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Hollywood horror films have given tarantulas a bad reputation as bloodthirsty monsters on eight legs, but these fuzzy arachnids are really just...

When I graduated from college, my mother gave me a blanket, a blanket she had promised me for years. It was my grandmother’s, she said. The blanket...

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...

Up on the Blue River, in east-central Arizona, cow-country folk account Herschel Downs a respected gent. Herschel’s spread, the UP Connected, kind of...

Editor’s Note: When I was discussing this month’s portfolio with Photo Editor Jeff Kida, I asked, “What can we do that’s different?” About 10 minutes...

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...

GRAND PRIZE WINNER Jessica Fridrich A stationary monsoon storm at sunset provides an unusual combination of light, reflection and shadows...

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...