Well it was a fantastic 10 days at the San Francisco Giants Spring Training in Scottsdale, Arizona along with a stop over at Sedona and the Grand Canyon. The latter two were a whirlwind but we really enjoyed the beauty Arizona has to offer. I really can’t wait to go back!
I wasn’t camera obsessed on this trip, mainly because we were mostly busy with baseball. 🙂 We attended a special BBQ after one of the games and their photographer took a photo of us which I included in the small gallery below.
We saw so many beautiful places but I really didn’t get out my camera until we got to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. I did take quite a few iPhone photos and posted a few on my instagram which you can see by clicking on the sidebar where it says “Instagram”. Even in Sedona and the Grand Canyon I didn’t take that many pictures. We really did these two places in kind of a whirlwind but I do have some pics which I’ll be posting over the next few days.
The two landscape images are quite different but they are the first two I started working on. I had to start somewhere! One is of the Grand Canyon taken from a helicopter. What a great way to see the enormity of this incredible National Park. The other image is from the Sonoran Desert Preserve in Scottsdale.
Laura Macky Photography 
April 4, 2015 at 3:40 pm
welcome back.. and Happy Easter 🙂
April 4, 2015 at 3:41 pm
Thank you! Happy Easter to you too. 🙂
April 4, 2015 at 3:44 pm
Welcome back!
April 4, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Thank you!
April 4, 2015 at 3:44 pm
Nice to have you back 🙂
April 4, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Thank you!
April 4, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Welcome back, great pics and love your smile! Have an awesome Easter you two. 🙂
April 4, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Thanks John! Happy Easter to you as well! 😀 😀
April 4, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Welcome back and beautiful photos. Have a blessed Easter tomorrow.
April 4, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Thank you so much. You as well. 😀
April 4, 2015 at 4:09 pm
Yay! Hope you had a fantastic time! Beautiful photos btw – and I just love the pic of you both! 😀
April 4, 2015 at 4:11 pm
We had a wonderful time thank you!! And tnx about the pic. 🙂
April 4, 2015 at 5:31 pm
I need to come back to really get into these images. OH how I can just fall into all 3! Laura, you look radiant, and I really mean that! Healthy, happy, the best I know you have felt in a very long time! The helicopter shot is amazing as is your second one. I have barely been online but I still missed you. I bug bit me … here it has been weeks of fighting it off, and boy did I get whammed! High temps I have not seen since a kid and other nicities. You really didn’t miss too much over at Petals. Happy Easter to you and your Loved ones …. especially Big Mac! LOL Sending Much Love to you, (((HUGS))) Amy
April 4, 2015 at 6:48 pm
Oh wow you are still sick! You probably had what I had. 😦 I hope it leaves you soon. I hope you’ve seen the doctor with your high temps. I had it for six weeks! Crazy!
I hope you have a Happy Easter too and that you can enjoy it a bit even though you’re sick. Much love from Little Macky (and Big Mac too!). 🙂
April 4, 2015 at 8:09 pm
welcome back you ❤
April 5, 2015 at 7:05 am
Thank you! Good to be here. 🙂
April 4, 2015 at 8:14 pm
that canyon is amazing.
April 5, 2015 at 7:05 am
OMG it really is. I have some more too (naturally). Thanks Gav. 🙂
April 5, 2015 at 7:17 am
Look forward to them.
April 4, 2015 at 8:28 pm
All three good shots. Welcome back! 🙂
April 5, 2015 at 7:06 am
Thank you! Happy Easter.
April 4, 2015 at 11:14 pm
I don’t know what Instagram is, but I like the result
April 5, 2015 at 7:08 am
It was first developed for mobile photography only but people post their regular pics on there. I choose to still use it for mobile photography only just because I then have a place to store all those images. 🙂 Thank you Derrick!
April 5, 2015 at 4:13 am
Welcome back Laura! I admire you for taking the helicopter – but the resulting image was worth it – the Canyon is so difficult to get “right” – mostly due to haze and you did manage to capture the magic of the light in the desert around Sedona…
April 5, 2015 at 7:11 am
Thank you Robert! There was indeed a lot of haze and taking it through the window was even harder. Not all of them came out, especially when we were into the sun. I’m looking forward to processing some more. And from Sedona too. 🙂
April 5, 2015 at 5:37 am
A fellow Giants Fan! Thank Goodness! I love Sedona!
April 5, 2015 at 7:12 am
LOL! Go Giants!!! OMG…it is spectacular. I think i got a few images there. I have so many even though I thought I didn’t take many. Go figure. 😛
April 5, 2015 at 6:35 am
Welcome back and Happy Easter ! I love the picture of the curvy river 🙂
April 5, 2015 at 7:12 am
Thank you and Happy Easter to you as well! Glad you like the curvy river hehe.
April 5, 2015 at 7:07 am
So glad you are back what a great pictures!
April 5, 2015 at 7:13 am
Thank you Cathy! It feels good to be home. Hope you’re doing well!
April 5, 2015 at 9:38 am
wonderful
April 5, 2015 at 12:40 pm
Welcome back. Sounds like a great time. That’s a wonderful aerial image of Grand Canyon.
April 5, 2015 at 12:44 pm
We did! Thank you about the image. It was challenging as there were a lot of reflections in the window. It was so incredible being up there like that. What a view!
April 6, 2015 at 7:28 am
Beautiful photos, Laura, but I have to say my fav is the last one 😉. I’ll be sure to visit you on Instagram too. So glad you had such a marvelous time!
April 6, 2015 at 7:31 am
Thanks Stacy! I’m glad you liked the last one. 🙂 I saw you over there on Instagram as well. I go through waves with it. See you…well..everywhere! lol
April 6, 2015 at 7:45 am
Hahaha. Trying to delve into the social media stuff is keeping me crazy, Laura 😜
April 6, 2015 at 7:45 am
I’m right there with you! Except I can’t make that face on my computer. lol
April 6, 2015 at 7:52 am
Lovely portraits of the Grand Canyon and Sonoran Desert , Laura. And the baseball training sounds really fun. Go Giants. 🙂
April 6, 2015 at 8:18 am
Thank you. And yes Go Giants!! Spring training was a blast! I miss it already lol.
April 6, 2015 at 10:23 am
you look so happy!! Beautiful shots and a wonderful time was had by all ( it sounds!). Happy Easter!
April 6, 2015 at 2:57 pm
Thank you! I was very happy!! We had a great time. Happy Belated Easter. 🙂
April 6, 2015 at 4:54 pm
Welcome back! Glad you had a good time. Your pictures are wonderful. I need to take a trip out west. I definitely want to see the Grand Canyon, but I really want to go to Wyoming and photograph the wild mustangs 🙂 Near the top of my bucket list…
April 6, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Thanks Kirsten! That would be an amazing photographic experience!! Kinda like my wanting to go to Botswana to photograph those amazing trees!
April 7, 2015 at 12:41 am
Laura, you have a wonderful talent. Great pictures.
April 7, 2015 at 7:53 am
Thank you Tommy! I really appreciate you saying so.
April 7, 2015 at 7:40 am
Beautiful photos!
April 7, 2015 at 7:55 am
Thank you!
April 8, 2015 at 9:17 am
beautiful Laura and you look so radiant! ❤
April 8, 2015 at 9:19 am
Oh hehe thank you! Vacation does that to me. 😀
April 8, 2015 at 9:31 am
❤ ❤
April 9, 2015 at 12:13 pm
Nice to see you Laura 😀 Really great shot of the canyon and I’m glad you had some time out to just enjoy the ride!
April 9, 2015 at 12:25 pm
Waves to Sarah!! It really was a great trip. I wish I were still there!
April 10, 2015 at 11:06 am
Te he 😉 There will be more adventures to come I’m sure!
April 10, 2015 at 1:02 pm
hehe I’m sure there will be! My DREAM is to take these trees in Botswana. I’m pasting a link of Beth Moon who, in my opinion, takes the most gorgeous photos of these trees! if you click the little arrow to the right you can scroll through. http://www.bethmoon.com/DN02.html
April 11, 2015 at 4:35 pm
Oh those night time long exposures are really glorious!! The process she uses really suits her subjects 🙂 I’m sure I’ve seen some of the flycatcher plant prints of hers before! I love her ravens 😀 My utter dream would be photographing the wildlife and people of Bhutan! My hope would be to see a tiger in the wild. The people of Bhutan live alongside the wildlife with a respect that the rest of the world could learn a lot from.
April 11, 2015 at 4:44 pm
I’m so glad you like her! And yes, the ravens are awesome too. I love her photography! Seeing a tiger in the wild would be so amazing. They are incredible animals! I fed a large one through a cage once with a huge milk bottle. Does that count? 😉 It’s nice to have dreams isn’t it.
April 11, 2015 at 5:01 pm
It may be all that counts if conservation and a drastic decrease in human population of their home territories can’t save them! Even many scientists studying big cats can spend months out in remote tiger country and never see one with their own eyes. Numbers have started rising in some of the Indian national parks 🙂
April 11, 2015 at 5:26 pm
We really do need to reduce the growing world population. Don’t get me started! lol. Btw..did you have your wedding yet?
April 11, 2015 at 5:54 pm
6wks to go 😀 Don’t worry, you’ll all know about it when it happens! I’m ludicrously excited and happy 🙂 Yeah, I have some rather strong opinions on the excessive number of people on this poor little planet!
April 11, 2015 at 6:49 pm
I had a feeling it was close! How exciting!!!!!
April 12, 2015 at 1:55 pm
I’m fit to burst with excitement already 😀 Not enjoying the the paperwork we’re still having to sort out though! So much red tape and administration 😦
April 12, 2015 at 3:08 pm
I hear the bursting! So cute. 🙂 Except the paperwork of course. Yuck!
April 12, 2015 at 3:53 pm
I swear that some of these government departments create extra unnecessary paperwork just for the hell of it!! There’s some jobsworth sitting in the legalisation department in Milton Keynes laughing his head off every time someone pays online for their paperwork to be stamped, only to discover that they now have to print off more paperwork to provide extra proof that this is the paperwork that’s been paid for 😭😤
April 12, 2015 at 5:16 pm
LOL kind of like computers. They were supposed to make our lives easier!
April 13, 2015 at 1:07 pm
“Supposed” is the key word there 😉
April 13, 2015 at 6:27 pm
lol
May 15, 2015 at 10:39 am
I’m glad that you’re back (or, that you’re back too I might say) and it’s also good to hear that you had a great trip. I tried to read your post from my phone at first, but I quickly realized that photos of Grand Canyon needed a more proper screen!
May 15, 2015 at 2:36 pm
Thanks Cardinal! And wow yeah, the grand canyon was unbelievable AWESOMMMEEE!! Thanks for wanting to view them larger. 🙂