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Remington Hotels Assumes Management of Sky Rock Sedona
“Sunset amongst the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. This is the moment when the sun just touches the horizon and the light skips over the treetops making the mountains glow. A few more minutes and it all will begin to disappear until finally, the very tops of the mountains fade into the night sky.” – Alexander Volkov
Sedona is also one of the best places in the world to see the stars. As a Dark Sky Community — one of only 29 in the world — the city uses low-lumen lighting to ensure there is limited light pollution.
ocals call Sedona, Arizona, a cathedral without walls. It’s not just the landscape – those red cliffs, mesas rearing up against a crisp and empty sky, that inspired Hollywood producers of the 1930s and 40s to shoot westerns such as Broken Arrow and Stagecoach in the area. Three million tourists a year come to this town of barely 10,000, nestled among towering rusty sandstone rock formations in the northern Verde valley. Many of these visitors are pilgrims, particularly at this time of year, headed to Arizona in search of spiritual renewal.
As the earth rotates while photographing a fixed area of the sky for a long duration, the light of the spinning stars naturally leaves behind trails in the photo. To make the image above, I photographed the stars in the northern sky continuously for 2 hours, giving me 348 exposures. This let me create 2 products; a star stacked photo of circumpolar star trails, and a time-lapse video of the stars swirling as they incrementally form star trails. I photographed the stars above the Schnebly Hill Formation in Sedona, AZ. I was able to create the spectacular footage of the star trails as they grew using cumulative image saving in the amazing StarStax app.
