Photograph by Scott Baxter
The paint is stubborn. She wants to be approached no more than she wants to be ridden. Ears back. Head tossing. Blue eye burning. The other — brown as the mud after a drenching rain — stares at the…
Photograph by Jill Richards
Ray DelMuro will tell you he likes to make things. But he doesn’t really have to tell you. The chair made out of Patrón tequila bottles outside his office is proof enough. As a kid in Southern…
Photograph by Randy Prentice
Anything is a shipwreck, if you let it. Last year, as my children stood in Eastern Oregon’s Burnt River, playing at pirates, they found wreckage in the pebbles and river rocks, in the twigs and…
Photograph by Rebecca Wilks
State parks often protect cultural, historical and natural resources and provide education and recreation. But one of Arizona’s newest state parks — which honors the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who…
Photograph by Jeff Maltzman
Slide Rock State Park The day after a storm, low clouds shroud the cliffs of Oak Creek Canyon as Oak Creek flows over polished sandstone. Algae on the park’s namesake…
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
Tubac has lived as many lives as the proverbial cat: Historians count nine times the community has seemed to die, only to be resurrected. And the small Southern Arizona town was beginning its most…
Photograph by Jack Dykinga
I get a lot of questions about submitting photographs to the magazine. In essence, the submission process is a job interview, and you have to convince me that your work will maintain or even raise…
Photograph | Patronato San Xavier
Something old is being made new again in the Sonoran Desert southwest of Tucson. The historic unfinished tower at Mission San Xavier del Bac is ready for a new generation of worshippers and visitors…