Pictures from Vegas

**John** · 23rd January 2012, 14:56

Being a photography nut, I always take pictures from places I visit, even if that's my fourth or fifth time visiting that place. And of course, I take a lot more pictures, if I am using a new camera.

This year, Santa was good to me, and a Fujifilm X100 ended up in my camera bag.

I am in love with my new toy, so I decided that I would only bring this camera to the SHOT Show this year. Reducing the weight of my carry-on bag by several kilos, was a promising factor. The fact that the tests I did before leaving, shooting pictures of a pistol, showed me that the camera produced the quality I wanted. So the X100 went in the carry-on bag and I left for Las Vegas.

You can see the pictures I shot at the SHOT Show in another thread, so here I'll present you with some other pictures I shot at my spare time.

Leaving from Athens airport early in the morning, allowed me the rare opportunity to see the mountains around the city capped with snow. This usually happens only once or twice a year.

The Athens Airport train station.

Car

Heathrow Airport

Orange bridge

Jumbo jet taking off.

Heathrow Airport bridge

The Rear Food Company

Riviera Hotel

Reception

Asian Restaurant

Light

Reflection of the sun reflection in a window (yes, that's what it is, the reflection of the sun reflection)

Apartment building

The Stratosphere

Porsche

The Stratosphere 2

Restaurant

People jumping off a building from 900 ft!!!!

**John** · 23rd January 2012, 15:04

A restaurant in the Stratosphere

And another restaurant

The Bar

Trump Hotel

Encore

Sidewalk

Only in Vegas you can see a ship inside a hotel yard

The Palazzo

It makes me dizzy

The Palazzo 2

The Mirage

The Palazzo 3

Reminds me of Venice

Street pattern

Wynn and some ... cheap shops

Waterfall

The Encore sign

Another restaurant

Only in Vegas you can see something like that, outside a hotel (the Riviera)

**John** · 23rd January 2012, 15:13

Riviera's casino

Another restaurant inside Riviera

The ship, again

Inside the Fashion Show Mall (the friendliest Apple Store in town is there)

I always wonder what those desert bushes were, when I saw them in old western movies

Another "make you dizzy" floor

Venetian bridge at the Venetian

Fountain

Tour bus

This guy was making cigars, in a tobacco store, he didn't speak a word of English

Riviera Lobby

Sunset in Vegas

Circus-Circus entrance

Las Vegas McCarran Airport

Store in McCarran

NJ from the plane

Hudson River, in early afternoon

Wingtip

Trying to catch the shadow

New York at night or is it London early in the morning?

**Spyros** · 23rd January 2012, 17:02

Great work John!

That is NOT London in the last picture (there's a really easy way to tell!).

**ncviking** · 23rd January 2012, 18:40

WOW! That is quite a capable camera!....the photog ain't bad either!!

**FerdinandII** · 23rd January 2012, 20:27

Maybe he flipped the negative, so the tail lights are on the right hand side....

Originally Posted by Spyros

Great work John!

That is NOT London in the last picture (there's a really easy way to tell!).

**Spyros** · 24th January 2012, 04:05

Bingo!

I was a university student in the UK, on and off for 7 years... seeing the reversed traffic lights from the plane, when it came to land, was a useful reminder!

**garrettwc** · 24th January 2012, 10:40

When I saw Frank's picture of you holding your new toy I thought maybe you had fallen off the Leica/film bandwagon again. I didn't even occur to me that it was digital.

How do you like it? Can you use it like a true rangefinder or do you have to use the screen on the back? The shots look awesome!

This guy was making cigars, in a tobacco store, he didn't speak a word of English

I bet that was a good cigar.

Originally Posted by Spyros

That is NOT London in the last picture (there's a really easy way to tell!).

I was going to say the big ferris wheel on the Thames, but the tail lights would work too.