I really enjoy looking at this image at 100% because it’s clearly just mushed pixels, almost pointillistic in nature.
Tag Archives: Arizona This image was taken after I took my walk. The bridge extends 70ft out from the canyon wall and the vertical drop at that point is over 4,000ft. As I’ve gotten older I’ve become more ‘height aware’. So most of the time I kept my feed above one of the two steel tracks that supports the glass floor, though I did take a few steps on the glass floor to pass some other people. It was freaky! show 2 comments 
Very well done Richard. I can’t imagine waling out on the glass. The photo you have here is fantastic, and I love the composition. 
Thanks Royce. There are two horse-shoe shaped steel beams, each about a foot wide, that support the glass. Most people walk over those, but it’s still freaky and if you want to move past someone admiring the view, stepping on the glass over the void is your only choice. It’s one of those situation where your brain tells you it’s safe and your mind is telling you something completely different!  So I’ll post a few more Hoover Dam photos this week, then move on. This is a view of the Nevada Powerplant that one can tour if you visit the dam. There are a couple of tours you can take, a 30-minute tour or a one hour tour. I got there relatively late in the… no comments  So, continuing with the theme from yesterday, this is what it’s like to look down the face of the Hoover Dam. The Colorado River is about 700 feet below the top of the dam. To the left is Arizona, to the right is Nevada. The white concrete shape in the top right corner is part… show 1 comment 
[...] my earlier shot looking down the face of the Hoover Dam it’s a detail of the surface of the water between the two generator [...]  One of my goals for 2012 is to post a photo daily. It’s the first of the year so this is the first photo! I took this photo of Meteor Crater back in 2006 while flying on a commercial jet from Las Vegas to Houston. Meteor Crater is about 40 miles west of Winslow, Arizona…. show 2 comments 
Amazing shot! My wife and I went to Meteor Crater earlier this year so if you want an “on the ground” photographic perspective here it is! http://www.camelsandchocolate.com/2011/08/photo-friday-meteor-crater-arizona/ 
Brings back happy memories, I took the detour but Mavis had a bad head, Sun got to her I think SHE WASN’T IMPRESSED, The 80 mile detour wasn’t worthy it. BUT IT JOLLY WELL WAS! I looked at the climb down, thought of the climb UP and chickened out, contented my self with a walk round the rim, this gave her plenty of time in the Visitor Centre (to cool off?) and the opportunity to learn more.(note the careful use of language). NASA didn’t help their image by useing the crater for training, giving rise to several realistic images. |
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