Nevada Chrysler Building

Chrysler Building

This is a replica of the Chrysler Building. It is about one third the size of the original. It is not part of the New York city skyline in New York City, New York. It is part of the New York-New York city skyline in Las Vegas, Nevada.

They do not make Chrysler automobiles in either building. I do not know why it was ever called the Chrysler Building but I’m sure if you’re really interested there is probably a paragraph or two about it in Wikipedia.

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Back Alley

Emilio

Canon EOS Rebel T2i 1/50 sec at f/4.5, ISO 100 18 mm

My wife does not understand my fascination with garbage. To be honest, neither do I. If someone can help me out here with a response to her query, I’d be forever grateful. Well, maybe not forever, but a quip or off the wall retort would be most welcome. Why am I sitting here on this filthy concrete street, setting my camera on it’s tripod, to document a back alley in Las Vegas? Why am I not out front where the neon facade promises action, adventure, excitement, rather than sitting here feeling the damp and cold seep through my jeans?

“The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That’s my idea of fun.” ~ Yotam Ottolenghi

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

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Mandalay

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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

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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!

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Keep Memory Alive

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The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health treats patients with Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease, as well as frontotemporal dementia and multiple sclerosis. Designed by world famous architect Frank Gehry, it opened on May 21, 2010 in Las Vegas NV.

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The Real Paris

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Yes, folks, It’s the real Eiffel Tower. At the very real Paris Hotel and Casino in beautiful Las Vegas NV. Lower left, you can see the real fountains of The Bellagio Hotel.

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Talk About The Weather

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“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it!” ~~ (Wrongfully) Attributed to Mark Twain

So who is the great thinker who designed an outdoor shopping/ restaurant center in the middle of Las Vegas, with little to no shade, knowing the temperature exceeds 100 degrees during the summer months? My wife would reply, “it was a man, of course!”

Of course!

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