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Las Vegas City Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Janine has recently updated our section of Las Vegas photos, and added a completely new section of Las Vegas City Center photos. Considering this brand new 12 billion dollar city within a city even has its own fire station, and is bigger then most cities we have visited, it seems appropriate for it to have its own section.
Take a 12 minute trip down the Las Vegas Strip in 12 seconds, and then enjoy the Downtown laser light show! I’m surprised it only took 12 minutes to drive the length of the strip, that is because it was a cold, winter mid-week evening. By the way, if you have the bandwidth or patience, you can watch it in 1080 HD.
This is my first attempt at putting together a time-lapse video. I actually captured the stills for the strip footage 4 years ago on the same night as this Las Vegas Strip photo. You might notice that the demolished Stardust is still standing and open, and City Center doesn’t yet exist. The downtown laser show was from last fall.
Four years ago – I had a big head start on the recently popularity for time-lapse – unfortunately these files have just been sitting on my computer. I shot a fair amount of Alaska time-lapse footage last summer, and hope to do something with it soon as well. It has been a bit of a steep learning curve – the long list of words like codec, MPEG4, H.264 are like a whole new language to me. I have to thank Phil Colla for getting me headed in the right direction.
For those who are interested in how I captured the images of the strip, you might enjoy this blog post: Las Vegas Strip
Canoe art in the middle of City Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
I’m trying to imagine the conversation: “You see we are building a very high-end, 11 billion dollar resort in Las Vegas and think your old canoe would look perfect out front.” Do you or your friends have anymore?”
It is a pretty cool statue, but seems more like something you would see in front of a resort in Jackson Hole or Whistler rather then Las Vegas.
Below are two of the new hotels in City Center. The pool belongs to the non-gaming hotel called the Vdara. Across the way is the much larger hotel and casino known as Aria. It is a bit hard to imagine, but on any given night there could be far more people in this one hotel, then living within 100 miles of my Alaska home. But then, that is one of the things that makes where we live so wonderful – and it is a place where you really can use a canoe!
The pool of the Vdara along with the Aria Hotel and Casino, City Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Crystals, City Center Las Vegas, Nevada.
Crystals is the new retail center in the heart of City Center. Something tells me this isn’t the place to pick up a new pair of Carharts or Xtratufs! The top view is of City Center from Las Vegas Blvd “The Strip”.
Below is an inside view – the wooden structure is actually a restaurant! A restaurant that I’m sorry I didn’t get the name of and will be extra sorry when I go to keyword!
Crystals, City Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
This tram connects the Bellagio and the Monte Carlo with the hotels, condos and mall that are the City Center, Las Vegas. The buildings in the background makeup a portion of the Aria Hotel and Casino.
We spent the last two nights and one full day on a very quick trip to Las Vegas. I really needed to photograph the brand new City Center. I have an extensive collection of Las Vegas photos, but not having images of the brand new 11 billion dollar City Center was a giant hole. Yeah that’s right 11 billion! So with wildflowers a bit off here, we made the quick drive to Las Vegas.
I had hoped to photograph the City Center last October, but its planned opening was delayed until December, so I walked finding vantage points outside the project in which I could get distant images. Now I was able to photograph the huge 76 acre project from within.
I usually try to pick “quiet” times to photograph Las Vegas. I was once there during a cold, rainy mid week evening in which I had the Strip about as much to myself as possible in a place visited by more then 35 million people a year. 🙂 Well, visiting during a warm stretch of weather, during Spring Break, St. Patrick’s Day, and right before the biggest gambling sporting event of the year wasn’t actually quiet, but fortunately it worked out.
Silk Road restaurant at the Vdara hotel, City Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Panoramic photo of the Las Vegas Strip, Nevada.
I’m on an endless search for new and different vantage points for photographing the Las Vegas Strip, in the hope of improving on our Las Vegas photos.
I’m sorry to say that a few days of high winds and some business activity keep me from visiting Valley of the Fire, so to make up for it, tonight we are grabbing the tent and heading into Joshua Tree National Park – should be nice timing with the nearly full moon, warm weather and all. Should be a big change from Las Vegas!
Janet Airlines Terminal, Las Vegas, Nevada.
This may not be the greatest photo, but judging from a search on the internet, it seems to be a relatively rare photo. This is an aerial view of the secret government airlines (run by EG & G) that shuttles workers in unmarked planes to places like the Nevada Test Site better known as Area 51. The planes are white with a red strip down each side, with very small, almost unreadable N numbers.
Now that we have moved from Las Vegas to the Palm Springs area today, I feel safe in sharing this here. What? I think I already hear black helicopters moving in – better go! 🙂
Laser show, Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.
We found this vantage point last year after making our way through a 3 story mall on the south end of Fremont Street. This year we returned, and found the mall dark and vacant, still physically open. Now I gotta admit, there are a lot of people walking around downtown Las Vegas who I would rather not run into in a dark alley, or a dark mall for that matter, especially while carrying two expensive cameras and tripods (one was for shooting time-lapses).
We got set up and photographed the light show while nervously watching over our shoulders the whole time. Once the show wrapped up, I quickly folded up the tripods and we bolted for the exit with a feeling of relief, when suddenly 3 young guys came around the corner walking right towards us, saying something about cameras. These guys looked like trouble and there was no one else around. I gotta admit my heart began to race a bit as a put my hand in my jacket and readied the bear spray. I smiled and nodded hi, acting as relaxed as possible, and they did the same. Janine and I slipped into the elevator and watched the doors slowly close, breathing a huge sigh of relief as it began to lower us to the relative safety of the crowded street – one with plenty of police presence!
This a a combination of two images exposed 3 stops apart.
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