One thing that amazes me about Lightroom is that I can have a pictures that I think are beautiful and perfect and then edit them in Lightroom and see how wrong I was. This is what happened with Sedona, I thought I had all these beautiful pictures where the color popped perfectly and everything was in sync, but then when I put the photo into Lightroom and enhance the natural colors, the originals only look subpar at best.
Hi fellow hackers! We finally made it to Sedona! I’ve been wanting to come here for a while but couldn’t find a good time to take a 3 day weekend to fully experience Sedona. Side note: This is a continuation of my Travel Hacking Blog Series where I talk about how I use reward points to pay for my vacations. I’ll be posting a travel guide to Sedona that’ll detail what we did and more pictures but I wanted to do a separate post about how I used my airline and hotel points to pay for us to come here. We ended up only paying out of pocket for our food and activities!
The minute we entered Sedona it was magical. The red mountains are truly spectacular and must see! I was driving through winding mountain roads and wanted to pull over at every turn to take pictures of the scenery. Being from flat Texas, anytime I see mountains or anything other than hills, I start taking a lot of pictures. Anyways, I had been dreaming of Sedona for a while and finally over Labor Day weekend, the stars aligned and we were able to go.
For me, most of my vacations revolve around my bucket list and Sedona was not exception. The ONLY reason we went was so that I could ride in a hot air balloon through the Red Mountains and it was 1,000% worth it! I knew from photos that the Red Mountains were spectacular, let’s be honest when you’re from the flat South every mountain range is phenomenal. But these really did take my breath away and the pictures really don’t do it justice. This is one of the few times where I haven’t had to edit my photos, not because I’m an awesome photographer but because the landscape is that amazing!
