Photo of the Day Archive

Cactus flowers display their purple hues.

A gnarled tree branch adds a spooky air to sunrise at Monument Valley’s West Mitten Butte.

Water pools at the bottom of narrow Antelope Canyon near Page.

Black-and-White Wednesday: The moon rises over a fire lookout in the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson.

A northern flicker surveys its surroundings from a rocky perch near Scottsdale.

The snow-covered Four Peaks loom over Sonoran Desert saguaros.

The Milky Way galaxy looms over Lomaki Pueblo at Wupatki National Monument near Flagstaff.

Long shadows form on the layered buttes of the Little Painted Desert in Northeastern Arizona.