A simple surprise awaited me this early Spring day near Sedona. Hiking along a dusty valley trail I came upon a wonderful cave (or was it an arch?). What I found was a sandstone room of incandescent, indirect light; filling the multi-colored walls and shelves with an unearthly glow of reds, purples, and oranges. It was an amazing, silent, ever-evolving light show as the morning and afternoon progressed. I felt like I was the only one ever to set foot in this magical place. It was very special...

The challenge of capturing what I saw on 'film' was time-consuming and exhausting. The dynamic range of the site far exceeded what any camera could record - so most of the images are composites of two or more photographs exposed for shadow, mid-tones, and highlights. Photoshop was used to combine the images, and a bit of saturation was added to some (and subtracted from others) to bring the photographs to match what I remember in the emulsion of my mind...