This is one version of a series taken outside a famous chapel in Arizona, just outside of Sedona.

The postal address is the Coconino National Forest but trees are not what you think of when you are there.

The Chapel itself is usually shown looking from behind at the stained glass between two rocks. This again seems dissumalation as the site

is - besides being a place of worship - a viewing platform for the valley with its compelling colours and rock formations. So, for a start, it is a bit

perverse to show it as a black and white photograph. I can subtitle this Photography and colouristic perversity in Arizona. But a landscape like

this is so compelling to the modern urban dweller I think it deserves several takes from the same series of photos. As you'll see in subsequent

images it's the violent red of the rocks that captures the attention. There are some very good images on Google with 360 degree cameras that

give a sense of the scenes outside the chapel and the road from Sedona. This is something else.

Eighteen separate rectangles selected from a lot more photos to present snapshots of a scene that is too big for the eyes. Order pressed on

a vast unruly piece of nature. The square system is a nod to Hockney's polaroid joiners, though a fraudulent scheme from standard ratio photo

images. If you are a fan of the Westerns of the 1950's shot in black and white it might bring back memories like it does to me. And puzzlement.

I understand it would have been an economical consideration, yet the reality of the colours left behind seems like a shocking lie, an important

narrative event that was kept from the spectator in cold and grey lands for nefarious purposes. Maybe I'm being too paranoid.

More to come.