Arizona Trip: Heading to Phoenix next week - then to Sedona and to Grand Canyon. Looking for unique photo places - something that every tourist hasn't taken a picture of. Especially...

rrayrob Loc: Las Vegas, NV

Heading to Phoenix next week - then to Sedona and to Grand Canyon. Looking for unique photo places - something that every tourist hasn't taken a picture of. Especially interested in sunrise and sunset photo ops. All suggestions welcome.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

rrayrob wrote:

Heading to Phoenix next week - then to Sedona and to Grand Canyon. Looking for unique photo places - something that every tourist hasn't taken a picture of. Especially interested in sunrise and sunset photo ops. All suggestions welcome.

There was a Q&A recently that might give you some ideas: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-190961-1.html

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

rrayrob wrote:

Heading to Phoenix next week - then to Sedona and to Grand Canyon. Looking for unique photo places - something that every tourist hasn't taken a picture of. Especially interested in sunrise and sunset photo ops. All suggestions welcome.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Western School of Architecture is near Phoenex.

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

rrayrob wrote:

Heading to Phoenix next week - then to Sedona and to Grand Canyon. Looking for unique photo places - something that every tourist hasn't taken a picture of. Especially interested in sunrise and sunset photo ops. All suggestions welcome.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Western School of Architecture is near Phoenix.

bohleber Loc: southern Indiana

Go to the North Rim if you have time. Vermilion Cliffs are spectacular around sunset.

BigBear Loc: Northern CT

The aircraft graveyard is between Phoenix and Tucson.
Lots of memories there for some people.
I'm still looking for the elusive roadrunner.
The AZ - Sonoran Desert Museum is a neat place too.

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

If you are into oddities at all a visit to Arcosanti is in order. It is a community designed by Paolo Solari and construction began in the early 1970's. It's purpose is not completely apparent to me but it is interesting.

rrayrob Loc: Las Vegas, NV

Yes, have been there 2 times - for architectural design personal like me it's like going to the Vatican for Catholics.

finalimage Loc: Brattleboro, VT

Suggest you Google Montezuma's Castle and Montezuma's Well. Near Sedona and very close to the highway. Both feature ruins of the Sinagua tribe which abandoned these spots 1000 years ago,

rrayrob wrote:

Yes, have been there 2 times - for architectural design personal like me it's like going to the Vatican for Catholics.

waykee7 Loc: Cortez, Colorado

rrayrob wrote:

Heading to Phoenix next week - then to Sedona and to Grand Canyon. Looking for unique photo places - something that every tourist hasn't taken a picture of. Especially interested in sunrise and sunset photo ops. All suggestions welcome.

Another option is to go to a library that has Arizona Highways or has some of the AH books and thumb through them. They've had a cadre of superb photographers working for them for a long time. Some of the northern AZ stuff is great. . . Antelope Canyon and then arrange a jeep tour to the top of Hunt's Mesa, which overlooks Monument Valley.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

If you have time, visit Slide Rock State Park just off the interstate between Phoenix and Flagstaff. It has some unique photo ops.

UtahBob Loc: Southern NJ

rrayrob wrote:

Heading to Phoenix next week - then to Sedona and to Grand Canyon. Looking for unique photo places - something that every tourist hasn't taken a picture of. Especially interested in sunrise and sunset photo ops. All suggestions welcome.

This can be done quick when going in or out on the eastern side of the GC. Lots of texture in the lava.

Good for those that have not been to Hawaii or think they never will.

Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument

http://www.nps.gov/sucr/index.htm

mrhea

I am not a pro by any means but in Sedona go to Aerie Road - close to the Enchantment Resort. Here is one I got in 2009.

RichardSM Loc: Back in Texas

rrayrob wrote:

Heading to Phoenix next week - then to Sedona and to Grand Canyon. Looking for unique photo places - something that every tourist hasn't taken a picture of. Especially interested in sunrise and sunset photo ops. All suggestions welcome.

Hello rray

Good luck in your in devours to finding photos in Arizona that haven't been taken by someone already, this is one state that has been so photographed all the way back to the nineteenth century. Just have fun with your camera take lots of pictures enjoy your self!

2thfxr

The old mining town of Jerome has interesting old buildings. I really enjoyed the Titan Missile Museum just south of Tucson, they take you down into the silo that has a decommissioned Titan missile in it and you also get to tour the underground launch room. THe north rim is closed for winter, so check on that before you drive all the way around. There are a lot of elk and Rocky Mountain sheep around at sunrise at the El Tovar Lodge. I walked about a mile into the canyon and found that interesting.