Recently my wife and I got to spend a weekend in the fabulous Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. It was a mini vacation that we both desperately needed. The view from our room was full of color and lights in the evening (right through until morning) and crowed with the hustle and bustle of the Strip all day long. Now you can enjoy the vision that greeted us each time we gazed out the window on your desktop. Click here to download the high resolution version: August 2016
Countdown to Daytona
With only 34 days left until the running of the #Daytona500 I thought I would share one of my favorite #NASCAR pictures from last year that doesn't have a car in it, and isn't even at a racetrack. For the race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway there is a hauler parade that takes place as the teams roll into town. All the transports gather at one end of "The Strip", while the police shut down traffic, and slowly, with all the glitz and flash of Las Vegas the eighteen wheelers roll through Sin City. The City of Lights celebrates a NASCAR weekend in its own special way. @Actionsports #ActionSports #MotorsportPhotography #SportsPhotography #LasVegas #Vegas #racing
2015 NASCAR rolls into Sin City
#TravelTuesday The Bellagio Fountains
One of the coolest and inexpensive things to see in Las Vegas is the fountain show in front of the Bellagio casino. The man made lake is roughly nine acres and houses fountains that can shoot water 150 feet into the air. The fountains erupt every half hour during the day and every quarter hour after nightfall. The performance is accompanied with music ranging from opera, to country, to pop songs. It is a refreshing breath of fresh air on the Las Vegas Strip.
Nikon D4 Sigma 15mm f/2.8 fish eye @ f/b ISO 2000 1/30 sec
Nikon D4 24-70mm f/2.8 Tamron @ 24mm f/8 ISO 2000 1/13 sec
#TravelTuesday Las Vegas
Last weekend I was covering the NASCAR races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway so my wife and I had a limited amount of time to see Vegas. We had visited there a few years ago, so we had a general idea of the layout. After walking for hours at the track all weekend we decided to set out for a few hours Sunday night and walk “The Strip”. It was a pleasant 70°F and clear skies. We started our trek late in the afternoon as the Sun was going down which was nice for some photography. The sky was turning a deep blue and of course the lights of Las Vegas lit up the town. I’ll spend the next few days recapping our journey, but between us, Vegas is fabulous this time of year, and it’s almost always cheap to get there.
Nikon D4, Tamron 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm f/8 ISO 800 1/13 sec