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Q. I was told many years ago, by a photography student and friend of mine, that a 50/50 sky-to-land ratio in landscape photographs was considered bad composition.
I haven’t seen this advice anywhere…

Before I became an editor at the magazine, I’d shoot photo stories for Arizona Highways. I wasn’t a “scenic” shooter. Instead, I gravitated toward those stories that involved people and lifestyles.…

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"I’ve experienced it by boat and by land. And personally, there’s more reverence in being able to do it on foot. [When] you go by boat, you miss…

IF CON SLOBODCHIKOFF hadn’t developed an allergy to darkling beetles, he might not have made fascinating discoveries about animal communication.
As a professor at Northern Arizona University,…

NOT MANY PEOPLE find their purpose and passion at age 8. But Sierra Blair-Coyle is not like many people.
A rock-climbing wall at a local mall gave a young Blair-Coyle her first taste of climbing in…

JK: We’re seeing a lot more submissions made with drones. You’re a licensed drone pilot. What made you get into this?
LP: It was a combination of my interest and the demand from clients. In Texas,…

It’s a Monday afternoon in August 2020, and rain is hitting the Black River in drops as big as bullets. Willows choke the trail that leads to the river. On the slope across the water, the grass and…

It begins not long into the clear sky of morning: a puff of bone-white, then another, and another. By noon, the sky over the desert towers like Greek columns. Electrical violence wells toward the…