Sunset Crater at Sunset

Posted by Steve Rice (Olympia, United States) on 15 February 2010 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

Sunset Crater is a cinder cone volcano that began erupting around 1064 AD. It's the most recently active member of the the 600 hills and mountains in the San Francisco volcanic field. Flagstaff, Arizona, USA lies on the southern edge of this 1,800 square mile (4,662 square kilometer) area that was active for 6 million years. Nearly every hill and mountain between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon is one of these extinct volcanos.

It is certain that the predecessors of the Indians who built Wupatki Pueblo witnessed the eruptions of Sunset Crater.

Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
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Comments (44)

jpla from St Barthélémy d'Anjou-49, France

Juste une pointe de lumière sur la montagne : grandiose ! Bonne journée.
JP

15 Feb 2010 6:37am

PATRICK from miramas, France

very great capture

15 Feb 2010 7:07am

k@ from Paris, France

The light hits it superbly, very cool for your timing, and we feel like a lion slowly walking in the savannah towards the great crater !

15 Feb 2010 8:11am

GJC from Kyoto (京都), Japan

Oh, wow. You caught this at a magical moment.

15 Feb 2010 8:55am

Sarito from Basingstoke, United Kingdom

how beautiful this is.. excellent framing..

15 Feb 2010 9:00am

Veronique from Sarrouilles, France

very nice morning light

15 Feb 2010 9:12am

yiannis krikis from thessaloniki, Greece

excellent framing, colors and shadow

15 Feb 2010 10:07am

MrsAmber from West Wickham, United Kingdom

Fabulous to see.. I love a bit of vocanic activity. A well constructed picture.

15 Feb 2010 10:26am

Nazzareno from Rome, Italy

...great use of light and color !

15 Feb 2010 10:42am

Veronelle from Lens, France

i like the sunny crater

15 Feb 2010 11:10am

Marc L. from France

Joli le contraste entre le clair et l'obscur. La photo est superbement détaillée, bravo !

15 Feb 2010 11:51am

Mathilde Collot from Fontainebleau, France

Extraordinaire définition dans les sombres simplement balayée par une lumière qui s'en va crescendo! C'est superbe!!

15 Feb 2010 12:21pm

Viewfinder from Bradenton, FL, United States

Wow!

15 Feb 2010 12:56pm

Anna.C from LA ROCHELLE, France

superb lighting on the top of the volcano ! a great wild and wide landscape !

15 Feb 2010 1:11pm

dideban from mashhad, Iran

Great shot

15 Feb 2010 2:11pm

bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada

Wow Steve, this is an awesome shot! Love the detail in the foreground and the control of exposure. Superb!

15 Feb 2010 2:43pm

Daniel from Kenmare, United States

interesting.

15 Feb 2010 2:51pm

MARIANA from Waterloo, Canada

very lovely landscape !

15 Feb 2010 3:37pm

B.Held from Santa Fe, United States

this is fantastic work

15 Feb 2010 3:42pm

Don from spokane, United States

A fine crater shot at a very desirable time of day. Love having the moon in the shot too.

15 Feb 2010 4:47pm

Bill Brown from California, United States

Awesome capture, Steve!

15 Feb 2010 4:48pm

vu@granby - Wolfgang from Granby, Canada

Great shot, perfect light, and as a bonus we get the moon! ;-)

15 Feb 2010 6:38pm

Kiki from Ambert, France

The volcano and the moon... I like your compo: I lived myself in a region of extinct volcanos.

15 Feb 2010 6:43pm

john4jack from Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Very nice. I lived in Flagstaff through most of the 80s.

15 Feb 2010 6:58pm

Thea from Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Really..a beautiful shot..Like it só much I have no words..

15 Feb 2010 7:21pm

Self-Indulgence from Chicagoland, United States

I like how you have both the moon and the last vestiges of light on the crater top/ caldera?

15 Feb 2010 7:46pm

Curly from South Shields, United Kingdom

Not sure about the huge expanse of negative space in the foreground.

15 Feb 2010 8:26pm

alex centrella from California, United States

stunning light and moon !

15 Feb 2010 8:33pm

Reflecteur from Gothenburg, Sweden

Well done! Very nice shot, the light is excellent!

15 Feb 2010 9:35pm

Diana from United States

well done

15 Feb 2010 10:14pm

One from Açores, Portugal

What an awesome scenery ! And the moon completes the picture perfectly !
Well done .

15 Feb 2010 11:32pm

Charles Dastodd from Chicago, United States

A beautiful, expansive landscape!

16 Feb 2010 12:10am

Michael from Shell Village, United Kingdom

Great shot Steve, the wide sweeping landscape looks good, as Charles said - expansive..! Did you go up the crater ?

16 Feb 2010 12:18am

@Michael: Hiking on the mountain is no longer allowed due to erosion.

JJ from Jersey City, United States

Love how this shot leads in from dark to light, super capture at the right time of the day

16 Feb 2010 12:46am

Ajay from Pune, India

Perfect use of natural light here. Great timing.

16 Feb 2010 1:55am

jeff (aka dogilicious) from Millerstown, PA, United States

My daughter and I were just studying composite volcanoes. I believe this is a "real world" example. Love the shadow.

16 Feb 2010 2:02am

Céline from New York City, United States

Lovely image !

16 Feb 2010 6:02pm

bekkah from Pennsylvania, United States

gorgeous image!

16 Feb 2010 7:41pm

Chris B from Netherlands

very great capture

16 Feb 2010 7:45pm

Daryl Johnson from Farnham, United Kingdom

A magical landscape; quite beautiful off in the distance like that, capturing that lovely light.

16 Feb 2010 9:46pm

hugo poon from hong kong, Hong Kong

Beautiful landscape, lovely light, alluring atmosphere... magical shot Steve!

17 Feb 2010 12:08am

Achu from Baltimore, United States

nice shot

17 Feb 2010 12:23am

Stef67 from in my head, France

immense et la lune qui semble éclairé cette univers désolé pour y apporté un peu de vie^^

17 Feb 2010 1:03pm

Reno from Madrid-Paris, Spain

Love those differents greens and the presence of the moon lights with sunset ones!

26 Feb 2010 7:37pm

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