Author: Emilio Pasquale Photography

Bellagio Lights

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FotoSketcher lights.2

When Joe started Monochromia, he said nothing about adding textures to photos. Though some may now argue this is not, technically, a photo, it is black and white. Monochrome. So I would like to know what others think of the technique itself. Actually, I would love to know. Please be as honest and truthful- and brutal- as you want to be. This is my own private poll and might stop me from ever using a technique like this again.

Or not!

Oh yeah, the shot was taken just last week, on a cold, crisp, and very clear night in front of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

And if you haven’t given up on me yet, please visit Photos By Emilio every now and then to say hello. Visiting hours are 9 am to 5 pm every day of the week!

Monochromania, Welcome To Monochromia

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Mono

What a pain to get this shot, just for Monochromia. In case you didn’t know, everyone including their mother and uncle wants to get a shot of this sign when they’re visiting Las Vegas. What’s worse is the plethora (that’s a real word- look it up) of brides and grooms having their photos taken in full wedding regalia every day, every hour. I tell you if I got married in Las Vegas I’d find something better to do than go visit the Welcome sign right after saying “I do”! Why, I’d rather go back to the hotel room and- you know- consummate the marriage or something. And don’t think it was easy trying to find a couple of hours in the middle of the night when I could get out there and paint “Monochromia” over the words “Las Vegas” for this shot. Joe, I should get hazard pay, or something.

OK, OK, Joerg Thamer actually changed the sign from “Las Vegas” to “Monochromia” in processing for me. But I like my story better. As Joe Giordano says of Joerg, “God I wish I had his talent.”

Me, too!Mono back

Oh, I almost forgot. Please visit Photos By Emilio on your way out of town!

Make Room! Make Room!

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Factory

“The Year: 2022. The Place: New York City. The Population: 40,000,000”.

“Ocean’s dying, plankton’s dying… it’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!”

Quote from the 1973 movie Soylent Green. Sorry for the spoiler but if you haven’t seen this film yet, chances are you never will.

The film, which is closely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison, won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973.

I have no idea what type of product this particular plant produces but, out in the middle of the desert NE of Las Vegas would be the perfect place to process humans for food when the time comes!

And with that thought, please stop by and visit my personal blog, Photos By Emilio, if you get hungry!

Mandalay

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Mandalay

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ lazy at the sea,

There’s a Burma girl a-settin’, and I know she thinks o’ me;

For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the Temple-bells they say:

“Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!”

Rudyard Kipling

Valet Parking

Emilio
The Bellagio Hotel and Casino November 11, 2013 1.3 sec at f/5.6 ISO 400 10mm

The Bellagio Hotel and Casino
November 11, 2013
1.3 sec at f/5.6
ISO 400 10mm

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The Bellagio Hotel and Casino on the strip in Las Vegas is known for it’s fountains that are choreographed to piped in music. They dance every 20 minutes or so. They have become almost iconographic in that every Tom, Dick, and Harriet has to take a photo with their phone. (Does any body use a phone to talk anymore? I mostly text.) Anyway, I did take a couple or twenty shots of the fountains this night but found this image much more satisfying. Hope you do, too!

Please visit Photos By Emilio for images in color as well as black and white.

Burnt Offerings

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Burnt Offerings

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I have no funny stories to go along with this photo. On our way home from a family gathering in 2012, we came across a deserted town. The town was Geneva in either Iowa or Idaho. I think it was Idaho. But three days of driving left both of us a bit weary. We never really knew which state we were driving through.

I just want to wish every one a happy holiday time with family, with friends, alone. Whoever you are, where ever you are, make the best of it and smile!

Between now and the first of the year I will be re-posting a few old images on my personal blog, Photos By Emilio, that some of you might have missed. Please visit and leave a smile! Photos By Emilio is now just thirteen months old!

 

The Coffee Cup

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The Coffee Cup

The Coffee Cup opened in 1994 in the Old Town area of Boulder City Nevada, then relocated in 2003 to a much larger home just down the block, where it still offers breakfast and lunch from 6 am to 2 pm daily. In 2007, The Food Network aired a piece on Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” about the place. Today, The Cup employs 4 cooks, 1 prep cook, 2 dishwashers, 6 waitresses, 5 bus girls, and a hostess. All their food is home-made. For Joe, they have The Godfather Omelette with Italian sausage, tomato, olives, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, and cheddar cheese (Cheddar cheese? Shouldn’t it be mozzarella, provolone, even parmigiano? Well, at least they’re trying!)