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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 day and just took the 30-minute tour. You take an elevator 530 down through the canyon walls to the power plant. The powerplant room is […]
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 of the visitor’s center. Taken in 2006, in the upper right corner you can also see the supports of what would become the Mike O-Callaghan […]
I took this photo of a pleasure boat on Lake Mead back in 2006. The white layer of rock shows just how low the water level had dropped. The water has bleached the rock and as the level has dropped so the bleached layer has been exposed. The photo is taken from the top of the Hoover Dam. Since i took this photo the bypass bridge has been competed and traffic can now avoid winding down into the canyon to […]
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. If you find yourself in the area it’s well worth a detour. There’s a visitor center on the northern rim with good views into the […]
So I follow a bunch of Photographers over on Google+, one of them being Brian Matiash. Brian had a post recently where he stated he found it very challenging to stop and smell the roses. Since Brian’s post was illustrated with a view towards Otter Cliff, Acadia, Maine, I decided to illustrate this post with a view from the other side of the headland, Otter Cove. Brian’s post was interesting because I found myself agreeing with him. I normally run-and-gun […]
Once again I’m traveling and once again I’m relying on my iPad. Following a conversation with David Ziser I purchased a Delkin Devices card reader to transfer files from my camera to my iPad. When I used it a week ago I got a good transfer rate transferring images from my CF card. Today, with my iPad battery reading 69% when I try to download the the images from an SD card im getting a message telling me the card […]
