Photo of the Day Archive

A Sonoran Desert tortoise forages for greenery in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.

Fishermen enjoy the early twilight hour at Lake Pleasant.

Monument Valley, or Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii — Valley of the Rocks, in Navajo — is one of the most distinctive and photographed landscapes on Earth.

Black and White Wednesday: Cathedral Rock, said to be one of Sedona’s vortices, boasts several majestic sandstone spires.

A sea of green spreads over Sweetwater Preserve, where cattails, cottonwoods and duckweed transform the Sonoran Desert into an unexpected wetland oasis.

Watson Lake, near Prescott, provides vital habitat for resident and migrating birds.

Tucson’s Mission San Xavier del Bac, established in1692, was one of a chain of Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert

Scrub meets sky near Nogales, not far from the U.S.-Mexico border.