also called Red Springs because there is a real oasis nearby, the crazy rock formations are so high in detail they are reminiscent of the coastline of Finland.

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Lone Wolf

A lone wolf travels across the limitless wilderness of Denali National Park. Although i have had numerous close encounters with wolves, i never had a camera a the time and i've always liked this solitary figure. He was stationary for a time.

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La Verkin Valley

Storms pass down in front of Pine Mountain.

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Black and Orange Mountain

Wrangle St. Elias National Park is part of the largest protected wilderness area in North America.

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The River More Ancient than Epochs

Another one of my favorite views, of all the places i've been. The Green River, far older than the Colorado or any of these Canyons, meanders through a perfect set of curves in a vast desolate landscape called Canyonlands. Beyond the canyons the Henry Mountains remind me of where i spent so many afternoons escaping the heat of the desert and exploring old mines.

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Deep Winter Sunset

An a dark day in the dead of winter the sun sets between layers of clouds above Anchorage, Alaska.

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Mt. Wake

Base camp wasn't very pleasant so we headed east. This is the back, or west side of what i think is called Mt. Wake in the center.

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Desolate Arctic Valley

The Dalton Highway zigzags down through the northern side of the Brooks Range. There are no trees from here to the ocean.

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Northwestern Waterall 2

A vertically oriented image of the waterfall pouring out of the Northwestern Glacier.

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A Different Kind of Rainbow

A really nice display shifting from green to violet.

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The Yellow Mountains of Elias

Untouched streams flow through rarely visited canyons in the wilderness of Wrangle St. Elias.

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Spawn Until You Die

I was lucky to actually capture the moment a wild salmon spawned. It is the cloud behind the foreground fish.

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Jabba The Hut

Jimmy admires the view next to a rock formation i like to call Jabba the Hut.

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Circular Entrance

The entrance to the "snow" cave (it was actually ice) had a circular shape

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Double Reflection Rainbow

A rare event. The centres of reflection bows are at the same altitude as the sun - the anthelic point. This is the same distance above the horizon as the centres of normal bows are below it at the antisolar point. The normal bow and its corresponding reflection bow intersect at the horizon. Reflection bows are usually brightest when the sun is low because then its light is reflected most strongly from water surfaces. The normal and reflection bows draw closer together as the sun gets lower. The source of the reflected light is usually water behind you, i.e. sunwards. It can be in front of you but then only the base of the reflected bow will be seen.

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Autumn Ram

A very nice looking Dall Sheep basks in the morning sun after a frosty September night in Denali National Park.

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Granite Fins

Giant fins of granite on the side of Mt. Bradley.

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The Virginis

The Virginis. Boat graveyards are really cool but i didn't know if you were allowed to wander around or if this was like finding someones property covered in junk cars.

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Palenque Beach

An unvisited beach on a tropical island in the Chiriqui Archipelago.

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Conveyor of Mountains

These dark stripes, the lateral moraines are rubble stripped from the mountains. The rubble is thick, on the surface several dump trucks of thickness, and they usually continue well below the surface. They stretch all the way down the glacier, 35 miles from this point. All of that rock has been removed from the mountains. It's a detailed logbook of erosion. It's all right there, neatly organized, easily measured, and it's a huge sum.

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Storm Over Eagle Lake

The clouds part after a freezing rain (and snow) over Eagle Lake in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska. The sleet and hail had been so bad Fisher and i sought shelter in a ruin.

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Edge of Tundra

A glacial stream flows from the edge of a smooth ice cap retreating up a freshly exposed, rugged canyon. On the left are tundra fields, on the right virtually nothing grows.

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Mauna Kea Summit

Two hikers bravely walk from the nearby parking lot to the summit of Mauna Kea. Notice the huge summit shadow receding off into the distance.

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Springdale Winter Cliffs

Cliffs of Zion adorned with a fresh coat of snow

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Desert Sheep 7

I like the pose of this sheep in this simple straight on portrait. It reminds me of a diorama i would see in the NY Museum of Natural History

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Udder of Ice

Seriously, these icicles look like they should be milked. They're already dripping.

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Hermit Crab 2

Moseying along

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Eagle vs. Ravens

Alaska; Homer; Wildlife; birds; eagles; battle; ocean; Cook Inlet

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Las Rocas Beach

Another nice sunset on Palenque. At the time of my first visit there was nothing here at all and we had to take a 25 minute boat ride back to the mainland in the dark. Now tucked just inside the jungle is a relaxing beach bar and restaurant where you can watch the sunset every day in comfort.

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Cave Valley

A fall day in Cave Valley on the Kolob Terrace

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Golden Eagle

A golden eagle stares straight over at the summit of Mt. McKinley, no doubt contemplating giving it a try.

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Center of the Universe

I had been up to this cool white pass in Zion years ago, and found out that more recently a park employee, like i used to be, had also discovered it and told people it was like the "center of the universe". I agree as far as it seems to be another of those areas with a science fiction feel to it. It made me think of distant futures.

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Purple Canyon

Remote streams flow through multi colored canyon covered in tundra.

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Fonts Point

Fonts Point is Anza Borrego State Park is an amazing badlands area of formerly undersea delta sediments. It's full of fossils too.

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Timeless Mountains

The primitive forms of the arctic landscape make one feel that they have travelled far back to the time before man.

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Eagle vs. Ravens 2

There were a pair of nesting bald eagles right next to our house. They were constantly out looking for food and the local crows never gave them a break.

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Walrus Tundra Terrace

A very nice walk up a mountain stream between two lakes

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Ice Birds Wing

We flew over a series of ice caps with borders rectangular in nature. These icefields, several of which are visible in this picture, were recently connected.

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Flower Study 1

I like taking macro pictures, but i don't do it often enough.

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Stone Waves

Stone carved by water begins to take on the appearance of water in the form of waves on a rough sea.

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Sow and Cub

A mother teaches her teenager how to fish

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Ruth Glacier 2

Flying across the lower reaches of the Ruth Glacier. I could have had a great time if they could have dropped me off here for some exploration.

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Matanuska Reflections

I passed this pool of water on the highway more times than i can count. Finally one fall i passed by on just the right day for colorful birch to reflect in still waters. I never saw it look so nice again in the years to come.

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Laughlin Glacier and Mountain

Laughlin is a dramatic hanging glacier near the US/Canadian border north of Skagway.

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Black Skies Over Black Canyon

A summer storm blows over Black Canyon of the Gunnison

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The Door Through the Sky

A thin black band of cloud hovers high above a solitary monolith that, from a distance, looked like a hole in the sky at the edge of the world.

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Bryce Canyon Panorama

I don't like to get up before dawn, but Bryce is one of few places i've been where it's worth it to see the sunrise.

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Yellow Flower Still LIfe

It's been so long i can't remember what flower this is. It was on the side of our house when we had a lot of Tiger Lilies, but they were orange. I liked that there was this little entry like a launching tube on a spaceship. The shaft had sticky nectar around it to catch pollen.

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Smith Rock State Park

A hiker enjoys a stroll in Smith Rock State Park, Oregon.

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Black Humps

A pair of humpback whales in Resurrection Bay, Alaska

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Turret Arch

Turret Arch at sunset

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Braided River

Gold Forests light up in the sun above the eastern end of the Matanuska River

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Red Butte Wilderness

There are no trails in the Red Butte Wilderness but there are a limitless number of Manzanita Bushes.

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Snow Wedge Under The Throne

Looks like an avalanche was wedged apart on The Great White Throne

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Avian Shroud (detail)

This dome of rock in the Chiswell Archipelago was engulfed in an eternal cloak made up of thousands of sea birds. you can see some of them on both sides of the rock where the contrast with the sky helps them stand out.

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The Road to Nebesna

There is nothing at Nebesna but an old abandoned mine on private property, and a hunting lodge. The road though, is 60 miles and dead ends there. But if you are looking for nowhere, this is the road to get you there.

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Snow on No-Mans Land

High up in no-man’s land the sun is making quick work of exposed slopes

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The Mighty Bear Glacier

The Bear Glacier is a "large" glacier, in some places several miles wide. It pours into a quickly growing lake behind the full grown forest in the distance.

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Green Resplendent Quetzal

Sometimes you are ridiculously lucky. I had set out in the morning with the goal of finding some elusive Resplendent Quetzals in the cloud forests of Panama below the continental divide, just a few miles from Costa Rica. And then, within an hour i found TWO building a nest together in this tree!

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Mossy Gorge 2

Another shot of the secret gorge.

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Zion’s High Wildlands

My favorite places in the world are in Zion's wild highlands and high wildlands. It reminds me at times of exploring the stone version of a glacier.

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Sockey Salmon

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Sunset Arches

Sunlight streams through arches and illuminates pillars of Arches National Park

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First Snow at Matanuska

Fresh fuel for glaciers, a blanket of white on a fall day in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska.

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The Wing

This is one of my favorite secret places to enjoy in Utah. So far it's in fairly pristine condition, so i can't reveal it's location.

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Friends at the Palace

This young boy and girl spent their day skateboarding and climbing on the crumbling palace of former dictator Manuel Noriega. Waves crashed immediately below and i did not know it at the time but the railings in some areas were partially styrofoam due to being 'repaired' for a James Bond movie.

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Snow Canyon Vista

Vistors take in the view and watch their daughter wander off into the wilderness.

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Island in the Stormy Sky

The island in the Sky District of Canyonlands offers sweeping vistas.

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Cascades of Kanarraville

In a more open area of Kanarraville canyon the creek cascades down a series of ledges.

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Puffins in Flight

A pair of Puffins skitter across the ocean

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Virgin River Gorge

The Virgin River Gorge is a highly underrated canyon of the American West.

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Cinder Cone and Red Cliffs

One of many small volcanoes that ruined much of the Colorado Plateau as recently as 900 years ago.

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Foggy Paradise

Icy cold water from glaciers above pours quickly past lush rainforest into the ocean at low tide. In the distance moose antlers stick up out of the water. Or are they only driftwood?

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Ruth Glacier (close up)

From the right distance the surface looks almost like a satellite image.

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Resplendent Quetzal of Boquete

The two birds would take turns digging and resting.

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Permian Desert

Primitive forms and highly faulted, dynamic geology from the Permian Age are building blocks of the Virgin River Gorge.

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Hoodoos To Red Butte

A maze of colorful sandstone hoodoos point the way to Red Butte

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Seafood

An Alaskan Grizzly catches a fish

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Kanarraville Narrows HIking

A hiker enjoys a relaxing walk through cold water on a hot day.

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Bomber Pass

Bomber Pass is simply a low point in a thin ridge of high cliffs that allows you to descend by rope onto the Bomber Glacier

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Mormon Mountains from the Beaver Dams

Looking towards the Mormon Mountains from the slopes of the Beaver Dams. Until a fire burned it down a few years ago there was a thick Joshua Tree Forest here on these slopes.

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Kanarraville Narrows

Kanarraville Creek is much smaller than the Virgin River but shares nearby headwaters and cuts through some of the same rock.

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Sand Crab 2

The coast might not quite be clear...

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Homer Spit

Sunset over Kachemak Bay. The Homer spit is 4 miles long and usually bustling with activity.

Nabesna Mid Glacial Lake

This lake is a new phenomenon that was only 2 summers old by the time i came across it. I think what is happening is that the downward side of the lake is a small ridge and the glacier has lost enough mass that it can no longer ride over the top of it, halting it's forward movement. But, there could also be an ice dam somewhere in the area.