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The United States is a vast and diverse country that offers a plethora of stunning photography locations. From the rugged coastlines of Maine to the majestic mountains of Colorado, the country is home to a wide range of landscapes that are perfect for capturing breathtaking images. The iconic landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Statue of Liberty in New York City, and the Grand Canyon in Arizona are just a few of the many popular photography destinations in the United States.

Photography of United States

Yosemite
Tunnel View
by Aniket Deole

I think the best time to visit Yosemite is February. There is still some snow around the valley. The trees and the snow shine mystically because of the sun rays through the patchy clouds. Certainly a sight to behold.

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Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point
by Maurizio Fontana

USA 2011 - Death Valley

Delicate Arch sunset
Delicate Arch
by Maurizio Fontana

USA 2011 - Arches

Sunset on Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan from Brooklyn Bridge
by AG PHOTOGRAPHE

Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan, New York

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Seattle
Seattle from Jose Rizal Bridge
by Daniel Cheong

Shot from Dr. Jose Rizal Bridge, a very popular vantage point.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be…
Delicate Arch
by Sandeep Thomas
  • Douglas Adams.

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Today's picture is another old image from our trip to southern Utah’s beautiful Arches National Park. As a landscape icon, the delicate arch requires no introduction, it's usually featured in all its glory on almost all tourism-related documents created by Utah and even the United States travel brochures. The day we decided to hike up there, we had some beautiful light as the sun went down both on the arch and the snow-capped mountains in the background.

The hike to get to the location is a short but involves following a trail that mostly lays over a large flat rock which is devoid of many markers even in broad daylight. A thing to keep in mind if you plan to return after the sun goes down like we did. We were there in the middle of winter on a moonless night and my plan was to track my hike using the all trails app and then follow the path back to the car. We kept our iPhones charged and were completely confident that we will be able to get back as we stayed to take some beautiful star-filled nightscapes. Regrettably, we failed to account for the thinness obsession phone makers have these days that fails to give the phone batteries any cold protection. As soon as we took our phones out to check the paths, the phone battery went from mid 80% to zero and the phones died and became unresponsive. We were left to trace back our way in complete darkness without any way to identify the hiking trail and while wandering we met a couple of other hikers who were in the same predicament. Fortunately, we found a way to get off the rock soon and was able to get back to the marked trail to the parking lot. We learned a valuable lesson that day regarding preparedness in the desert and how quickly a situation can turn against you.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing…
Yaquina Head Lighthouse
by Sandeep Thomas
  • Eugene Delacroix.

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Another shot of the Yaquina head light. I am still amazed by the number of different compositions that were possible at this location. I took this shot while we were walking away from the lighthouse using the road as a leading line to the lighthouse.

Hope everyone like it..

You don't take a photograph, you make it…
Horsetail Firefalls
by Sandeep Thomas
  • Ansel Adams.

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Today’s shot is an interesting one. In the winter of 2014, my wife and I had a chance to visit Yosemite Valley over a long weekend. The goal was to try and get some classic shots of Yosemite Valley in all its winter glory. Unfortunately, the year was extraordinarily dry, and we didn’t see even a bit of snow. But as we drove around the park, we saw park rangers putting up new parking signs on some locations. A quick chat reminded us that it was the time window for the firefalls phenomenon. If you have never heard about the firefalls, it’s a tiny waterfall within the Yosemite Valley where the setting sun lights just the waterfall in warm light against the towering granite walls. Firefalls only happens for two weeks in February and only when there are no clouds on the horizon. In the past, they used to pour hot embers from the top of Glacier Point to the valley 3,000 feet below. From a distance, it appeared as a glowing waterfall. But that practice is no more, and you are dependent on nature to provide the show.

On a whim, we decided to check it out and assumed an excellent position early enough waiting for the sunset to approach, There were a lot of people visiting the park for just this event, and we all quickly settled down waiting for the perfect light. We didn’t get a good firefall event that day as some clouds moved into the horizon, diffusing the intensity of the sun. I was still grappling with my photography at the time, so I didn’t believe that I got a good shot. I chalked it up as a bad day and moved on. Recently I was looking at the images realized that there were quite a few useful ones due to my bracketing habit. Now my ability to process an image has improved drastically from 2014, and I was able to select a faster exposure that showed more intense colors. Lesson learned, expose for your subject than for the whole scene, and don’t be afraid of shadows in your images.

Urban Light - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Urban Light - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
by Joao Eduardo Figueiredo

Urban Light is a 2008 large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden that stands in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The installation consists of 202 restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of them once lit the streets of Southern California. The cast iron street lamps are of 17 styles, which vary depending on the municipality that commissioned them. They range from about 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters), are painted a uniform grey and placed, forest-like, in a near grid. The lights are solar powered and switched on at dusk. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Susan Freudenheim described the restored lamps as displaying "elaborate floral and geometric patterns" at the base, with "fluted shafts and glass globes that cap them...meticulously cleaned, painted and refurbished to create an exuberant glow. (From Wikipedia)

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ABOVE ALL
Wolf Point Riverwalk
by Nenad Spasojevic

“You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” – Paulo Coelho

HOUSE OF GOD
Queen Of All Saints
by Nenad Spasojevic

Another interior shot, only this time in color. This basilica is one of my latest accidental discoveries. It is located just outside the downtown area and it is a perfect place for taking some interior shot for those who like doing that. Since the temperatures are sky high I like taking some indoors location a killing time time during the day. What do you think?

Multiple Sunbeams
Upper Antelope Canyon

Upper Antelope Canyon, Page, AZ.

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Lower Manhattan At Night
Manhattan over the poles of Old Pier 1
by Jakub Slováček

Skyline of Lower Manhattan at night from Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Dead Horse Point before Sunrise
Dead Horse Point
by Yi Jiang

Dead Horse Point State Park is a state park of Utah in the United States, featuring a dramatic overlook of the Colorado River and Canyonlands National Park.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it…
Pfeiffer Beach
by Sandeep Thomas
  • Augustus Hare.

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One more shot from Pfeiffer State Beach. Took this one as I reached the beach when I got about 2 minutes to shoot the bridge head on without anyone walking through the frame. I like this shot a little better than the one where the sun is setting through the arch.

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Timetrap
Manhattan Bridge from Washington Street
by Nenad Spasojevic

Finally get my self around to finish editing this shot. Between the initial shot and the final edit it took me around 5 months. I went to this location 6 times while trying to figure out what to do with it. Shooting at nigh wasn't an option cause there is just to many light sources all around coming from many directions. I wasn't fortunate enough to catch the rainy day also. Since there is so many cars parked in the street I had to do something different to be able to hide them and make everything seamless in the final edit. While shooting in the city, I like to do that with this long exposure technique and use the car trails as leading lines as much as the cover for the distracting area. What do you think?

Orange October
San Francisco from Twin Peaks
by Andrew Kearns

San Francisco celebrates the Giants in the World Series. 12 images using a 400mm lens on a 5D mk2. Taken from twin peaks. This image is 2.6G of data. 24 inches by 72 inches at 300 DPI. I printed one and it looks amazing!

Half Dome from Tioga Pass
Olmsted Point
by David ruiz luna

Half Dome is a granite dome at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California. It is a well-known rock formation in the park, named for its distinct shape. One side is a sheer face while the other three sides are smooth and round, making it appear like a dome cut in half.The granite crest rises more than 1,444 m above the valley floor.

Tioga Pass Yosemite National Park, California, USA September 2016

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[Pier 14 During the Blue Hour]
Pier 14
by Milton Sun

Nikon D810 + AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm @ 24mm F/16, 30 sec, ISO-100. pano blended with 3 horizontal shots. (taken on 05-14-2016)

Las Vegas
Lake Bellagio...
by Enrica Fabriani

Espectáculo de música y agua en el lago del Hotel Bellagio.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it…
San Francisco from Treasure Island
by Sandeep Thomas
  • Sam Levenson.

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My wife and I lived in the Bay Area for about 6 months immediately after our marriage before finally settling in SoCal. During the six months stay we never ventured or explored any of San Francisco’s beautiful sights. We did Trips to wine country, San Diego, and Yosemite but no trips were made to explore the city where we lived.

We always thought we will be living in the bay area so there was no real urgency in the plans, but we got jobs in LA. So last Thursday was my birthday and we decided to head to San Francisco and give the new D850 some workout. This view is of the San Francisco skyline as seen from the Treasure Island view point. The wind was pummeling us during the shoot and I had to hold down my gitzo traveler lightweight tripod to get a steady shot.

Fishing Pier at Dawn
Pier
by PZ Sunrays

Before sunrise, water was clam and dark sky color gradually got brighter with warm colors. Those warm colors were reflected onto calm water. The entire scene told me that it would be a beautiful and relaxing day. It did!

Hocus Virga Pocus
Hocus Virga Pocus

There’s something magical about Martin’s Beach. Perhaps it has to do with the wizard’s hat shaped sea-stack just off the shore of the beach. Or...

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Horseshoe Bend - Colorado
Horseshoe Bend
by Maurizio Fontana

USA 2011 - Colorado River

Cloud Gate (The Bean) - Millennium Park, Chicago
Cloud Gate
by Joao Eduardo Figueiredo

Sculpture by Anish Kapoor

Mesquite Dunes
Mesquite Dunes
by Jeremy Bishop

I found myself trekking through the dunes in the middle of 33MPH winds. It was early in the morning when the winds were less violent, but when the sunrise hit the winds took a drastic change for the worse.

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Manhattan at sunset - New York - Cityscape photography
View from Top of the Rock - South
by Giuseppe Milo

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Love is the greatest refreshment in life…
Yosemite Valley View
by Sandeep Thomas
  • Pablo Picasso.

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One of my favorite locations in all of California is the Valley view outlook point at Yosemite National Park. I have posted many photos of this location which provides a stunning view of the majestic El Capitan to the left, the stunning Sentinels with Bridal Veil Falls to the right and the serene Merced River as foreground interest. It’s pretty tough to beat a view as spectacular as this but the real reason I fell in love with this location is the fact that I always got amazing light whenever I was at this spot. This was my go-to spot when the weather was bad or if we are providing a quick drive-by for our relatives or friends who are visiting.

This photo was taken in the past summer when we did a quick tour of Yosemite, As usual, the golden hour kind of coincided with our stop and I managed to get some good shots.

IRIE
Cloud Gate
by Nenad Spasojevic

Monochrome anyone? It’s been a while since I posted something in BW and I was craving that feeling all this time. I will use this opportunity to throw a new idea out there. Since I’m working in a background on a group of monochrome edits for a while I’m contemplating on starting another channel on Instagram dedicated only to my BW work. I just want to separate the work so both feeds have a cohesive look and the similar theme. I’m leaving on a month long trip in a few days and I will take that time to think hard on this subject, I would also love to hear your thoughts. I’m excited for so many reasons and I hope that I will manage to come back with some great photography. While away I might not be able to be as active as I want to on social media platforms so hopefully we can continue this journey, with the same excitement and intensity, when I come back. What do you think?

Sand Dunes
Mesquite Dunes
by Yi Jiang

Death Valley National Park

Fiery San Francisco
San Francisco from Treasure Island
by Jiri Hajek

After an overcast day, late afternoon sky started to clear on the west, which resulted in a phenomenal sunset.

Thanks to all Phoide contributors to United States!
Most notably Sandeep Thomas, George Kurzik, Andrey Sulitskiy, Nenad Spasojevic, Bonnie Moreland, Patrick Clancy, MURALI NARAYANAN and Yi Jiang.