Tag: infrared desert

  • Constellation Park Sepia

    Constellation Park Sepia

    Captured just outside Sedona, Arizona in Constellation Park, this surreal landscape was photographed using a modified Hasselblad X1D for infrared photography. In this ethereal infrared image, the rugged rock formations glow with otherworldly warmth, while the foliage below—normally rich desert greens—takes on ghostly, cool tones of blue and silver. Above it all, high-altitude cirrus clouds stretch dramatically across a deepened sky, their motion frozen in time like brushstrokes on a vast canvas.

    Infrared photography reveals what the eye cannot see, and in this case, it transforms the Arizona desert into something almost lunar—familiar in form yet alien in mood. The quiet strength of the rocks, combined with the swirling sky and spectral trees, evokes a dreamlike quality that feels more myth than memory.

  • The Grand Canyon Outpost, Williams, Arizona

    The Grand Canyon Outpost, Williams, Arizona

    Along the quiet stretch of U.S. Highway 180 near Williams, Arizona—just south of the entrance to Grand Canyon National Park—sits the Grand Canyon Outpost. Once a trading post serving travelers heading toward the canyon, this building now stands still in time, its rustic wooden siding, wagon wheel trim, and overgrown landscaping echoing an earlier era of western Americana.

    Captured in infrared, this black-and-white image brings out the textures of the aged wood and dramatic Arizona sky. Though parts of the property have been repurposed as loggings, the storefront itself remains a beautifully preserved shell of the past—a symbol of the roadside culture that once defined Route 66 and its surrounding highways.

    This image is part of my ongoing Americana Project, documenting buildings and landscapes that echo past history.