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Arizona Woodpeckers are aptly named (at least in this country) because their United States range is limited to Arizona’s southeastern corner and, perhaps, a tiny area in southwestern New Mexico. Their range extends southward through Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountain range. Within their range they inhabit only forested mountain slopes. They are unique in appearance in that they are the only predominately brown woodpecker in this country.
Arizona's Superstition Mountains after a rare snowstorm
Viewed from Dutchman’s Trail on January 1, 2019. (Wonderful way to spend a winter holiday...)
Caterpillar mining trucks at work in the Freeport McMoRan Copper Mine in Morenci Arizona, USA
THIS OPEN PIT MINE IN southeast Arizona is so large that it swallows up U.S. Route 191. Travelers driving south along the highway will be surprised to emerge from upland pine forests into a desolate, Martian-like landscape. This is the Morenci Mine, one of the largest copper mines in the world.
With an annual production of between 700 and 850 million pounds of copper, the Morenci Mine is the largest copper mine in Arizona. It was first explored in the 1860s by gold prospectors, but wilier miners smelt a better opportunity in the mountainous atmosphere. By 1881, the Phelps Dodge Company began operations that would rapidly expand and make Arizona famous as the Copper State.
For over 100 years, the copper mining industry weathered geological challenges and wild market fluctuations, but in the early 1980s, the Morenci mine was the center of a desperate human drama. As the worldwide recession deepened, Phelps Dodge invalidated collective bargaining with the mining unions and thus began the Great Arizona Copper Strike, lasting from 1983 to 1986. At one point, the Arizona governor called up 350 National Guard troops, 450 state troopers, and 160 SWAT sharpshooters to protect the gates to the mine. The political, economic, and social damage done to the surrounding communities continues to be felt today, and are recounted by Anna Ochoa O’Leary in a new book, Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona.
Today, the mine employs more than 3,000 people and continues to define Arizona’s identity in addition to being loaded with history.
These lights are above a streetcar stop on the new trolley line on University Avenue.
University Avenue, west of the University of Arizona's main campus, is the major food and beverage and clothing store center for U of A students, faculty, and visitors. I always find it exciting and enjoyable...:))
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A Saguaro Cactus with a particularly symmetrical cluster of blossoms and buds on its very top (they're usually spread more chaotically). Taken in Arizona's Superstition Wilderness (May, 2018).
Intermingled stems from an Organ Pipe Cactus and an Ocotillo against the Sonoran Desert Sky. Taken December 2015 in Arizona's spectacular Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Looking southeastward across the valley of Arizona's Verde River, just upstream of the river's confluence with Sycamore Creek, I was able to capture one of the many valley-bottom cottonwood trees colonized by mistletoe. I took this photo on January 25, 2023 from an open-air observation car of the Verde Canyon RR as it returned to its station in Clarkdale, Arizona.
Back in the 1890’s Goldfield boasted 3 saloons, a boarding house, general store, blacksmith shop, brewery, meat market and a school house. Just when it looked like the town would outgrow Mesa, the vein faulted, the grade of ore dropped and the town died a slow painful death.
After several unsuccessful attempts to reopen the mines, the town did come to life again from 1910 on and off until 1926. After more than 115 years, travelers from all over the world still visit this gold mining town located on the historic Apache Trail and enjoy the excitement and grandeur of Arizona’s wild west
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One and done... The Saguaro cactus blossom opens at night and closes the following afternoon, which doesn't allow much time for cross-pollination from another plant to take place. Good thing there are tens of millions of them every year.
Seen in Saguaro National Park.
A male Northern Shoveler enjoying the Arizona winter at Gilbert Arizona's Riparian Preserve. More pics from the Riparian Preserve. www.azdewphoto.com/NatureOutdoors/Gilbert-Riparian-Preserve/
On the remote Paria Plateau in Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, White Pocket is a group of swirling, multicolored formations of Navajo sandstone, including domes, hoodoos, gullies and potholes. Arriving at White Pocket inside Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, you are initially struck by the contrast of white rock in smoothly rounded mounds and cliff edges, dotted with two imperial looking spherical beehives rock cones
A Saguaro Cactus that responded to a broken top by growing a beautiful set of arms around the stump; taken in Scottsdale, Arizona’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve
A group of tall Organ Pipe and Saguaro cacti in southern Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (March, 2019)
Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park contains some of the most unique landscapes in the world. In the park, the Blue Mesa trail showcases rock formations with their multicolored layers shaped by millions of years of erosion and geological activity.
Technical info
Panorama of 10 frames, each frame consisting of a 3-image exposure bracket -1/0/+1 EV, 50mm, f/9.0. Stitched in Hugin using Miller Cylindrical projection.
Photography and editing by Geoffrey Liu
View of Saguaro Cacti on a warm day in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. (It gets hotter, but it's generally wise to be indoors.) Taken July 2022
Panoramic view of the Colorado River snaking through the floor of Arizona's desert, as seen from the Navajo Bridge.
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Master photographer Jackson Bridges working the entrance to 'Canyon X' - one of Northern Arizona's amazing slot canyons not far from the more famous Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons.
More than you probably want to know:
I was fortunate enough to get a private tour with Jackson - he calls this place ‘Canyon X’ because he was a big fan of the X-Files TV show and it looks like it was carved out by alien technology.
Canyon X is not open to the public; it's located on remote Navajo Nation land about 16 miles South of Page, AZ and 5 miles from the closest paved road. It can only be reached by 4-wheel drive on a bone jarring wash trail. Jackson describes the commute as getting a free full body massage. We spent 6 magical hours walking and shooting through this wavy sandstone maze that was at times over 100ft deep and a claustrophobic 3ft wide. Every so often, a desert crow would fly though the canyon making noises and freaky echoes that gave me instant goose bumps :O
Check out Mr. Bridges work at www.jacksonbridges.com (although most of his awesome stuff is in his gallery) and his company at www.overlandcanyontours.com
Blossoming Saguaro Cacti, Ocotillos (red flowers) and Palo Verde (yellow flowers) in Arizona's Saguaro National Park (May 2019)
Lush springtime greenery in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. A Brittlebush is blossoming in the foreground. Taken April, 2022
A lush Sonoran Desert hillside covered with blossoming Palo Verde (yellow flowers) and Ocotillo (red flowers on tall stalks). The Saguaro Cacti are just starting to bud. Taken May 2023 in Arizona's Ironwood Forest National Monument
Both photos taken near or in Pine Arizona. The Mogollon Rim is one of Arizona's most prominent and recognizable features.
on the Apache Trail (A88)
Back in the 1890’s Goldfield boasted 3 saloons, a boarding house, general store, blacksmith shop, brewery, meat market and a school house. Just when it looked like the town would outgrow Mesa, the vein faulted, the grade of ore dropped and the town died a slow painful death.
After several unsuccessful attempts to reopen the mines, the town did come to life again from 1910 on and off until 1926. After more than 115 years, travelers from all over the world still visit this gold mining town located on the historic Apache Trail and enjoy the excitement and grandeur of Arizona’s wild west!
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Music: Alberto Ginastera
Cheoreography & Costume Design: Norman Walker
Jacob: Javier Chavez (Guest Artist) in brown costume
The Angel: Bo Binton in white costume
Artistic Director: Cecily Bressel
Dress Rehearsal Photos: Chic Bressel
Jacob, having wrestled with an Angel of The Lord all night, asks the Angel to bless him. The Angel blesses him and says henceforth his name shall be Israel (Yisrael in Hebrew) He who contends with The Lord.
I shot Jacob And The Angel in the theatre at yesterday's dress rehearsal of "Arizona Ballet Theatre Salutes The Americas 2014." The lighting is dramatically low, so I had to shoot at slower shutter speeds than I like to use.
Performances are this evening at 6pm and Sunday Matinee at 3pm, in the University Of Arizona's Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. Some tickets are still available.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB, California on Monday June 16, 2025.
It's been a while since I've captured a SpaceX launch. This one is over Bombay Beach.
I made this shot look like the rocket took off from Sean Guerrero's ReInCarNation art in the background to the right.
Shot with a Canon EOR and Canon RF 15-35mm lens at 10 sec f/6.3 ISO 200.
The art installation in the foreground is the Temple of Floating Compression by Glass House Arts.
The Temple of Floating Compression went to Burning Man 2023!
Previously it was at Arizona's regional burn Saguaro Man, and served as the temple for San Diego's Regional Burn, YOUtopia.
The main structure is now permanently installed in Bombay Beach, on the shores of the Salton Sea. Instead of the central tensegrity icosahedron, it features a swing! Lighting by Kevin Key Photography.
#spacex #bombaybeach #saltonsea #art
The beautiful red and white terraced sandstone here reminded me of nature's version of a racetrack. I captured this scene at the otherworldly White Pocket in northern Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument.
Arizona's meteor crater is the best preserved impact crater in the world. It was also the first one proved to be an impact crater. It is almost a mile across and 570 feet deep. Scientists estimate that the impactor was a 150-foot-wide nickel-iron meteor moving at 26,000 mph.
The facilities for visitors are modern and attractive. Entrance fee in 2021 was $20 for adults, $11 for children. You save a little by ordering online at meteorcrater.com.
Caterpillar mining trucks at work in the Freeport McMoRan Copper mine in Morenci Arizona, USA.
THIS OPEN PIT MINE IN southeast Arizona is so large that it swallows up U.S. Route 191. Travelers driving south along the highway will be surprised to emerge from upland pine forests into a desolate, Martian-like landscape. This is the Morenci Mine, one of the largest copper mines in the world.
With an annual production of between 700 and 850 million pounds of copper, the Morenci Mine is the largest copper mine in Arizona. It was first explored in the 1860s by gold prospectors, but wilier miners smelt a better opportunity in the mountainous atmosphere. By 1881, the Phelps Dodge Company began operations that would rapidly expand and make Arizona famous as the Copper State.
For over 100 years, the copper mining industry weathered geological challenges and wild market fluctuations, but in the early 1980s, the Morenci mine was the center of a desperate human drama. As the worldwide recession deepened, Phelps Dodge invalidated collective bargaining with the mining unions and thus began the Great Arizona Copper Strike, lasting from 1983 to 1986. At one point, the Arizona governor called up 350 National Guard troops, 450 state troopers, and 160 SWAT sharpshooters to protect the gates to the mine. The political, economic, and social damage done to the surrounding communities continues to be felt today, and are recounted by Anna Ochoa O’Leary in a new book, Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona.
Today, the mine employs more than 3,000 people and continues to define Arizona’s identity in addition to being loaded with history.
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.
Vast, magnificent and inarguably beautiful, the Grand Canyon is easily Arizona’s most distinguishable landmark – and a natural wonder that you simply have to see to believe. Stretching 277 miles from end to end, steep, rocky walls descend more than a mile to the canyon’s floor, where the wild Colorado River traces a swift course southwest. Rock that dates back 1.8 billion years lies at the bottom. Exactly how the river formed the canyon is still unclear, but geologists generally agree that most of the cutting occurred within the last five million years.
Excitement was in the air rolling through beautiful aspen trees with their neon yellow-orange leaves. Snow had blanketed the Kaibab Plateau days earlier creating stunning fields of winter contrast. Storm clouds were showing low in the south, the path to the North Rim, our destination. We arrived, and during first hike for views over the edge -- thick fog hid the entire canyon. The Grand Canyon had disappeared.
Rain picked up and we knew this would be a wait. A wait well worth it if the fog started to dissipate. And eventually it did, just enough in spurts to witness the beauty of Arizona's natural wonder.
This composition intrigued me. The change from thick fog with almost no visibility to dappled light poking through with lodge and overlook revealing itself. I could have sat here all day watching the many different moods on display.
The last rays of the setting sun on Saguaro Cacti and blossoming Palo Verde in Arizona's Superstition Mountains (March 2022)
A healthy Saguaro cactus adjacent to the skeleton of, what would have been, a similar-looking cactus. Taken May 2015 in Arizona's Saguaro National Park.
We are on national TV!!! 💃💃💃
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NBC featured us, Action Photo Tours, in a segment about the Southwest on the TODAY show! I am beyond excited and want to thank all of you for your continuous support.
Four years ago, I left the stability of cooperate America to pursue a passion (well...a hobby, really) and started Action Photo Tours. I had no social media following, no client base, nor a solid business plan. But through your unwavering encouragement and support, Action Photo Tours is in it's fourth year of operations and our reach is steadily expanding. Thank you for being on this journey with me and always inspiring me to work harder, do better, and shoot more 😉!
Come and see us in the amazing desert Southwest!!