A brown and black background with cracks in it

Peaky Frames

A black and white photo of a cracked surface

Patrick Hendry

Renzo D'souza

Exploring Semnan, Iran: Shahroud’s Tepe Hissar

Ramin Khatibi

Dan Gold

A desolate dusty brown riverbed with dry broken clay soil

Grant Durr

a person standing in the middle of a cracked road

It’s been a long time without rain in Arizona. I took this photo after hiking to one of my favorite water holes. Surprisingly it was completely dry. This has held water every year until 2017. It was precarious while walking across to get this photo. Columns would give away and the drop was almost 3 feet to some semi-stable ground.

Cracked earth