Las Vegas, looking west at sunset. This was taken through a gold tinted hotel room window, double panes. The windows in most hotels in Vegas are double paned to help with the air conditioning costs during most of the year. It also helps with the noise quite a bit.

The mountains to the west of Vegas have reddish stripes of rock in them, which of course can't be seen in this photograph. In fact, except for the Mandalay Bay sign I don't think you could really tell this is Vegas. I don't quite remember where I took this, but given what I see in the picture it was taken from inside the Mandalay Bay. This makes sense, as the windows there are gold tinted.

I take pictures like this even though I know they won't come out amazingly beautiful because I want to try and capture some of the flavor of a place. To share the feeling of being there. Sometimes beautiful photos don't look at all like the reality of a place. Sometimes a simple photo that is very realistic doesn't carry the feeling, the character of an experience. This is the challenge behind taking photos-- that I want to share more than just art. I want to share the experience.

So I stand in a hotel room on the 14th floor (which is really the 13th floor but isn't numbered that way because gamblers are superstitious so there is no 13th floor), and take photos of views that don't really look that great.

I am beginning to think I spend too much time in Las Vegas. Or at least, that I take too many pictures of it.