17th Annual Arizona Highways Online Photo Contest

Photographer with tripod standing on rock cliff looking toward sunset.

Photograph by Laurence Parent

Every month, we showcase the most talented photographers in the world.
Now it’s your turn to join the ranks. Enter your favorite photo in
the 2025 Arizona Highways Photography Contest.

You could win one of several prizes, and the winning photographs will be published online
and in our September 2025 issue.

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).

Please view OFFICIAL RULES before submitting entries. 

 

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The submission period for the 17th Annual Arizona Highways Photo Contest has closed. The finalists will be announced soon.
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landscape

Photo by Michelle Calcagno

A different view of Cochise Head from between two hoodoos at the Chiricahua National Monument.

Location: Chiricahua National Monument

macro

Photo by Kirk Higgins

Clever black and yellow bug chills out on a flower under a canopy of growth.

Location: Prescott AZ

wildlife

Photo by Kristi Haverkamp

Sandhill cranes gathered at dawn creating a cacaphony as they take off in small groups to feed in nearby fields for the day. Approximately 40,000 cranes winter in southern Arizona from Oct to March.

Location: Whitewater Draw, McNeal, AZ

macro

Photo by Kirk Higgins

A bumblebee waits on a flower decorated by red tendrils.

Location: Prescott AZ

landscape

Photo by John Byerly

An electric storm flashes over the Catalina Mountains as seen from a golf course in Oro Valley

Location: Oro Valley, Tucson

wildlife

Photo by Kathleen Murphy

Sweet Mallard momma with her one and only duckling...

Location: Green Valley Park, Payson, AZ

landscape

Photo by Chad Kwiatkowski

View to the south from the orange Paleoproterozoic granite of Continental Mountain over Black Mountain, the Phoenix Mountains, and the Sierra Estrella, as well as the intervening basins.

Location: Continental Mountain and Black Mountain, Cave Creek, AZ

landscape

Photo by John Byerly

A microburst from a Monsoon Storm in Northern Tucson

Location: Saddlebrooke, Tucson

wildlife

Photo by Nathanael Brodhagen

A red-tailed hawk launches into the air shortly after taking off from a telephone pole.

Location: Tucson

wildlife

Photo by Chad Kwiatkowski

A chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater) perched atop a red breccia boulder at Papago Park, seen through the bright yellow blur of springtime brittlebush flowers.

Location: Papago Park

landscape

Photo by John Byerly

A monsoon storm and rain rolls over Oro Valley in Tucson

Location: Oro Valley, Tucson

landscape

Photo by Garu Peurifoy

A beautiful sky with orange, pink and blues, with purple mountains and saguaro cactus in the foreground. On a road in Saguaro National Park on the west side.

Location: Saguaro National Park West Side