18th Annual Arizona Highways Online Photo Contest
Photograph by Jeff Kida
TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT
Every month, we showcase some of the most talented photographers in the world. Now it's your turn to join the ranks. Enter your favorite photo in the 2026 Arizona Highways Photography Contest.
Grand Prize
All expense 3-night stay at any ranch in the True Ranch Collection
All finalist photographs will be published online and in our September 2026 issue.
Please view OFFICIAL RULES before submitting entries.
Our contest is open to amateur and professional photographers. All photos must be made in Arizona and fit into the category of Landscape, Wildlife or Macro (close-up).
The submission deadline has passed.
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Photo by Sammani Perera
Point Imperial is an artistically unique place with Mount Hayden’s maroon ridge and sandstone crown, cone-shaped Gunther Castle, square-shaped Siegfried Pyre, like a landscape of sandcastles.
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park
Photo by Sammani Perera
Ode to Canyon Mornings. This photo encapsulates why I love the Grand Canyon—the way light and shadow play among the landforms during the golden hours. Here is my ode to canyon mornings.
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park
Photo by Melissa Harnish
A young coyote lies in wait for an evening meal to wonder by.
Location: Oro Valley, Arizona
Photo by Sammani Perera
Tales as Old as Time. There is a dead pinyon pine tree near the Walhalla Overlook, more curious than a living tree.
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park
Photo by Sammani Perera
A Study of Time. Geology, history, life worth two billion years. Every moment in the Grand Canyon is a study of time after all.
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park
Photo by Sammani Perera
Light in the Fire. With breathing space between trees, a forest floor clear of deadfall, and an unfurling shawl of lupines, this is the renewing ponderosa pine forest in the Atoko Point area.
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park
Photo by Melissa Harnish
An early morning javelina greeted me on my morning hike.
Location: Oro Valley, Arizona
Photo by Sammani Perera
A Bright Morning. Underneath the gloom of a wildfire on the South Rim was a bright morning with a view of Deva, Brahma, and Zoroaster Temples flanking the Bright Angel Canyon.
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park
Photo by Sammani Perera
Enchanted Forest. Cape Royal Road is the gateway to the majority of overlooks on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, but canyon views are not its only charm as it winds through meadows and forests.
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park
Photo by Sammani Perera
Pastel Forest. Coming out of Point Sublime, I took this long exposure photo once the dust on the road settled, the crickets in the grass alighted, and the breeze in the trees dropped.
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park
Photo by Sammani Perera
Sublime. For me, Point Sublime will forever be this northwestern view in the golden hour, empty, muted, sublime…
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park
Photo by Sammani Perera
Sunset from Cape Royal.
Location: North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park