Contrails And Rocks

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Contrails And Rocks

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Jon Burch Photography

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Photograph - Digital Photography

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Contrails line the sky above Slide Rock State Park in northern Arizona. Contrails are clouds formed when water vapor condenses and freezes around small particles that exist in aircraft exhaust. Some of that water vapor comes from the air around the plane; and, some is added by the exhaust of the aircraft. The exhaust of an aircraft contains both gas and solid particles.

Slide Rock Park gets its name from a natural water slide formed by the slippery bed of Oak Creek 7 miles north of Sedona. Located on Coconino National Forest land Slide Rock State Park is co-managed by the Arizona State Parks agency and the U.S. Forest Service. Tall red rock formations that are typical of the region surround the park, which contains a 43-acre working apple farm.

The land was first developed by Frank L. Pendley, who arrived in the canyon in 1907 and acquired title to the land under the Homestead Act in 1910. Pendley developed an irrigation system still in use today and planted an apple orchard in 1912. The state completed a road through the canyon in 1914. Pendley built rustic tourist cabins in 1933 that in part survive today.

Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the Fine Art America watermark.

Image copyright 2020 Jon Burch Photography

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August 2nd, 2020

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