Landscape Sedona, Arizona USA, Sept 2024

[FowlersFreeTime]

Took a trip to Sedona AZ to celebrate my friends' wedding. However, one does not simply go to Sedona without taking in the amazing landscape! Here's Day One at the Airport Mesa overlooking Sedona.

Balanced camera on a rock and set self timer to 10 seconds so I could run into frame:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 26.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 45.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

I believe this range is Thunder Mountain:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 21.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 100

This might be Wilson Mountain, I'm not sure:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 27.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 100

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 41.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 25.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

She wasn't part of our group, but she seemed to be about the same business:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 25.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

This caught my eye, but I wish now that I had taken one step to the left to make a cleaner composition:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

Prefer B&W?

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

Onwards and upwards:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 18.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Day one continued.

Once again, balanced camera on a rock and set self timer to go and sit in-frame:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 25.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

Second time got a better view of Thunder mountain instead of me:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 25.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

Typical trail:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 17.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 160

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 30.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3000001907349
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 28.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 100

Same bench I posted in the "Lonely Bench" thread:

• E 17-70mm F2.8 B070
• 17.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Richard A]

Looks like a very beautiful & interesting landscape. I do like the one of the dead tree with the cactus in the foreground. I would maybe crop it a bit. But I much prefer it in colour.

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Looks like a very beautiful & interesting landscape. I do like the one of the dead tree with the cactus in the foreground. I would maybe crop it a bit. But I much prefer it in colour.

Thanks Richard. It was a great place, I can't wait to go back. I only got to see the mountains at sunset, didn't have my camera on me, pity because the light was pure magic.

Also, that city is a dark sky city, so I'll have to return another time during new moon and get into some astrophotography.

As for the dead tree photo, there was something to it, but I couldn't quite capture it. We were on a tight schedule, so I tried to be creative in a hurry and failed. I would have preferred to stay a while and try a few more angles, but that's vacation photos for you! Thanks for the input on the color vs b&w.

 

[Tinopener]

Loved Sedona these are a couple of pictures I took when I was there a few years ago .. One is called coffee pot mountain and the tree in the other picture amazes me how its survived .. Love your shots ... Gary

• SLT-A35
• ----
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 400

• SLT-A35
• ----
• 360.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 500

 

[Tinopener]

A bit more in focus this one

• SLT-A35
• ----
• 250.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 250

 

[Tim Mayo]

Lovely shots Chris. It definitely looks like a nice place for a hike. I don't think we would get very far with our boys at present though, unless I was carrying them!