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I absolutely adore this picture, and in this I'm probably alone. I love how it's heavily divided into radically different shapes and colours, I love the blurred people and the slightly blurred car and the totally sharp background. As a totally accidental shot, I still can't help thinking it looks like a book cover. Very very happy with this one indeed.
This is a shot I took on my recent trip to Vegas. It was my first time there so naturally I didnt have any time at all for photos, even though thats the main reason I wanted to go.
A7 | Ad. M42 | 70' Soviet Bellows MMZ (-> 20 cm) | Ad. M39 | Vega-11U
Sony A7
M39 Soviet enlarger lens Vega-11U 50/2.8
Vue de nuit du Las Vegas Strip, avec ses lumières.
Le traffic est tel qu'avec une pose longue les lumières des véhicules forment des trainées lumineuses.
The boys rolled into Vegas in style for the annual Intellects band reunion. Truthfully, Vegas ain't much to look at during the daytime. It's the night time lights that really grab you. So, it seemed like a good time for a little sliding.
Happy Slider's Sunday everyone. Check out the Intellect's reunion poster in the comments section below.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Vega - OOAK resin ED by Marina Bychkova
Sofa by Югарт (Julya Gartung)
jewellry by Elenatsy
outfit by me
Mixture of portraits and hanging out shots with the wife while on vacation in Vegas! Feel free to leave input.
Well... I made it. I've been in Las Vegas for the past couple of days, and I just remembered something... I hate Vegas!
Well... Vegas is 'interesting'. There's certainly plenty going on along the strip. It's just so overwhelming, I walk down the strip with my head kind of spinning, thinking 'how am I going to capture this insanity on a still photo.
So far, in two days time, I have seen several Elvises, including one midget Elvis. A big group of people completely covered with tattoos from head to toe, a couple guys even had their heads shaved so the top of their head was tattooed. I saw Spiderman. Superman. Iron Man. Captain Jack Sparrow. A few Transformers. A huge, muscular guy wearing a dress. A green guy (maybe he was fired from the Blue Man Crew for wearing the wrong color makeup) A group of religious freaks. BTW... Jesus is coming soon. (note to self... I must repent now) (how does one go about, 'repenting?')
Anyway... I just shot this tonight. This is the view from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Yes, there's an Eiffel Tower here. There's also the Seattle Space Needle, the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, a Pyramid... etc, etc, etc...
Paris Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, USA, that is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corp.. As its name suggests, its theme is the city of Paris in France; it includes a half scale, 541-foot (165 m) tall replica of the Eiffel Tower, a sign in the shape of the Montgolfier balloon, a two-thirds size Arc de Triomphe, a replica of La Fontaine des Mers, and a 1,200-seat theatre called Le Théâtre des Arts. The front of the hotel suggests the Paris Opera House and the Louvre.
The Paris is linked via a promenade to its sister property, Bally's Las Vegas, through which it is linked to the Las Vegas Monorail.
Questa foto è stata scattata con una Canon 7D + Canon 15-85 is
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of South Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip is approximately 4.2 miles (6.8 km) in length,located immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester. However, the Strip is often referred to as being in Las Vegas.
Many of the largest hotel, casino, and resort properties in the world are located on the Las Vegas Strip. The road's cityscape is highlighted by its use of contemporary architecture, lights and wide variety of attractions. Its hotels, casinos, restaurants, residential high-rises, entertainment offerings, and skyline have established the Las Vegas Strip as one of the most popular and iconic tourist destinations in the United States, and the world. Most of the Strip has also been designated an All-American Road,and is considered a scenic route at night.
Historically, the casinos that were not in Downtown Las Vegas along Fremont Street were limited to outside the city limits on Las Vegas Boulevard. In 1959, the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign was constructed exactly 4.5 miles (7.2 km) outside the city limits. The sign is today located in the median just south of Russell Road, across from the now-demolished Klondike Hotel & Casino, about 0.4 miles (0.64 km) south of the southernmost entrance to Mandalay Bay (the southernmost casino).
In the strictest sense, "the Strip" refers only to the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that is roughly between Sahara Avenue and Russell Road, a distance of 4.2 miles (6.8 km). However, the term is often used to refer not only to the road but also to the various casinos and resorts that line the road, and even to properties that are not on the road but in proximity. Phrases such as Strip Area, Resort Corridor or Resort District are sometimes used to indicate a larger geographical area, including properties 1 mile (1.6 km) or more away from Las Vegas Boulevard, such as the Hard Rock, Rio, Palms, and Hooters casinos.
A long-standing definition considers the Strip's northern terminus as the SLS, though travel guides typically extend it to include the Stratosphere, 0.4 miles (0.64 km) to the north. Mandalay Bay, located just north of Russell Road, is the southernmost resort considered to be on the Strip (the Klondike was the southernmost until 2006, when it was closed, although it was not included in Las Vegas Strip on some definitions and travel guides).
Because of the number and size of the resorts, the Resort Corridor can be quite wide. Interstate 15 runs roughly parallel and 0.5 to 0.8 miles (0.80 to 1.29 km) to the west of Las Vegas Boulevard for the entire length of the Strip. Paradise Road runs to the east in a similar fashion, and ends at St. Louis Avenue. The eastern side of the Strip is bounded by McCarran International Airport south of Tropicana Avenue.
North of this point, the Resort Corridor can be considered to extend as far east as Paradise Road, although some consider Koval Lane as a less inclusive boundary. Interstate 15 is sometimes considered the western edge of the Resort Corridor from Interstate 215 to Spring Mountain Road. North of this point, Industrial Road serves as the western edge.
Newer resorts such as South Point and the M Resort are on Las Vegas Boulevard South as distant as 8 miles south of the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign. Marketing for these casinos usually states that they are on southern Las Vegas Boulevard and not "Strip" properties.
The first casino to be built on Highway 91 was the Pair-o-Dice Club in 1931, but the first on what is currently the Strip was the El Rancho Vegas, opening on April 3, 1941, with 63 rooms. That casino stood for almost 20 years before being destroyed by a fire in 1960. Its success spawned a second hotel on what would become the Strip, the Hotel Last Frontier, in 1942. Organized crime figures such as New York's Bugsy Siegel took interest in the growing gaming center leading to other resorts such as the Flamingo, which opened in 1946, and the Desert Inn, which opened in 1950. The funding for many projects was provided through the American National Insurance Company, which was based in the then notorious gambling empire of Galveston, Texas.
The Strip in the 1940s. Pictured is the gas station of the Hotel Last Frontier, the second hotel on the Strip.
Las Vegas Boulevard South was previously called Arrowhead Highway, or Los Angeles Highway. The Strip was named by Los Angeles police officer and businessman Guy McAfee, after his hometown's Sunset Strip.
Caesars Palace was established in 1966. In 1968, Kirk Kerkorian purchased the Flamingo and hired Sahara Hotels Vice President Alex Shoofey as President. Alex Shoofey brought along 33 of Sahara's top executives. The Flamingo was used to train future employees of the International Hotel, which was under construction. Opening in 1969, the International Hotel, with 1,512 rooms, began the era of mega-resorts. The International is known as Westgate Las Vegas today. The first MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, also a Kerkorian property, opened in 1973 with 2,084 rooms. At the time, this was one of the largest hotels in the world by number of rooms. The Rossiya Hotel built in 1967 in Moscow, for instance, had 3,200 rooms; however, most of the rooms in the Rossiya Hotel were single rooms of 118 sq. ft (roughly 1/4 size of a standard room at the MGM Grand Resort). On November 21, 1980, the MGM Grand suffered the worst resort fire in the history of Las Vegas as a result of electrical problems, killing 87 people. It reopened eight months later. In 1986, Kerkorian sold the MGM Grand to Bally Manufacturing, and it was renamed Bally's.
The Wet 'n Wild water park opened in 1985 and was located on the south side of the Sahara hotel. The park closed at the end of the 2004 season and was later demolished. The opening of The Mirage in 1989 set a new level to the Las Vegas experience, as smaller hotels and casinos made way for the larger mega-resorts. The Rio and the Excalibur opened in 1990. These huge facilities offer entertainment and dining options, as well as gambling and lodging. This change affected the smaller, well-known and now historic hotels and casinos, like The Dunes, The Sands, the Stardust, and the Sahara.
The lights along the Strip have been dimmed in a sign of respect to six performers and one other major Las Vegas figure upon their deaths. They are Elvis Presley (1977), Sammy Davis Jr. (1990), Dean Martin (1995), George Burns (1996), Frank Sinatra (1998), former UNLV basketball head coach Jerry Tarkanian (2015), and Don Rickles (2017). The Strip lights were dimmed later in 2017 as a memorial to victims of a mass shooting at a concert held adjacent to the Strip.[15] In 2005, Clark County renamed a section of Industrial Road (south of Twain Avenue) as Dean Martin Drive, also as a tribute to the famous Rat Pack singer, actor, and frequent Las Vegas entertainer.
In an effort to attract families, resorts offered more attractions geared toward youth, but had limited success. The (current) MGM Grand opened in 1993 with MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park, but the park closed in 2000 due to lack of interest. Similarly, in 2003 Treasure Island closed its own video arcade and abandoned the previous pirate theme, adopting the new ti name.
In addition to the large hotels, casinos and resorts, the Strip is home to a few smaller casinos and other attractions, such as M&M World, Adventuredome and the Fashion Show Mall. Starting in the mid-1990s, the Strip became a popular New Year's Eve celebration destination.
Recent years (2000–present)
Four-segment panorama of The Cosmopolitan, Bellagio, and Caesars Palace (left to right) from the Las Vegas Strip, across from the Bellagio fountains.
Gondolas outside of The Venetian.
With the opening of Bellagio, Venetian, Palazzo, Wynn and Encore resorts, the strip trended towards the luxurious high end segment through most of the 2000s, while some older resorts added major expansions and renovations, including some de-theming of the earlier themed hotels. High end dining, specialty retail, spas and nightclubs increasingly became options for visitors in addition to gambling at most Strip resorts. There was also a trend towards expensive residential condo units on the strip.
In 2004, MGM Mirage announced plans for CityCenter, a 66-acre (27 ha), $7 billion multi-use project on the site of the Boardwalk hotel and adjoining land. It consists of hotel, casino, condo, retail, art, business and other uses on the site. City Center is currently the largest such complex in the world. Construction began in April 2006, with most elements of the project opened in late 2009. Also in 2006, the Las Vegas Strip lost its longtime status as the world's highest-grossing gambling center, falling to second place behind Macau.
In 2012, the High Roller Ferris wheel and a retail district called The LINQ Promenade broke ground, in an attempt to diversify attractions beyond that of casino resorts. Renovations and rebrandings such as The Cromwell Las Vegas and the SLS Las Vegas continued to transform The Strip in 2014. The Las Vegas Festival Grounds opened in 2015. In 2016, the T-Mobile Arena, The Park, the Lucky Dragon Hotel and Casino, and the Park Theatre opened. Smaller changes and developments are taking place as well.
On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred on the Strip at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, adjacent to the Mandalay Bay hotel. This incident became the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history.
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VEGAS!! Raining when we got there..but clearing up nicely... great room at the Mirage..great view!
El pueblo de Vega, muy cerca del término municipal de Saro, fue el solar de donde procedía el genial dramaturgo del Siglo de Oro, Lope de Vega, conocido como el "Fénix de los Ingenios" y que alcanzó un reconocimiento internacional. www.cantabriajoven.com/villafufre/index.html
Esta es la casona montañesa natal, de Lope de Vega; uno de los más importantes poetas y dramaturgos del Siglo de Oro español y, por la extensión de su obra, uno de los más prolíficos autores de la literatura universal; esta casa ahora biblioteca, distribuida en dos plantas separadas por imposta con zaguán abierto por dos arcos de medio punto y gran escudo soportado por leones, con las armas de Castillo, Vega y Miera, centrado en la planta principal. En la corralada de esta casa se sitúa un rollo heráldico con un altorelieve que recuerda al escritor afincado en Madrid.
Paseo literario, de Quevedo a Lope de Vega y Calderón de La Barca
C. Fernández /F. Pelayo
«Si no vencí reyes moros engendré quien los venciera». Cuando el insigne montañés Menéndez Pelayo escribió estos versos se refería a tres grandes nombres de la Literatura Universal: Lope de Vega, Quevedo y Calderón de la Barca. Ninguno de ellos nació en Cantabria pero los tres tienen apellidos montañeses y solar conocido en la Montaña.
En la margen derecha del río Pas se encuentra Bejorís, el pueblo que Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas visitó, según cuentan las crónicas, cuando era joven para conocer el origen de sus ancestros. De la casa, situada en el barrio de Cereceda, hoy sólo se conserva una piedra que recuerda la vinculación del lugar con el escritor. La casa, de dos pisos, tenía tierras y frutales alrededor, pero cuando el literato la visitó debía de encontrarse semiderruida. «Es mi casa solariega mucho más que no las otras, pues que, por falta de techo, la da el sol a todas horas». Así describió Quevedo la casa de sus progenitores.
Aunque los orígenes de Calderón de la Barca se sitúan en Viveda, una población cercana a Torrelavega, existe Casa en el valle de Toranzo. Donde más abunda el apellido es en San Martín, San Vicente y Bárcena. Calderón recuerda sus orígenes en la comedia de enredo «Guárdate del agua mansa», donde aparece un montañés indiano.
Camino de Santander y antes de llegar a Puente Viesgo y saliendo del Valle, a mano derecha, hay un desvío al pueblo de La Vega. En este lugar nació el padre de Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio. Un sencillo monumento recuerda el lugar donde se encontraba el solar de Vega. Lope de Vega presumió siempre de sus orígenes montañeses: «Más ya Lope de Vega humilde llega, que aunque de su fortuna fue tu ribera su primera cuna, le dieron las Montañas otra Vega».
Según los estudiosos de la obra de Lope de Vega, el literato fue engendrado en la Montaña. «Tiene su silla en la bordada alfombra de Castilla, el valor de la Montaña que el Valle de Carriedo España nombra/Allá otro tiempo se cifraba España; allí tuve principio; ¿más que importa nacer laurel y ser humilde caña?». Así relataba Lope en los versos de la Epístola a Amarilís sus orígenes. www.loscantabros.com/hemeroteca/toranzo.html
This was our view from our balcony at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas this year, there's not too many balconies in Vegas so we were pretty chuffed!
Vega Alpha Lyrae 25.02.2018
The brightest star in the constellation of Lyra, the fifth-brightest star in the night sky, and the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus. It is relatively close at only 25 light-years from the Sun, and, together with Arcturus and Sirius, one of the most luminous stars in the Sun's neighborhood.
Skywatcher 100ED - first light :)
Canon 700d
Celestron CGEM unguided
ISO400 14x60s
Resolution ........ 1.599 arcsec/px
Rotation .......... -81.131 deg
Focal ............. 554.75 mm
Pixel size ........ 4.30 um
Field of view ..... 2d 18' 46.6" x 1d 32' 37.4"
Image center ...... RA: 18 36 27.724 Dec: +38 44 31.98
Las Vegas (often abbreviated as "Vegas") is the most populous city in the state of Nevada, United States, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment. Although established in 1905, Las Vegas officially became a city in 1911. With the growth that followed, Las Vegas became the most populous American city founded in the 20th century, proceeding the 19th century founding of Chicago. As the 28th most populous city in the United States, Las Vegas is one of the most populous cities in the American West.
The name Las Vegas is often applied to the unincorporated areas of Clark County that surround the city, especially the resort areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip. This 4.5-mile (7.2-km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard is mostly outside the city limits, in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester.
Las Vegas, billed as The Entertainment Capital of the World, is famous for massive and lavish casino resorts, the unrestricted availability of alcoholic beverages (as is true throughout Nevada), and adult entertainment. Once officially referred to as Sin City, this image made Las Vegas a popular setting for films and television programs.
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This was taken right after we got off the ride at the very top of the Stratosphere in Vegas! !As soon as you walk off the ride and come back down the elevator(ride is at the top of the bldg.)they pull you aside and flash a photo!
Vegas bodysuit will be available Feb 15th at Bombshells event
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I did a brief visit to Las Vegas last week to do some shooting. Vegas has never been my favorite place, but it is interesting to shoot.
Walking the strip in 105º heat was fun. And now my collection of stripper trading cards is nearly complete. At least the mist from the Bellagio fountain feels really nice when it's 105º That is the fountain you can see spraying up behind the bridge.
I figured I'd post a few at once to get it over with.
Now back to landscapes.