Van Miller

Designer boulder, about the size of a golf cart, a patchwork of granite and metasedimentary rock. Black Giant Lake, The Black Divide, Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park, The Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA. Photo ©Van Miller

The geology of the upper Goddard Canyon is a jumble of smooth granite and badly deformed metamorphic rock. Check out the striations on peak 12,034. This area is  part of the Independence Dike Swarm, a blend of plutonic and metamorphic rocks.  Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA. Photo ©Van Miller

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Grand Place, Brussels, Belgium. Shot for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. ©Van Miller

Long evening shadow in the San Francisco financial district. ©Van Miller

Silhouetted cable car on Nob Hill in San Francisco. Shot for the BBC. Photo ©Van Miller

Fall color in The Watauga Reserve in The Southern Appalachians. Stone Mountain, Upper Unaka Mountains, Western Blue Ridge Mountains, Cherokee National Forest, East Tennessee, USA. ©Van Miller

Seven Gables Peak reflected in Little Bear Lake. Bear Lakes Basin, John Muir Wilderness, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA, ©Van Miller

Alpenglow on the Kings Kern Divide. Great Western Divide, Kings Canyon National Park, California. ©Van Miller

Fall colors on Hawk Hill in The Watauga Reserve. Cherokee National Forest, Western Blue Ridge Mountains, East Tennessee, USA. ©Van Miller

Fall colors in The Watauga Reserve. A 3,800 acre unprotected Wildlife Management Area in The Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee. ©Van Miller

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Evening light breaks through the clouds, saturating Charybdis, 13,091 feet, in The Ionian Basin. Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park a.k.a SEKI, Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, The Range of Light, California, USA. ©Van Miller

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