Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
Leader of the Pack
Bailey Dilgard has a dead porcupine in the bed of her truck. That’s one of the things I notice when I accompany her down a remote, rutted road in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests south of…
Photograph by Randy Prentice
The Ultimate Arizona Road Trip
Editor’s Note: It’s been almost 60 years since we first did a story like this. The original, which was titled When the Open Road Calls, ran in our September 1960 issue. The tour that year began in…
Photograph by Adam Schallau
Let There Be Light
Edward Abbey once wrote, “Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.” The first time I read it, I understood…
Photograph by Jessica Fridrich
Best Picture 2023
GRAND PRIZE WINNER Jessica Fridrich A stationary monsoon storm at sunset provides an unusual combination of light, reflection and shadows amid the textured “brain rock…
Photograph by Richard Maack
Brownie Points
My first photograph is also my first memory. I made the image in 1951, when I was 3 years old, with a Brownie Target Six-20 camera. I remember it vividly: I was on a walk with my parents on a brisk…
Photograph by Albert Allard
William the Conqueror
It’s early March, and I’m on the phone with William Albert Allard. He’s reading me what he once wrote about Arizona rancher Henry Gray, whom Allard had met while traveling across Arizona: “We sat in…
Photograph by Gurinder Singh
Sky Islands
Arizona is 99.7 percent dry land and lacks an ocean coastline, so around here, islands are hard to come by. There are buttes that jut from Lake Powell, Lake Mead and some of the state’s other man-…
Photograph by Jeff Maltzman
Down South
Gurinder Singh Delicate wildflowers surround an alligator juniper in Gardner Canyon, which is on the east side of the Santa Rita Mountains. The canyon, named for a…