Feb. 7, 2007 - Sin City from the top of the Rio

Canon 5D, 24 - 70 mm f/2.8L @ 35 mm, f/2.8, 1/50 sec., ISO 640, Feb. 2006

If you like to do nighttime cityscapes, it's hard to beat Las Vegas. From an elevated vantage point like this, you can see that "Sin City" is very much an island in the desert. It's not like New York City or Boston where the lights stretch out forever. In Las Vegas, you can literally see where the city ends and the desert begins - the lights simply stop. That said, the "island" is, of course, growing at a very rapid rate......