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ARIZONA FISH & GAME//

Two days outside Flagstaff documenting the day in the life of Arizona rifle and bow hunters for the Arizona Fish & Game Department. From pre-dawn preparation to tracking and glassing the landscape, we captured the experience as it unfolded through stills and drone.

Two hunters walk through a tall ponderosa pine forest as sunrise light streams between the trunks in Arizona.

A hunter lies prone in tall golden grass aiming a scoped rifle while hunting in Arizona Game and Fish country.

A close portrait of a young bowhunter with sunglasses on his cap holding a compound bow in an Arizona meadow.

Two bowhunters hike a sagebrush ridge at dusk with snow-dusted Arizona peaks glowing in the distance.

A hunter in leafy camo carries a shotgun through a sunlit pine forest on an Arizona Game and Fish hunt.

A hunter stands atop a lichen-covered lava rock outcrop aiming a scoped rifle under a dramatic Arizona sky.

An aerial view of two tiny hunters crossing sagebrush flats below forested volcanic hills in Arizona Game and Fish country.

A smiling couple in camo carries compound bows through golden grass at sunset while bowhunting Arizona Game and Fish country.

A young archer draws a compound bow on a sagebrush ridge at sunset while hunting in Arizona Game and Fish country.

A mustached bowhunter reaches full draw among spring aspens while hunting in Arizona Game and Fish country.

A woman glasses with binoculars and a man watches through a spotting scope at sunrise while scouting Arizona Game and Fish country.

A man with a loaded pack and a woman carry bows up a sagebrush mountainside in golden sunrise light in Arizona Game and Fish country.

A low-angle view of a woman archer drawing a compound bow against a glowing sunset sky while bowhunting in Arizona.

A close portrait of a woman hunter in a beanie smiling and looking down amid a sunlit Arizona forest.

A black-and-white close-up of a focused woman archer at full draw anchoring an arrow while bowhunting in Arizona.

Two hunters cross a grassy meadow with rifles below a snow-capped Arizona peak framed by ponderosa pines.

A man and woman carry compound bows through sagebrush at dawn before snow-capped mountains in Arizona Game and Fish country.

A camo-clad couple carrying compound bows hikes through blooming sagebrush at sunrise on an Arizona Game and Fish hunt.

A man draws a compound bow beneath a ponderosa pine as the sun flares behind him in Arizona Game and Fish country.

A hunter carries a compound bow over his shoulder in warm sunset light on an Arizona Game and Fish hunt.

A close-up of a bowhunter at full draw wearing a camo face mask and Arizona cap while aiming a compound bow.

A black-and-white image of a woman hunter in an Arizona Elk Society cap steadying a scoped rifle while aiming.