Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
In a polarized world, where everyone has an opinion about everything everywhere and all at once, prairie dogs are rodents as Rorschach test. If you focus-grouped prairie dogs, participants would…
Photograph by Amy S. Martin
When Grand Canyon prospector Ben Beamer traveled to Denver in July 1892, it was big news. The Denver Republican interviewed him about his hermit-like existence at the bottom of the Canyon, where he…
Photograph by Paul Gill
Claire Curran Amid maples displaying deep red hues, aspens begin to don their autumn gold on the Mogollon Rim. This photo was made near Forest Road 115, which is…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
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
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
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
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
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…