Photograph by Steven Meckler
This Is Harder Than It Looks
What enigmatic inspiration or demon magic is it that lives in this tree — this arboreal delinquent, bristling with 2-inch thorns, that refuses to yield lumber that isn’t laced with crinkly crevices…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
They Like to Bee Alone
Do bees dream? That’s something Tucson-based pollination ecologist Stephen Buchmann likes to ponder. After more than four decades studying bee biology, he’s learned the insects likely have a…
Photograph by Jack Dykinga
Living in the Sticks
A family of Harris’ hawks (Parabuteo unicinctus) nest atop a saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) on Bureau of Land Management land near Oracle. The bird perched on the…
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
According to Custom
It was a cool, calm morning in June 1972. The sun had not yet risen behind the mesas that sit to the east of one of my family’s many homesteads on the Navajo Nation, a place we call Tsézhin…
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
Wildflowers Are in Style This Season
A Mexican goldpoppy (Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana) waits to unfurl its colorful petals. In the background are the blooms of a lupine (genus Lupinus), a type of…
Photograph by Bruce D. Taubert
Q&A: Bruce D. Taubert
JK: How did you get into working with Arizona’s wildlife, the main focus of your photography? BDT: I have a Ph.D. in aquatic biology, and after I earned my degree, I worked as a research scientist in…
Photograph by David Zickl
Dwarf Car Museum
I find Ernie Adams, signature green Fire King coffee mug in hand, at the Dwarf Car Museum when I arrive. Adams recently turned 82 but looks much younger, his 6-foot frame nearly as lean as in…
Photographs by Bob Markow
You Can Judge This Book By Its Cover
For more than four decades, Bob Markow documented the midcentury growth of Metropolitan Phoenix. Although the “dean of Arizona photographers” passed away in 2009, his…