PHOTOGRAPHY

Photo of the Day

Photographer: Arlene Waller

Photo Contest

It's time to take your best shot and enter the 16th annual Arizona Highways Photo Contest.

Photo Editor Forum

Have a question about photography? Email it to us, and our photo editor will try to answer it in a future issue.

Photography Workshops

Arizona Highways PhotoScapes continues a long and distinguished tradition of photographic education.

Global Snapshots

Send us a snapshot of someone you know posing with our magazine, and we'll post it on our site.

In Depth

On the way to the desert oasis of Quitobaquito Springs, Puerto Blanco Drive parallels the border with Mexico for about 13 miles through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. West of Lukeville and the Mexican town of Sonoyta, the border fence, designed as a pedestrian barrier, undulates up a hillside studded with saguaros before ending abruptly. The high mesh fence of oxidized steel then gives way to a low rail-and-post barricade intended to prevent vehicles from crossing into the United States while allowing wildlife to pass through.

Barely 80 degrees, it’s a surprisingly cool day for early May, with broken clouds filtering the sun. A steady breeze blows, refreshing and unlike the blast-furnace-like gusts that often begin by this time in spring. 

The Sonoran Desert is at its most beautiful. The wildflowers of earlier in the season are gone, but blooming paloverdes fill the gaps between the saguaros, recasting miles of the tawny expanses as a garden of yellow. The saguaros are just beginning to bloom, the tips of their arms thick with mixed clusters of buds and...

Continue Reading
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert

History, Nature & Culture

History

Championships are rare in Arizona. Arizona State and the University of Arizona have won a few. And the Arizona Diamondbacks won a World Series in 2001, but that wasn’t the...

Photograph by Bob Markow

Nature

Hollywood horror films have given tarantulas a bad reputation as bloodthirsty monsters on eight legs, but these fuzzy arachnids are really just humble hermits. There are more...

Photograph by Peggy Coleman

Culture

When I graduated from college, my mother gave me a blanket, a blanket she had promised me for years. It was my grandmother’s, she said. The blanket was forest green, with...

Photograph by Craig Smith

OUR SPONSORS

One of the best reasons to visit Yuma in the heat of the summer is the access to water. With a river literally running...

There are countless adventures in store for you when you visit Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona. If you think Arizona is all...

The community was founded in 1880 and quickly became a thriving urban center, driven by a booming mining industry that...

From the river to the rails, Clarkdale shines like a true Arizona gem teeming with world-class attractions. Nestled in...