Carlos Hall Elmer (22 July 1920 – 22 May 1993) was an American writer and a photographer based out of Kingman, Arizona.
After his discharge from the military in 1946,[3] he worked as a civilian at the United States Naval Ordnance Test Station from 1947 to 1957.
[4] Carlos Elmer's Joshua View is a named slope in Mohave County, Arizona west of Grapevine Mesa.
It eponymizes Elmer's legacy of photographing Joshua trees in Mohave County.
[5] Carlos Elmer's Joshua View is unique in that it is one of few American place names with a possessive apostrophe.