Crossing

• Andy Warhol.

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After a long time of all work and no play, we finally managed to get some time off from work and coupled with the thanksgiving day holidays had a decent enough time to plan another photo trip. This time like last year we chose the South West.

On the first day of our trip we basically drove straight to Sedona, AZ and to the Cathedral Rocks vista. We spend a lovely evening walking around the park and scouting locations for the evening shoot. As the sun started to go down we had amazing light hitting the rocks with some beautiful foreground interests all over the park.

This view particularly caught my interest with the beautiful rustic barn in the foreground with the cathedral rocks forming an interesting albeit distant background. I used my tele lens to compress the distance a bit and stitched three shots to get this image. I swear I will never get tired of the incredible red of the rocks set against the beautiful blue skies.

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• George Eliot.

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Another shot of the stunningly beautiful cathedral rocks of Sedona, AZ. This was taken at the same park from where I took the previously posted shot but this is the more classical location. A local photographer who was there told me that we missed out on fall colors by a week and that the trees framing the rocks still had some color till about 3 days ago.

News like this used to depress me not so long time ago and I usually go on a tirade blaming everyone in the universe for my bad luck, but thankfully these days I just resolve to visit the place again and I am sure my wife is thankful for that change. She used to have to endure my rants. Anyways this is one of my favorite shots from the trip. Hope you all enjoy it.

• Kin Hubbard.

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While living in LA, we were spoiled by the abundance of stunning locations nearby. There were tons of national and state parks a short drive away and some location that could easily be national parks as well. So, when someone mentioned about a little town called Sedona near the Grand Canyon national park, it didn’t immediately climb to the top of the list. But it piqued our interest enough to be added into our next trip to the Grand Canyon’s south rim. I only did cursory research about the place, and most of it resulted in the image of cathedral rocks and the sliding rock state park which provides some stunning vistas of these beautiful rock formations. We only had an afternoon allocated for the park and had to leave immediately after sunset to get to our hotel near Grand Canyon NP.

As soon we got near Sedona, we knew that we made a mistake, the place was just beautiful with stunning rock formations everywhere we looked. Fall had passed, but there were still some remnants of fall colors lingered on some of the more stubborn trees. We explored the small park on foot till the sunset. And as soon as the light started to warm up, we headed to our sunset spot. I picked this spot for the sunset shot due to the rather sill pool of water on the slick rock, but during sunset, the whole stream was rather calm providing a spectacular reflection of the rock formation with some nice trees on both sides completing the composition.

One of the amazing places in the American Southwest! This is the vista from Oak Creek. Wading through the shallow water was required to capture this great view.