Classic Scenes

CLASSIC SCENES OF A TIMELESS LAND

CLASSICS SERVE AS STANDARDS of excellence that are both traditional and enduring. All this and much more is inherent in the photographic works that grace the following pages.Here are scenes shot by master photographers that through the years have enraptured, delighted, awed, and sometimes maddened readers of Arizona Highways.

Steve Alterman captures a waterfall in the Grand Canyon. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument once more comes alive in a photo by Jack Dykinga. An image by LeRoy DeJolie appears to be of a long ago seashore now frozen in sandstone. The sand dunes of Monument Valley embrace Totem Pole and Yeibichai rocks in a shot by Chuck Lawsen. The mystery of the Superstition Mountains is caught in a cloudscaped scene by Steve Bruno.

(PRECEDING PANEL, PAGES 12 AND 13) An Arizona sunset epitomizes the scenic beauty that attracts visitors from around the world. Here sunset rays illuminate a passing rainstorm and the ridges below the Grand Canyon's Cape Royal.

(LEFT) Wind-sculpted sand dunes dominate the approach to Totem Pole and Yeibichai Mesa in Monument Valley.

(RIGHT) With its countless canyons, Lake Powell's long coastline offers privacy and solitude no matter how many boaters show up.

CLASSIC SCENES

(PRECEDING PANEL, PAGES 16 AND 17) Sunset silhouettes ocotillos and saguaros in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

(RIGHT) Waterfalls born of the Grand Canyon's Deer Creek splash into a plunge pool.

CLASSIC SCENES

(PRECEDING PANEL, PAGES 20 AND 21) Below the Ajo Mountains in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a variety of vegetation flourishes. Here clumps of teddy bear cholla and flowering brittlebush share space with the monument's namesake cactus.

(LEFT) Spider Rock towers above the floor of Canyon de Chelly.

(RIGHT) A winter storm loosens its hold on the Superstition Mountains.

CLASSIC SCENES