The Slot Canyons, this issue's Destination, actually straddle the border of Colorado Arizona and Utah. Shirley Simon-Glaze shot this month's placid cover photo near the Slots. Seattle photographer David Perry, featured in our Executive Portraits story, traveled to China's Great Wall for a cellular photo company.

Pete McArthur, featured in our story on studio photographers, loves to create sets and props so playfully composed and richly colored that people think they must have been created on a computer. His cover illustration, of a meticulously painted model boat was composed entirely in the camera. It is a testimony to McArthur's craft, and evidence of what may be the next big trend in studio work: Creating images so real, people think they are digital.

Model Song Dove is a popular actress in Korea, Stuart Westmoreland make the photograph poolside at the luxury Haleukalani Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii.

Photographer Ed Kahsi, featured in our profile traveled with Kurdish rebels in Iraq to capture this image for one of a series of personal projects on the world's minorities and dispossessed peoples.

Photographer John Marshall found this scene in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area of Washington state. He had taken a shot from the same location 10 years previously without a model, but always wanted to go back and re-create the shot. When he returned, he flagged hikers coming off the trial and traded modeling services for a ride back to where they'd parked their car. Marshall, a father of 1-year-old triplets, got his first 35mm camera when he was 12 and has been professional for 19 years.