Sedona's Red Rock Country

One day this past winter, we decided to drive up to Sedona to shoot some red rock photos. We left Gold Canyon at 7:10 in the morning so that we could get up there early as it is about an hour and a half drive. We did get up there early - too early - as the sun was on the wrong side of the mountains that I wanted to shoot. Probably poor planning on my part. If you go to shoot photos, there isn't any reason to get up there before noon.

So we drove around for awhile, stopped in Sedona to do some shopping and by that time the sun had moved around so that it was shining on the side we wanted to shoot.

We started about halfway up Oak Creek Canyon and started to work our way back down into Sedona, and then on past the town to Red Rock Crossing. We were lucky in that Sedona had gotten a light coating of snow in the higher elevations the night before, so we were greeted with white on the red rock which was a pleasant surprise as it always adds to these types of photos. The red rock with snow, the bright blue sky and the green scrub shrubbery makes for some awesome landscape photos.

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We found an overlook of Cathedral Rock at the end of Chavez Ranch Road as a great place to eat lunch and the Bell Rock Visitor Parking lot in Oak Creek Village made a great place to take some of the final photos before we decided to head back to Gold Canyon.

This was one of many trips I have made to Sedona, but I'm always in awe with each trip and always come back recharged - maybe it is the energy vortexes in that area. But that is another blog at another time as that is our focus for the next trip to Sedona.