@PythonFan888 That looks like a GREAT vacation! I love that Sedona area. Did you spend long there?
Thanks
@PrincessInOz! It was a quick 4-day photography trip with my brother-in-law who just got his new Sony A7ii. Sedona was a brief drive through on our way from Phoenix to Flagstaff. We were hoping to catch the light of the setting sun at Red Rocks but a deadly road accident blocked traffic and we had to ditch our plans and proceed directly to Flagstaff. We did get some shots on the Scenic Byway. Our main targets were Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend.
History/historical*
Montezuma Castle National Monument. June 7, 2015
ISO 100
Focal Length 28mm
Aperture f/7
Exposure Time 0.016s
Wiki still has the best description:
"Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a set of well-preserved
Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings near the town of
Camp Verde,
Arizona,
United States. The dwellings were built and used by the
Sinagua people, a
pre-Columbian culture closely related to the
Hohokam and other
indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States, between approximately 1100 and 1425 AD. The main structure comprises five stories and twenty rooms, and was built over the course of three centuries.
Neither part of the monument's name is correct. When European-Americans first observed the ruins in the 1860s, by then long-abandoned, they named them for the famous
Aztec emperor
Montezuma in the mistaken belief that he had been connected to their construction (see also
Montezuma mythology). In fact, the dwelling was abandoned more than 40 years before Montezuma was born, and was not a "castle" in the traditional sense, but instead functioned more like a "prehistoric high rise apartment complex"."
Sunset*
Hopi Point. Grand Canyon National Park. June 8, 2015
ISO 100
Focal Length 14mm
Aperture f/14
Exposure Time 0.0125s
