I really enjoy looking at this image at 100% because it’s clearly just mushed pixels, almost pointillistic in nature.
Tag Archives: las vegas 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! 
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!  Arguably the best viewpoint in the Death Valley National Park is Dante’s View. Although only about a mile east-south-east from Badwater, it’s more than a mile vertically above it in elevation! It’s a 40 mile round trip from Badwater, the last 5 miles being restricted to vehicles less than 25ft long. It’s a paved road…  The ruins of Ashford Mill sit just south of Route 178 at the southern end of Death Valley in California and about 25 miles west of Shoshone. In the background of this shot are the Black Mountains; the road on the right leading back to Shoshone. The mill was built around 1914-15 (different web sites… 
[...] I’d try the dirt road capabilities of my rented Infiniti G35 Coupe. A few miles north of Ashford Mill on Route 178 you can turn left onto the West Side Road. Aptly named, this 40-mile dirt road takes [...]  Another of my images from the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, about 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas. This is Rainbow Vista. As you travel through the park on Route 169 there’s a turnoff to the north to the Visitor Center. Continuing north, the road passes through some canyons before opening out onto…  This is a wide angle view of the Bowl of Fire. As the crow flies, it’s about 30 miles east of Las Vegas to the north side of Northshore Road in the Lake Mead National Recreational Area. While the work ‘fire’ might lead some to think it’s volcanic in origin, the red rocks are actually…
[...] of Fire So yesterday I posted a wide angle (17mm) shot of the Bowl of Fire and today I’m posting a detail. If you look at yesterday’s shot there are two outcrops [...]  This image was taken looking east along North Shore Road in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. There are some spectacular desert vistas along this road.  This image is of the memorial to Captain John Clark. Clark was a Civil War veteran who moved to California after the end of the war. He was found dead under his wagon on June 15, 1915, near this spot.
[...] (pdf). Elephant Rock is plainly visible from Route 169, a couple of miles or so east of the Clark Memorial near the eastern entrance to the park. As I recall, there’s no pull-off on the road and [...] 
Re Bozos, these are a sure sign of a Civilised Society, the loss of the struggle to survive stimulates the productiuon of them.  Ever since I had my own transport, I’ve taken off on these solo journeys – by car or motorcycle – to see what I could see. I was in Las Vegas in 2006 because my wife was attending a conference and I was tagging along. So while she was soaking up knowledge, I was soaking…
Drove across the dam on our way home to you, stopped to take in a visit to the workings Mavis had very sore feet from the heat in Vegas so it was a bit of a tip toe visit, we were on a curtuitous route home to you, apart from the 18 wheelers on the hairpins back up the Police had seen fit to stop a couple of cars and carry out a detailed search, caused a hair raising restriction in the road width of which they seemed blissfully anaware.
They say the desert only flowers once in a hundred years but it looks as if it is a daily occurence if your in the right place.  Of course, no visit to the Hoover Dam is complete without an aerial view. Now you can get a view from the Mike O’Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. I don’t know if you’re allowed to stop on the bridge to take photos – probably not. As you can see in the lower left and… 
Cool photo, just a note that you can’t stop on the bridge but there is a parking lot where you can walk to the bridge and get some great images.
Hi Roy, thanks for sharing that!
[...] business. I rose super early and drove out from Las Vegas, crossing from Nevada into Arizona at the Hoover Dam and out along Highway 93, taking a left at Pierce Ferry Road and heading north-east before taking a [...] |
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