Wildflowers thrive amid twisted tree limbs along California's Big Sur Coast. Stretching 42 miles (67.6 kilometers) along the Pacific from Carmel to San Simeon, the Big Sur Coast dazzles visitors with its craggy cliffs and dramatic ocean drop-offs.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Big Sur: California's Elemental Coast," August 2000, National Geographic magazine)