When Mike Osborne was an undergraduate at Stanford University, he crisscrossed the western United States, making the long drive between his Texas home and California about every six months. The ...

Abstract lines and shapes break up Rodrigo Valenzuela's barren mixed-media landscapes of Joshua Tree National Park and Chile’s Atacama desert. Using a multi-step photocopying process, Valenzuela ...

For centuries, artists have blurred the line between nature and creation. In the 1960s and 1970s, this became a popular movement in the art world, as pioneering artists increasingly incorporated ...

Russian photographer Oleg Ershov won the first place prize for Landscape Photographer of the Year. To be considered for this category, entrants had to include at least four different shots in their ...

AlUla’s oasis has inspired artists for millennia: Recently, Desert X AlUla has brought a fresh artistic resurgence to this striking desert landscape. In the searing heat of the desert, a sculptured ...

The deserts of the American Southwest are known for their spectacular sunsets, extreme temperatures and a wide variety of unique flora and fauna. The all-too-common scorpion, like other critters, has ...

Despite the desert environment of the Coachella Valley, most of the landscaping here is predominantly made up of non-native and even tropical plants. Although aesthetically pleasing, these plants, ...