Photograph by Albert Allard
William the Conqueror
It’s early March, and I’m on the phone with William Albert Allard. He’s reading me what he once wrote about Arizona rancher Henry Gray, whom Allard had met while traveling across Arizona: “We sat in…
Photograph by Jack Dykinga
Q&A: Jack Dykinga
JK: Both of these photographs show the same subject, but they were made using different shutter speeds. Which do you prefer? JD: When I was photographing this great blue heron, using a fast shutter…
Photograph by Paul Markow
Emilia Mickevicius
A museum show is part storytelling and part conversation. At least, that’s how Emilia Mickevicius sees it. And curating one is a bit like planning a dinner party.  Take, for example, a gallery she…
Campers look at a starry sky from beneath a canvas tent.
Under Canvas Lake Powell? DarkSky Certified
The following information is from a press release distributed by Under Canvas.  Under Canvas announced recently that its Under Canvas Lake Powell - Grand Staircase property is the first-ever DarkSky…
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Biden Designates Grand Canyon National Monument
During a visit to Red Butte, southeast of Tusayan, on August 8, President Joe Biden issued a new national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon region. Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni –…
Photograph by Paul Markow
The Man Who Audaciously Asked Ansel Adams for All of His Photographs
Back in the summer of 1977, John Schaefer would sometimes slip out of his Tucson office in the middle of the workday, drive the dozen-odd miles to Mission San Xavier del Bac and spend a couple of…
Photograph by Gurinder Singh
Sky Islands
Arizona is 99.7 percent dry land and lacks an ocean coastline, so around here, islands are hard to come by. There are buttes that jut from Lake Powell, Lake Mead and some of the state’s other man-…
Photograph by Jeff Maltzman
Down South
Gurinder Singh Delicate wildflowers surround an alligator juniper in Gardner Canyon, which is on the east side of the Santa Rita Mountains. The canyon, named for a…