Do you remember your first visit to a national park, that feeling that you were viewing a landscape so much bigger than anything you had seen before? It’s grandeur was awe-inspiring, enhancing your sense of wonder.

We all seek something special from these beautiful landscapes. This summer millions of people from around the world will be visiting national parks because these special places inspire us, refresh us and restore us with their natural beauty. 

Right now, our national parks face unprecedented threats from reduced staffing and funding for vital facilities. Some parks may be closed. Let’s support our national parks and sustain them for future generations.

Five years in-the-making, A curated time-lapse and still photography collection of clouds filmed in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and combined with original music by National Geographic photographer / composer Richard Olsenius.  Designed for those in search of unusual and emotional moments to enhance their mindfulness and well-being.

By Richard Olsenius

As a photographer who spent years covering rural America, I never saw it coming, the “great divide,” that chasm between urban and rural, liberal and conservative, the loss of civility and social norms that we all grew up with.

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