Photograph by Michael Wilson
Best Picture 2022
GRAND PRIZE WINNER Michael Wilson Soft autumn light lends a dreamlike quality to a streamside scene in Oak Creek Canyon, near Sedona. “Robert Stieve, our editor,…
Photograph by Steven Meckler
A Very, Very, Very Fine House
From the street, this vintage Tucson house is typical of its era: low-slung, rustic in style and sporting an inviting porch that runs the entire length of its front façade. It’s not necessarily…
Photograph by Larry Lindahl
Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
LAURENCE PARENT Ragged Top rises from a sea of saguaro cactuses at Ironwood Forest National Monument, northwest of Tucson. The rhyolite peak, a popular climbing…
Photograph by Steven Meckler
Angle Orchard
There’s plenty of history at Angle Orchard, which is celebrating its centennial this year. And according to the descendants of Andrew Preston Angle and his wife, Viola — who began growing fruit in…
Photograph by Dawn Kish
Wherever The Spirit Moves Her
When the wind stirs the cottonwoods in Havasu Canyon, it sounds as though it’s come off the ocean. Impossible, considering that it’s 543 miles to the Pacific. The wind pushes the smoke of burning…
Photograph by Jeff Kida
We'll Let You In On A Little Secret
Reliable water in the desert, the only such oasis for miles around, has given Pipe Spring a rich history that includes Indigenous peoples, Brigham Young and John Wesley Powell. The presence of…
Photograph by Tom Bean
Heading North for the Summer
North Rim ferns thrive amid aspen trunks in an intimate view of the forest floor. The North Rim averages nearly 26 inches of moisture per year, allowing plants such as…
Photograph by John Burcham
The Resurrection of Colorado City
A road sign marks the entrance to Colorado City on State Route 389.Summer on the Arizona Strip means the occasional promise of a dark, vast, gray sea. Monsoon storms…