Church of the Good Shepherd

Credits: Thomas Young

An old stone church sits among the placid grasses of New Zealand’s South Island, a land known for its wide expanses of untouched land and vast farming outlets.

Iguaçu Falls

Credits: Frans Lanting

A wealth of water—up to 1.6 million gallons (6.1 million liters) a second—pours over Iguaçu Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina.

Meadows Park, Scotland

Credits: Mike Bascombe

Meadows Park in Edinburgh has its avenues lined with trees. This early morning shot was taken in especially thick fog as people walk through on their way to work.

San Luis Valley, Colorado

Credits: Jack Dykinga

Southwestern farmers have long shared community-operated waterways, or acequias, like the 150-year-old People’s Ditch in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.

Basalt Pinnacles, Scotland

Credits: Jim Richardson

On Skye’s Trotternish Peninsula, basalt pinnacles loom over the Sound of Raasay. Rising from the debris of an ancient landslide, they bear witness to the geologic upheavals that shaped these lands.

Sheep, Scotland

Credits: Jim Richardson

Tangles of seaweed lure a flock of sheep from Iona’s green slopes down to the beach for a mineral-rich graze. In Gaelic this stretch of coast is called Camas Cùil an t-Sàimh, the “bay at the back of the ocean.”

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