Behind the Image
Paul Nicklen
Sep 12 2024
The Sand Dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses
Weaving like a giant snake through the coastal lowlands was the long body of the Black River, its inky waters carving through the dunes to join the Parnaíba River in the northeast. It was almost too beautiful to look at directly.
Paul Nicklen
Sep 01 2024
Caught in a Snowstorm with a Wild Puma
Pumas in Chile are considered a protected species, and hunting them is mostly prohibited. As a result, some of the pumas within the area have adjusted to going about their lives in the presence of people, ignoring them entirely.
Paul Nicklen
Jul 25 2024
Hundreds of Sharks on a Grouper Moon
With the full moon filling the starry sky overhead, we pulled on our masks and slipped down into the pitch-black depths.
Paul Nicklen
Jan 21 2024
Lifelong Ohana
To have the courage and strength of heart to remain generous even through hardship, to ensure everyone has a parking spot and shady place to sit — that is the aloha spirit.
Paul Nicklen
Nov 17 2023
Icy Landscapes
When photographing ice, the creative possibilities are limitless.
Paul Nicklen
Oct 11 2022
Delta Rising
It is beautiful, but this is a terrible beauty. For the story of the Colorado River since the 1950s has been a story of how an overburdened river no longer reaches the sea.
Paul Nicklen
Sep 15 2022
Golden Bond
What is simple always interests me. Every year, during the annual salmon run, brown bears emerge from the mists in the glacial peaks that ring southwestern Alaska’s wild coastline and riverine valleys.
Paul Nicklen
Mar 19 2022
Dawn Patrol
BC orcas are aerobatic; they breach all the time. Orcas of Norway are rarely, if ever, seen leaping out of the water.
Paul Nicklen
Dec 17 2021
Gathering of Unicorns
Sensitive and shy, narwhals will retreat the moment they detect a stranger's presence in their home.
Paul Nicklen
Oct 10 2021
Polar Wisdom
There are no guarantees in the world of assignment photography.
Paul Nicklen
Aug 14 2021
Suspended Grace
People are more likely to care about the ocean if they first fall in love with the charismatic megafauna that call it home.