I love skylines where one building, like the Stratosphere tower, stands head and shoulders above the rest -- the "Maypole effect." Las Vegas isn't for me (although it bloody well might be if it got something like 20 times the rain per year that it does), but these pictures are sweet indeed.
__________________
"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
|