Arizona, Part 1

Last month, we spent a week in northern Arizona.  We took a day and a half and drove to Sedona, where we stayed for three days.  Then we drove up to the Grand Canyon for a couple of days before we headed home.  I really liked Sedona; it's truly a photographer's paradise, with or without a circular polarizer.  Take a look.

Many of the rock formations have names.  This is Bell Rock.

This was the view outside our hotel room.

The first night, we walked down to a local arts and crafts market called Tlaquepaque, that looks like an old Mexican village was picked up and transported to Sedona.

Sedona is famous for crystals, vortexes and other mystical stuff and on our way back to our hotel, we passed a shop that had an enormous crystal ball in front of it.

It was really cool to see the sunset reflected in the crystal.

Later on, since our hotel room was facing away from the street, I decided to try capturing star trails for the first time.  It's not great, but not bad for a first effort.  I really want to try it again now.

Stay tuned.  More to come.