Besides Jerome, you may want to visit Clarksdale and take a ride on the Verde Canyon Railroad that goes through Verde Canyon. Great scenery! Here's their website: http://verdecanyonrr.com/
And most definitely, if you have time, visit Sedona! Pink Jeep tours is an experience not to miss!

Before heading up to Sedona you may want to try the Verde Canyon Rail ride. Beautiful scenery, they have an open railcar that offers you great views of the canyon. I also would recommend a night in the old mining town of Jerome. Of course, you shouldn't miss Painted Desert: beautiful at all hours of the day. You can find some of my sample pics here: http://itsagoodting.smugmug.com/Visions-of-Arizona for some ideas.
It's a beautiful state to visit! While in Sedona you can't miss the Pink Jeep tour! That I wholeheartedly recommend! Also there's a few wonderful towns on Rt. 66 not to miss: Holbrook, Kingman, Seligman. Enjoy Arizona!

Hi Chuckles,

Thank you! Of the three images dogs are actually my favorite subjects. I get a lot of practice taking pics of my 3 doggies. Thankfully, no complaints of big butts, droopy eyes, pimples and "That's not my best side." Although one of my dogs is camera shy.

Now that's a ride I would love to be on! Great images.

Great pics! Love the first one! Sharp and muddy.

Found few more samples of freeze action images. The first one I threw a bunch of green pencils in the air and took a shot with flash which froze the pencils in mid-air. The 2nd one is of a Chinese long-sleeves dancer and the 3rd is a stop-motion image of an amusement ride.

Airborne Pencils


Chinese Long-sleeves Dancer


Jurassic Ride

Thank you laskalass. Ahh..laska! Have yet to visit your huge state! So many photo opportunities!

Very nice! I like shot #2. Could be a car commercial.

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Pat - Such lovely snow photos - love the cast of the sun in #1!

jacklpine - I really enjoyed the haying demo. It always amazes me to see a freshly baled field of hay!

wISOr - Great examples of freezing action. Love the sun on the front of the boat. Glad you stopped by ~

jetty56 - What a treat to see your photos from New Zealand. Looks like a blast!

RR - Love the frozen hand action! And, I never get tired of your train shots!!

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RR - You've gotten so creative! Love the red train.

Irene - WOW! I saw on the news the other day where folks were having some great opportunities to access some cave areas due to the frozen water, etc. This must have been a fascinating trip. You captured these scenes beautifully!

Mr_Mel - Now that is freezing the action - AWESOME!

mopinia - What a great unique gull shot! Love ~ And I would love an opportunity to take photos at an aerial show with the Blue Angels. And the dogs . . . perfect freezing action.

Thank you mgstrawn. I hope you'll be able to see either a Blue Angels or Thunderbirds air show this year. I wonder if they're on tour again? Is the Govt sequester still on? If so then the airshows are postponed or cancelled. I would love to sequester our entire govt. and start all over with term limits for dimwits!

Now THAT is stop-action!

Very nice images, Honu. Is Honu Hawaiian? I'm from Hawaii. Honu means sea turtle in Hawaiian. Just wondering. Anyway, that 2nd image reminds me of the "George of the Jungle" cartoon. "Watch out for that tree!"

Thank you Pat! Love your snowboarder pics. Oof! That last one took a terrible dive!

Love the pig-race shot. I think I know what scared these piggies away. Someone yelled, "Bacon!" Cute picture!

Thanks, Roadrunner. Lot's of great 'freezing action' images on this challenge. Love your second image of the snowboarder. Great catch!

Oh, almost forgot. Caught these two in a dog park. Doggy 'just desserts'.

Bully me?


Bully you!