Photographer Peter Coskun skillfully captures on camera what it feels like to be deep in the heart of Arizona’s slot canyons, showcasing not only one of our state’s most beautifully abstract elements but also the incomparable intimacy that they naturally supply.
For this month’s photo essay, Images Arizona invited members of Phoenix Camera Club — a collective of photography enthusiasts that has been in existence since 1932 — to share some of their favorite photographs that unequivocally illustrate that there is no place like Arizona in winter.
Mark Laverman believes that the glue that has held Phoenix Camera Club together for the past 90 years is the members’ common love for the beauty of Arizona.
Writer Joseph J. AirdoPhotography by Rusty Childress The practice of decorating a tree for Christmas has some roots in religion, but the tradition actually branches back even further in history. Long before the advent of Christianity, ancient peoples hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows in the winter with the belief that evergreens warded…
Writer Susan Kern-FleischerPhotography Courtesy of Sonoran Arts League [dropcap]L[/dropcap]ongtime Desert Foothills art enthusiasts may recall how Hidden in the Hills co-founder Judy Darbyshire hand-drew maps during the first two years of what has since become an iconic studio tour. Those photocopied maps were then personally distributed by each of the artists as well as posted…
Writer Joseph J. AirdoPhotography by Tam Ryan [dropcap]O[/dropcap]riginally published in 1844 as “The New-England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day,” Lydia Maria Child’s poem has become the quintessential celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, evoking childhood memories of traveling through an autumn dreamscape on the way to a Norman Rockwell-esque dinner with relatives. The poem includes references…
Writer Joseph J. AirdoPhotography by Rycardo Bia [dropcap]D[/dropcap]arkness falls across the land. The Midnight hour is close at hand… You need only read those iconic words and your mind immediately transmografies them into their audible form, menacingly spoken by Vincent Price in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Chances are, you heard Price’s foreboding voice and felt your…
Writer Joseph J. AirdoPhotography by Mark Laverman [dropcap]F[/dropcap]ew things on earth are as relaxing as lounging lakeside, wading in the water or simply sitting on a boat, staring at the beautiful light that bounces off the canyon walls. Fortunately, Arizona boasts a lot of lakes in every nook and cranny of the state from which…
Beautiful and breathtaking. Dynamic and dangerous. That is the natural world around us. Here in America, we experience the glorious diversity of nature firsthand. The North boasts of freezing temperatures and high snowfall during long winter months. The Southeast features impressive and terrifying hurricanes. The Midwest succumbs to tornadoes that can stretch a mile wide. And the West finds itself rattled by frequent earthquakes of all magnitudes.
When people think of Phoenix, they don’t think of green pastures or of golden prairies…
