Photo of the Day Archive

One of the ancient logs at Petrified Forest National Park sits on the high-desert landscape.

Stars fill the sky over the Superstition Mountains, east of the Phoenix area.

Above Canyon Lake, a dusting of snow covers the iconic Four Peaks on a winter morning.

Black-and-White Wednesday: A full moon contrasts with a rare crested saguaro in the Santa Catalina Mountains.

A gnarled tree rises from the high-desert landscape of the Navajo Nation’s Monument Valley.

The Apache Trail splits the snowcapped cliffs of the Superstition Mountains.

A cottonwood in Aravaipa Canyon bears the scars of past floods in the canyon.

Plane contrails fill the evening sky over Coolidge, southeast of Phoenix.