The sweeping color of sea and sky, blue is a common thread in nature.
Over the centuries, the hue has come to represent calm, cold, mysticism, and sadness.
A homey-looking igloo lights up the stark landscape on a cold night in the Canadian Arctic.
These temporary shelters were commonly used by indigenous peoples in the frigid North American Arctic.
Ice, seen from below, covers the surface of the Arctic's Beaufort Sea. The sea is found north of Alaska and Canada.
Bathed in blue light, a gray wolf peers through the misty landscape of Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. West.
The animals were successfully reintroduced to the park in the mid-1990s after an absence of nearly seven decades.
The massive bulk of Garibaldi Glacier slowly spills into Garibaldi Fjord in Tierra del Fuego—the archipelago at the southern tip of South America. The aquatic endpoint of such a glacier is known as a terminus.
Intricate blue tiles adorn the walls of a large Iranian mosque and mirror a clear sky that beckons the faithful to the sunny courtyard.
The mosque's many arches are a prominent feature of Islamic architecture.
A veiled Nepali woman, covered head-to-toe in shades of blue, pauses to rest in a colorful doorway
in one of the small Himalayan hill towns found in Nepal's Anapurna region.
A group of chinstrap penguins lines the edge of an iceberg adrift in Antarctic waters.
Chinstraps are among the most abundant penguins, and some colonies live on floating icebergs.
A thick, swirling school of blackfin barracuda plies the blue waters off Sipadan Island, Malaysia.
The fish are formidable predators, but they sometimes gather in groups for protection against sharks higher up on the food chain.
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