Ashley Fetner Fine Art Photography

This little country church sits along Creamery Road in Wolf Creek West Virginia.
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“Oakcreek View”

Sedona Arizona with its extreme contrasts in form and color lives up to is name of Red Rock Country. As you approach the village of Oakcreek you are amazed at the sight of giant, fire-red buttes, mesas, spires and pinnacles. Cathedral Rock is one of the many natural landmarks in the Sedona and Oakcreek area. Not only are they famous to the traveler but these buttes and mesas have been the backdrops for many Western movies and television commercials.
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“Madison River”

The Gibbon River and the Firehole River combine to form the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park. It flows through the park into Lake Hebgen and continues to flow more than 140 miles to meet with the Gallatin and Jefferson Rivers to form the Missouri River. The Madison runs though the most thermally active region in the United States so the water temperature on most sections of the river are often above seventy degrees, despite its origin of a high mountain river.
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Ashley and I recently visited Lower Antelope Canyon on the Navajo reservation in Page Arizona.  In both the upper and lower canyons there are hidden “slots” that are carved into the Navajo sandstone.  Sam, our native guide told us that as a child he and the other children wanted to play in the “slot” canyons but they were not allowed.  The Elders believed these to be the “Home of the Spirits”-a spiritual and sacred place –only to be entered in a state of quiet and reverence.  Even today the Navajo ask that as you enter you do so in a respectful manner.

Descending into the canyon I had a sense of another time and a “presence” that was not my own.  Light and rock worked together as the changing patterns, shapes and colors swirled and curved all around me-truly a magical and beautiful place!  There were rocks like giant waves and I found myself “listening” for that roaring sound they make when they hit the beach!

I am not found of “tight” spaces and there were times when we had to turn our bodies sideways and “wiggle” through the rocks (with camera equipment & backpack!) to continue on in the canyon.  When taking camera equipment in you have to be careful of winds gusts up top.  They will cause fine sand to sprinkle down that will damage your camera lens if they are not covered.  We had a couple of gusts just before we climbed out but we had covers!

Ashley captures some wonderful images and I definitely agree with the Elders…the Spirits must reside here-

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 Located in the Upper East Side of New York is one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th Century -The Guggenheim Museum. The Guggenheim is an internationally renowned art museum with collections ranging from Impressionism to Contemporary art. On May 15th of 2009, a new exhibit opened titled Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. This is a year long celebration of art, architecture and innovation to mark the 50th anniversary of the completion of the building that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.  This is a “must see” if you are in New York!
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Little Rock South Carolina is the oldest town in Dillon County and was settled prior to the American Revolution. St. Paul’s Methodist Church was originally known as “Liberty Chapel” and originated when a preaching station was organized, by Francis Asbury, on the Little Pee Dee River in 1786. In 1871 a new building was built in Little Rock and the named changed to St. Paul’s Methodist Church. Behind the church, surrounded by a brick wall, is a beautiful cemetery with headstones dating back to 1855 and earlier.
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The Blue Ridge Parkway runs 469 miles along the crests of the southern Appalachians and links two eastern national parks—the Shenandoah and the Great Smokey Mountains. Mile 0 at Rockfish Gap near Waynesboro, Virginia, is the northern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway. To the north the parkway connects directly to Skyline Drive and winds 105 miles through the Shenandoah National Park.
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 Built in 1884, Herns Mill Bridge is one of two covered bridges left in Greenbrier County West Virginia. It is 54 feet long and was built over Milligan’s Creek for easy access to the S.S. Herns Mill. It is listed on the National Register of Historical Places in West Virginia. It is located on Route 40 south of US 60 outside of Lewisburg West Virginia.
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“Natural Bridge”

  Bryce Canyon National Park is the smallest of Utah’s national parks but is has the most unlikely and beautiful rock formations that you will ever see. The park is a series of amphitheaters filled with mazes of hoodoos and spires with an amazing range of colors. The Natural Bridge located along one of the overlooks, is not a true natural bridge formed by a stream, but is actually an arch formed from rain and frost erosion acting from the top of the rock. Looking through the arch you can see the stand of Ponderosa Pines in the canyon below.
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A 100 mile wrinkle in the earth’s crust—a Waterpocket Fold that extends from Fishlake Mountain in Central Utah to Lake Powell in Southern Utah. Capitol Reef National Park was established to protect this land the Navajo call the “Land of the Sleeping Rainbow”. A beautiful landscape of multi-hued sandstone rock layers, cliffs, reefs, canyons, arches, spires, and domes with a wide range of diverse plants and animals. One of the roads you can explore in the park is the Capitol Gorge Spur Road. This road was traveled as a through road from 1884 until 1962 but now it is only two miles long. While driving this road you can view the most dramatic sandstone erosion in the park. Today, just like the wagon masters a century ago, you need to consider the weather before you proceed into the gorge due to dangerous flash floods that occur with little warning.