Hoboken Stroll

Last month, I visited NYC and stayed with my buddy in Hoboken. These are some of the pictures I made during a walk to Bagel Smashery to get some amazing breakfast. Yes, they serve smashed bagels. Check out there website to learn more…

Central Park

 

 

Kolob Reflection, etc...

Maple

The "Fire Wave"

Finally, I made it to the elusive "Fire Wave" in Valley of Fire State Park. I wanted to visit this place since I saw a picture by Isabel Synnatschke and I read about this in her resourceful eGuide on Valley of Fire. Well, it is not as elusive as it used to be few years ago. But you still don't find many people out there.

I was there about half-an-hour before sunset and was accompanied by a friend of mine- Satyam. He was nice enough to model for me which helped me recreate a classic shot by Isabel Synnatschke. I was blessed with a nice sunset and was able to make some decent shots with different perspectives.

Urge

Urge, a photo by hdvegas on Flickr.

Lately, the light conditions in Las Vegas have been terrible for photography. Finally, we had a cloudy day with some scattered thunderstorms and the 4th of July holiday allowed me to fulfill my urge to make some landscape pictures. I headed to Red Rock NCA and made this HDR image. The light conditions were not that harsh and I did not have to make an HDR. But again today was all about fulfilling my photographic urge…I rarely try HDR and have never made an HDR image of the Red Rocks. I did go a little overboard with my processing but I again had an urge to make a cliché HDR image.

Happy Independence Day!

Cliché

is what I say when I make photographs of the Las Vegas Strip. Probably the reason behind that is I live here. Additionally, it is overly photographed and I believe that it belongs to the tourists. Or maybe I just take it for granted.

Well, I lived in India for my first twenty years, and I never photographed the city I lived in. Today, I am all excited about making photographs of my city whenever I take a trip to India. So what has changed? Maybe I do not take it for granted any more.  It has suddenly become an exotic location.

This is a lesson for me and I should change my attitude towards making photographs of the Las Vegas Strip. You never know…someday I may not belong here.