Tag Archives: Las Vegas
Doing What An iPhone Could Never Do
I got a Canon Vixia camcorder a while back, hoping to produce videos with it instead of my iPhone. My phone produces high resolution video but it is of course limited in what it can do. This morning I was … Continue reading
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Tagged canon vixia, helicopter, iPhone camera, iPhone limitations, Las Vegas, Nevada, Red Rock Canyon, video, zoom lens
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Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
Took a walk at Red Rock today, just west of Las Vegas, only ten miles from where I live. Below: looking north to iron stained hills at dusk Below: looking south to a limestone outcropping with Yucca Below: desert wash
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Tagged fall day, hiking, Las Vegas, Nevada, red rock, Red Rock Canyon, red rock canyon national conservation area, walking
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Las Vegas to Oakland From The Air
Photos taken through a plane window on the way from Oakland to Las Vegas and back. No Photoshop adjustment save for one picture. That adjustment _did_ make the photo look better. Active Cargill Salt Ponds, San Francisco Bay near Newark. … Continue reading
That Was Intense!
“An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.” From the movie Repo Man. This morning I had Mohs surgery to remove a basal cell carcinoma from underneath my left … Continue reading
First Attempt at Photographing a Fluorescent Specimen
I’ve taken an interest in fluorescent rocks. This is my first attempt at photographing such a specimen. It’s a piece of petrified wood I found at Blue Diamond Nursery in Las Vegas, better known as Cactus Joes. (external link). The … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Diamond Nursery, Cactus Joes, EXIF, fluorescence, Las Vegas, minerals, night time photography, Nursery, petrified wood, Photography, rocks
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