Photograph by Joel Hazelton
Ancient Runes?
In the high-desert grasslands of South-eastern Arizona, a fertile wine country gives way to a small range of low-coned mountains near the tiny community of Elgin. It is here, in the unpretentious…
Photograph by Jill Richards
Ben's Bells Project
Be kind. The message is simple. And at the Ben’s Bells Project, it’s the driving force behind what the organization does every day.   “I think [it’s important] even more so now, because there is so…
Photograph by Derek von Briesen
Spanish Accent
Architecture is more than artful shelter. Architecture is culture, one of the most fundamental ways we express who we are. Architecture is our history, our mythology and our aspirations, all gathered…
Photograph by Gary Ladd
Troubled Water
You may have questions. Why would we be out on Lake Powell in late winter? Isn’t the lake extraordinarily low? Has anything interesting been revealed by the low water? The answers are interlocking:…
Photograph by Dawn Kish
Images From An Illustrious Camera
In the photo above, boats from photographer Dawn Kish’s Lake Powell expedition are moored across from Hite Marina along a section of the lake where the Colorado River is flowing once again. Andy…
Photograph by Laurence Parent
Long Stories Short
LAURENCE PARENT “My daughter, a friend and I visited this Tonto National Forest ruin in late October, hoping for fall color in the maples. After camping one night and…
Photograph by Tom Bean
The Foggiest Idea
Shrouded by layers of fog and clouds, the San Francisco Peaks greet the day’s first light. The Peaks, the remains of an eroded stratovolcano, are topped by 12,633-foot Humphreys Peak, Arizona’s…
Photograph by George Stocking
The Dammed Good Lakes of the Salt River
From time to time, the people of Phoenix realize they’re living in an aquaculture empire. Flocks of blackbirds wheel over canals that lace the city, and the air in certain neighborhoods smells…