Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arizona. Show all posts
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Photograph by Walter Meayers Edwards Beyond the roar of the Colorado River, a pool of silence. Discovering this hushed limestone sanctuary at Shinumo Wash in Arizona's Marble Canyon, members of a National Geographic expedition christened it Silver Grotto. (Photo shot on assignment for "Retracing John Wesley Powell's Historic Voyage Down the Grand Canyon," May 1969, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 449
Photograph by James P. Blair Stark-white San Francisco Xavier del Bac Mission, south of Tucson, Arizona, lacks a right cupola. One legend, among many, tells that it was left unfinished as a memorial to the 18th-century Spanish architect, who fell to his death from the tower. (Photo shot on assignment for "From Sun-clad Sea to Shining Mountains," April 1964, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 363
Photograph by Vincent J. Musi A crumbling billboard overlooks Arizona’s historic stretch of Route 66. This fabled road once linked towns of all sizes from Chicago to Los Angeles, serving as the main thoroughfare for generations of westward migrants. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Romancing the Road," September 1997, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 285
Photograph by Michael Nichols A pool of rainwater in a Grand Canyon boulder reflects canyon and sky. A writhing giant with scores of limbs (some still unnamed), the Grand Canyon slices 277 miles (446 kilometers) through northern Arizona, extending 18 miles (29 kilometers) at its widest point and 6,000 feet (1,800 meters) at its deepest—one of Earth's largest canyon systems. Cut by the Colorado River in the past six million years, it exposes rock strata that detail nearly two billion years of North America's geologic history. (Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Unexpected Canyon," January 2006, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 274
Photograph by George Steinmetz The All-American Canal disappears over the horizon of the Yuma, Arizona, desert. The 80-mile (129-kilometer) canal is part of an extensive system of waterways that taps the Colorado River to irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in southeastern California and southwestern Arizona. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Watching You: The World of High-Tech Surveillance," November 2003, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 269
Photograph by Michael Nichols Twin bolts of lightning reach for the depths of the Grand Canyon near Point Sublime. This scenic area on the canyon's North Rim is not as easily accessible as other lookouts. But for those willing to make the two-hour trip by 4WD vehicle, the vistas are among the best the park has to offer. (Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, "The Unexpected Canyon," January 2006, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 160
Photograph by Vincent J. Musi For many people, diners—and their colorful employees—represent relics of a slower, gentler era. Historians trace the first diner to 1872 in Providence, Rhode Island, where pressman Walter Scott sold food from a horse-drawn wagon parked outside the Providence Journal newspaper office. Nostalgic for the "good old days," Americans today are fueling a 21st-century diner revival. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Romancing the Road," September 1997, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 145
Photograph by Michael Nichols Rafters aboard a motorized pontoon boat get a thorough soaking on the rain-swollen Colorado River in Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park. Each year, some 22,000 visitors board rubber paddle rafts, oar-powered wooden dories, and luxury motorized rafts to ply this storied stretch of the Colorado's waters. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Unexpected Canyon," January 2006, National Geographic magazine) Photo of the Day 114
Photograph by Michael Nicholas A time-lapse image blurs the silty, mocha-colored waters of the Colorado River as it flows through sheer cliffs in Grand Canyon National Park. The now tame Colorado carved these steep walls over the last six million years, exposing rock strata that detail nearly two billion years of North America's geologic history. Wrote one canyon trekker: "[T]hat I could reach down and touch a part of the Earth that existed when life itself was a mere billion-plus years old made this big cliff land seem very holy indeed." (Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Unexpected Canyon," January 2006, National Geographic magazine)
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