Sunrise at Bright Angel Point, Grand Canyon National Park
I scored a last-minute reservation at the North Rim for the last night of my tour through Arizona for the Highway 89 project. Not that I spent much time in the park – about 14 hours, from sunset ato sunrise. The monsoons dowsed me all the way [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Inevitable dust – North Rim, Grand Canyon NP
The pictures we want to make – Saguaro National Park
Monsoon clouds over Saguaro National Park
I came to Arizona with an agenda, a list of essential photos for the U.S. Highway 89 book project. I have a vision for the book, I can see it almost page-by-page. For the last 10 days, I have been knocking out pictures that fit into that overall vision. I [...]
Twin bridges over Marble Canyon, Arizona
Twin bridges over Marble Canyon and the Colorado River
Arizona’s first state highway, U.S. 89, was mostly complete from Nogales to Flagstaff by 1926. The segment from Flagstaff to the Utah line took much longer. Lee’s Ferry over the Colorado River was shut down after a deadly accident in 1928; the bridge over Marble Canyon, [...]
Outside the boundary – Flagstaff, Arizona
ATV tracks on lava sands near, but outside, the boundary of Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
I’m taking today off. In the five days since I left SLC, I drove 1,600 miles, including three trips from Phoenix to Tucson (one of them all the way to Nogales) and made the essential pictures I had targeted for [...]
New friends, new heights: Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
Horseshoe Bend near Page Arizona
One of the great things about the blogosphere is the people you might meet. I say “might” because the blog only goes so far. At some point, I have to pick up the phone or email and make the personal contact. I met Maria Langer last February when I was [...]
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