Photo of the Day Archive

Distinct color patterns emerge as differences in temperature and light affect each side of a desert canyon.

A great horned owl surveys its domain on an early morning in Scottsdale.

Rafters await the beginning of their trips down the Colorado River at Lees Ferry.

A stand of aspens displays the trees’ autumn leaves just off Hart Prairie Road, near Flagstaff.

An Indigenous-themed mural decorates the wall of the Native Music Coalition in Tucson.

A rainbow punctuates a sunset view of clouds in the Grand Canyon from the North Rim’s Cape Royal.

A skeletal figure poses on the side of Bell Rock in the Sedona area.

Yavapai Point, at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, offers a view of the lights of Phantom Ranch.