The Milky Way rising above the Teton Range and a dark mountain lake

David White · Photography

Out there.

Land, weather, night skies, and the people moving through them.

Grand Teton National Park · Wyoming

01 / On the ground

The shape of a place.

Horses grazing beneath autumn cottonwoods and snow-covered peaks in Grand Teton National Park — Grand Teton National Park · Wyoming

Sundial Peak reflected in a calm alpine lake — Sundial Peak · Wasatch Mountains, Utah

Shiprock rising beneath a break in a stormy sky — Shiprock · New Mexico

A rainbow spanning the rugged mountains and alpine basin below — Amethyst Basin · Uinta Mountains, Utah

A beached sailboat leaning toward the surf as two people walk along a hazy Florida shoreline — Destin · Florida

02 / After dark

Stay after dark.

The moon rising behind a dark ridge and silhouetted trees — Brighton · Wasatch Mountains, Utah

The Milky Way rising behind silhouetted trees at Washington Lake — Washington Lake · Uinta Mountains, Utah

Illuminated tents beneath the Milky Way and Nevado Salkantay — Nevado Salkantay · Peru

03 / In it

People make the scale real.

Rachel Engle climbing a rocky alpine ridge on the Pfeifferhorn — Rachel Engle · Pfeifferhorn, Wasatch Mountains, Utah

Brian Berec snowboarding through deep powder in Grizzly Gulch — Brian Berec · Grizzly Gulch, Wasatch Mountains, Utah

A group of children laughing and embracing in Malawi — Photographed during the World Education / USAID production · Malawi