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Portfolio: Long Views to Savor

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Photographer Jerry Sieve has gathered favorite scenic views for 28 years.

Featured in the February 2006 Issue of Arizona Highways

In a western view from Massai Point, a brilliant sunset warms Chiricahua National Monument's Wonderland of Rocks. The vista beyond comprises Sulphur Springs Valley and the Dragoon Mountains.
In a western view from Massai Point, a brilliant sunset warms Chiricahua National Monument's Wonderland of Rocks. The vista beyond comprises Sulphur Springs Valley and the Dragoon Mountains.

THE LONG VIEW

A Veteran Photographer Samples Some of Arizona's Best Vistas

A PORTFOLIO BY JERRY SIEVE

Why do we always toil upward, driven by the compulsion to reach the top where the earth drops away and we teeter at the focal point of the fisheye lens of our imaginations? Certainly, the 100-mile view from the top of the mountain has always drawn photographers, who sidelight and save our sighs and hopes. Perhaps such a view shrinks our problems to proper size. Perhaps we are secretly reassured to know we can spot the stealthy approach of an enemy still 50 miles off. Or perhaps it is the single place from which we can get the best view of creation. In any case, photographer Jerry Sieve has been gathering such long views for 28 years, and we present here some of his favorites, from the top of a 3,000-foot-tall cliff in the Grand Canyon to the Mogollon Rim. Study the view until you either solve the riddle of our compulsion or are overcome by the urge to toil toward the top yourself.

EMERALD PROSPECT

VERTICAL DROP