Audii-Dudii's Photoblog

Sanders Road, Marana, AZ

Posted by Jeffrey (Scottsdale, United States) on 18 June 2013 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

This past Sunday, I went to an autocross event that was held at the regional airport in Marana, AZ, which is a small farming community located in the Central Arizona desert between Phoenix and Tucson. Instead of driving 105 miles home via several freeways, I decided to take backroads and do some photography along the way.

I suspect the reference will be lost on many, if not most viewers, but what caught my eye about this scene was its remarkable similarity to Andreas Gursky's Rhine II (which broke auction-price records not very long ago), except this photo was taken from the side of a road in the Central Arizona desert, not from the bank of a German river, and also that it has not been heavily manipulated post-exposure...

P.S.: This is the only photo I took of this scene because my camera, which had been sitting in the sun on the passenger seat of my car for about 10 minutes as I packed up to leave the event, overheated and shut down. As you can imagine, when the temperature outside is 105 degrees (and climbing!), it doesn't take very long for anything that's sitting in the sun to get quite hot indeed! Fortunately, 10 minutes later, with the camera now in the shade on the floor, the car's air-conditioner had cooled everything enough that it resumed working, with no (apparent) permanent damage ... here's hoping, anyway!