My favorite photos of 2018

A selection of my favorite photos from the year. Travels to Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico and trailer trips in California.

A rising sun creaes stunning shadows from desert clouds. Alabama Hills, California.
Location portraits in my garage and on a boat in the middle of the ocean.
Ernie Brooks II went scuba diving at 84 years old.
Incredible color in rocks. Denali National Park, Alaska.
Got close to a manta in Hawaii. Lucky to see her at the surface, and at sunset.
Big Island of Hawaii.
I smile every time I see this image. Looks like he’s taking a selfie with the whale shark. Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico.
Some of the largest mantas in the world come here.
Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico.
Two of my favorites: a wildlife seascape at Socorro Island and a curious marmot in
Sequoia National Park.

Ralph Clevenger

Ralph Cle­venger grew up on the coast of North Africa and began div­ing in the waters of the Mediter­ranean Sea at the age of 7 with his father. He even­tu­ally went on to study zool­ogy at San Diego State Uni­ver­sity and worked as a diver/biologist for the Scripps Insti­tu­tion of Oceanog­ra­phy in La Jolla, Cal­i­for­nia before attend­ing Brooks Insti­tute of Pho­tog­ra­phy. He holds a BS degree in zool­ogy and a BA degree in pho­tog­ra­phy. Ralph is the author of Pho­tograph­ing Nature, pub­lished by New Riders.
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