Photograph by Bob Bradshaw
The touch of Midas is felt throughout the highlands at this time of the year and the Season’s touch has turned much of the green to gold. Is there anything in all of Nature so radiant as an aspen…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
If you were to choose a bug’s life, being a butterfly would definitely be the way to go. For one thing, there’s variety. You start off as a caterpillar — cute and even fuzzy, not creepy and slimy…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
What a glorious racket it must have been. What an incredible clamor filled a Chiricahua Mountains forest one August day in 1904, when a flock of as many as 1,000 thick-billed parrots (Rhynchopsitta…
Photographs: Sharlot Hall Museum
To tell the story of artist and photographer Kate Thomson Cory, you start in the middle, not at the beginning. In 1905, Cory was 44, less than halfway through what would turn out to be a long, long…
Photograph by Michael Wilson
GRAND PRIZE WINNER Michael Wilson Soft autumn light lends a dreamlike quality to a streamside scene in Oak Creek Canyon, near Sedona. “Robert Stieve, our editor,…
Photograph by Steven Meckler
From the street, this vintage Tucson house is typical of its era: low-slung, rustic in style and sporting an inviting porch that runs the entire length of its front façade. It’s not necessarily…
Photograph by Larry Lindahl
LAURENCE PARENT Ragged Top rises from a sea of saguaro cactuses at Ironwood Forest National Monument, northwest of Tucson. The rhyolite peak, a popular climbing…
Photograph by Jeff Kida
Reliable water in the desert, the only such oasis for miles around, has given Pipe Spring a rich history that includes Indigenous peoples, Brigham Young and John Wesley Powell. The presence of…