Dusk in the Sedona Wilderness
A fun way to host family and friends is to take them to “our” plateau which overlooks the Sedona Wilderness Area. No tourists. Just space and a large campfire to listen to music and watch the stars multiply. Stare long enough into the embers and images appear. Here are five shots of the campfire:
Which shot do you like best?
Cindy Bruchman 
I feel hot just looking at those fire pics
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LOL. When the sun sets over here, it’s bone-chilling. Those hot embers do the trick.
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Amazing stuff.
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You can’t go wrong hanging out anywhere in that area…. beauty abounds. Happy New Year!
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Thank you, Ingrid. Right back at you 🙂
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Hot!
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Warm, warm, warm. I love how wood melts into liquid colors.
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And it smells good too in the open air. What kind of wood were you burning.
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Alligator Juniper. It is an excellent no-smoke burn with the ridges of the bark that turn into chips and rectangular knobs.
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If I can only pick one, I’m going with 2 for having the coolest finding-shapes-in-clouds quality, but 5 was right on its tail. 😀
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I kept imagining I was walking around Hell when I stared at the coals.
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That’s ironic as what I saw looked like some of their employees. 😀
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Very hard to choose between them. I lean toward number 2.
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Hello Ian. Thank you for voting!
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Wow! What a cool perspective. I’ve looked at them a while now and find it impossible to narrow it to one. Beautiful shots.
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Hi Keith, thank you. I think of films like Wrath of the Titans or various Hobbit films featuring a Hades of some sort and that’s what the campfire was like.
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I prefer the top one with the general view of the pink cliffs.
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🙂 thanks, John. I usually take landscapes — that need to capture the space — but it rarely works well. I thought this time I would focus on something minute.
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I like the embers in 5, but they are all good. I could feel the warmth, just like from my indoor wood stove at home.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Pete, I like 5 the best, too. Something about it looking like red-emeralds. 🙂
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your photography just gets better and better. so much so that it is impossible to just pick one as the best.
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Well, thanks, Bill! Kind praise, indeed.
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Spectacular shots Cindy! There’s something so intriguing about flaming fire, and so dramatic 🙂 Happy New Year, my friend!
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Thank you, Ruth. Clink! Here’s to 2016 conversations.
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My wife wants to go to Punta Cana or Peru …. and I keep thinking “I’m not really finished with Arizona”.
Great pics Cindi !
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Ha. She’s probably seen enough! You should try out the Mogollon Rim – my favorite spot in AZ.
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Blistered knobs. Great photos.
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Welcome, Lloyd. Thank you for commenting. That’s my favorite shot, too. If they were green, they’d be emeralds. 🙂
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So true. 🙂
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Love number 5!
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Welcome back to London, Abbi! Thanks for stopping by and voting. I like the nuggets in #5, too.
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Loved them all but the top one the best. I love a sunset.
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Hi Brenda! Thanks for your vote. I love sunsets, too. 🙂
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