Ben Alcocer Photography
A dead camelthorn stands on a cracked white pan with the sun flaring through its bare branches, long shadows reaching toward the camera and an orange dune behind.
Acacia Flare
Inside a glacier, a rippled blue ice tunnel narrows toward a bright opening, its floor covered in broken ice and grit.
Glacial Passage
A river loops in a tight horseshoe around a flat-topped butte far below the canyon rim at sunset.
Colorado Curve
Rows of eroded badland ridges in pale yellow, pink and mauve fill the frame, dark channels running between them.
Sherbertscape
The walls of a narrow slot canyon curve overhead, banded in horizontal stripes above a smooth sand floor.
Supple Sandstone
Four wind-shaped trees stand spaced across open grass, their crowns fading into heavy fog.
Four Elders
Two weathered rock pillars stand like a gateway in a flat blue sea, waves blurred to mist around their bases.
Gates of the Sea
Water rushes seaward in radial streaks toward two rock clusters, a thin crescent moon hanging in the pink dusk sky above.
Spring Tide
Low over a pitted coquina outcrop in shallow surf, foam curling around its edges, an orange sunrise on the horizon behind.
Coquina Gold
A wide fan of water spreads down a moss-covered wall behind a fallen log, a small cascade tumbling through mossy rock in front.
Greenwood Veil
Several ribbon waterfalls fall into a narrow green gorge and converge in a stream running fast over moss-covered boulders.
Convergence
A pale blue river runs hard over mossy rock, a smaller waterfall visible upstream through the trees.
Upstream
From inside a rock alcove, the Milky Way stands over distant canyon buttes, a low ring of stacked stones on the floor in front.
Ancient Skylight
A jagged dark mountain massif sits low on the horizon beneath a sky of pink and magenta streaked cloud, mirrored in wet sand below.
Vermilion Sky
A still lake runs out to distant snow peaks, a long snow-covered ridge closing the right side under pale blue light.
Cold Approach
Ranks of layered canyon buttes recede to a flat horizon in cool dawn light, a rock outcrop at the left edge.
Expanse
Three rounded hoodoos stand on a sandstone pedestal against pink and blue dusk cloud.
Sentinels
Eroded badland hills carry mineral colour in bands — turquoise, pink, rust and tan — with no sky in the frame.
Desert Pigments
Rock pinnacles stand on a green ridge above a sea loch, distant hills fading under a heavy grey cloud ceiling.
Raasay Beacon
Three thin crest lines catch gold light across soft grey dune slopes, everything else in flat shade.
Sun Kissed
Banded red and white sandstone swells and domes under a pink and violet dusk sky, the nearest slab striped like grain.
Aeolian Echo
Pink and purple dusk cloud sits over a broad mountain and a stand of spruce, stones visible through the still lake in front.
Tranquility
A jagged volcanic plug rises from flat scrub, warm-lit, with the Milky Way standing almost vertically above it.
Azimuth
Two waterfalls drop between mossy basalt walls into a turquoise river that rushes over rock toward the camera.
Cobalt Cascades
Four sharp rock spires stand in a pale, mist-blurred sea, their bases dissolved by the long exposure.
Tethys Spires
Two slender sea stacks and a flatter third rise past a foreground of large rounded boulders, the water between them blurred to mist.
Standing Tall
An aerial of a braided silver river winding through dark volcanic hills toward a pointed peak and a pale lake beyond.
Terra Incognita
Steam rises off a geothermal creek winding through scrub toward snow-dusted peaks under a deep blue, star-flecked sky.
First Breath
Seawater pours over the lip of a hole in a basalt shelf while surf swirls across the surrounding rock under a pastel dusk sky.
The Well
A teal lake lies between dark forested slopes below a snow-streaked peak, the valley receding into cloud.
First Snow
Tall pine trunks frame a gap in the forest where a two-tier waterfall drops down a distant cliff.
Ponderosa Window
Backwash streams toward the camera across mossy rock while a low sun flares between three dark sea stacks under pink cloud.
Corona
An arc of green aurora curves over a cone-shaped mountain while three small waterfalls drop over rock in the foreground.
Explosions in the Sky
A gnarled laurel tree spreads over cropped grass while a second, smaller tree stands half dissolved in fog behind it.
Fog's Embrace
Star trails streak in parallel lines above a red butte, the whole scene repeated in still water in the foreground.
Starfall
Black sand dunes tufted with dry grass run toward a jagged dark mountain massif under a blue sky streaked with cloud.
Solstheim
Seen from above, a glacial river braids green and gold across black sand before meeting a white line of surf.
Terminus