Autumn color mingles with Red Rock Country sandstone in a lower section of Oak Creek Canyon. By Guy Schmickle
The Old Stomping Grounds
Havasu Canyon Our land is a mighty cathedral in color, full of sunshine and purple mountains and with big, lazy clouds hung in the sky like billowy windows to draw your eyes high toward Heaven.…
Summer sunlight pours into Marble Canyon, the upstream portion of Grand Canyon National Park, as the Colorado River flows over rocks. This spot is 41 miles downstream from Lees Ferry, considered the start of the Canyon’s 277-mile course. By Gary Ladd
Below The Rim
Even the Grand Canyon has an edge. Made of limestone and solid to the touch, the edge lies just beyond the aspen groves, past the shaded, damp places where alluringly red and poisonous mushrooms poke…
Photograph by Suzanne Mathia
Best Picture 2024
Grand Prize Stan Rose This wintry photograph, made in an aspen grove near Arizona Snowbowl in the San Francisco Peaks, evokes a feeling of wanting to be there, Photo…
An unidentified man poses in a cement plant at the site of Theodore Roosevelt Dam in a Walter J. Lubken photo from March 1905. The dam was completed six years later, creating Theodore Roosevelt Lake.
The Dam Photographer
Countless American photographers could be considered really famous — Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Annie Leibowitz and Dorothea Lange are just a few of them. One lesser-known photographer, though, had…
Elizabeth Compton Hegemann poses with two kachina plaques, one completed and one in progress, at the Hopi village of Oraibi in 1927. | Elizabeth Compton Hegemann
Towering Figure
During their brief marriage in the 1920s, writer and photographer Elizabeth Compton Hegemann and her husband, Michael Harrison, lived on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, where Harrison worked as…
Sean Parker happened to be leading a Milky Way photography workshop near San Manuel, northeast of Tucson, the night the aurora borealis appeared in Arizona. He made this photo at about 1 a.m.
Oh, What A Night!
Editor’s Note: On the evening of May 10, at 3:54 p.m. Arizona time, the National Weather Service observed conditions resulting from an extreme geomagnetic storm in outer space, in which electrons…
A.E. Douglass extracts a core sample from a tree on Mount Lemmon, in the Tucson area’s Santa Catalina Mountains, in the mid-1940s. | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona
Tree Cheers For Andrew Douglass
A rainy winter day in Tucson is as good as any to stay inside and explore the Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries. I pull on a latex glove and pick up a bundle of spindly…
Shadows cloak the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley in a sunset view from Hunts Mesa. By Larry Lindahl
High Ground
Summer wildflowers thrive on a slope on the east side of the San Francisco Peaks, near Flagstaff. The Peaks, the remains of an eroded stratovolcano, are topped by 12,633…