Some 30,000 pictures ago, Gil Gustavsen and Cheryl Stapleton thought they were going in a totally different direction. Both transplants to Arizona, they teamed up to sell photographs of beautiful Sonoran desert scenes and plant life, and of the Grand Canyon. Then, in 2005, they met Bob Boze Bell of True West magazine, “and our entire focus changed,” Stapleton remembers. Today, their Gustavsen-Stapleton Studios in New River, Arizona, is known for its extensive photography of prehistoric ru


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