Photographer Robb Hirsch captures Nature's elements against a jaw-dropping backdrop: granite monoliths wrapped in mist, famous falls tumbling earthward, giant sequoias reaching high into the air. Each month is enriched by these large-format, full-color images of landscape wonders, both world-renowned and lesser known:

• Lower Cathedral Rock and the Gunsight
• El Capitan Reflected in the Merced River
• Storm Clearing over Half Dome
• Yosemite Falls and Spring Flood
• Bridalveil Fall
• Yosemite Valley
• Rainbow over Mount Dana and Mount Gibbs
• Matthes Crest
• Mount Conness and Lower Young Lake
• Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias
• El Capitan and the Merced River
• Half Dome from Glacier Point