Auto Collection at Imperial Palace: Part 3

This post is a continuation of the photo set I shot while touring the stunning car collection at the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Last Days of Autumn

With the warm weather stretching into mid-October, our fall this year has lasted longer than usual and a lot of the trees are still holding their golden leaves.  It makes a lot of the neighbourhoods look more on theme as far as Halloween movies are usually concerned, because it's not unusual that our trees are bare by this point and we're shoveling snow. Maybe it's just me, but a lot of the nice old homes around here are starting to remind me of Monster House.  

I've been playing with a lot of new filters lately, and these pictures of autumn around Medicine Hat were some of my first experiments.  Mostly I've added textures to my shots to play up the rustic side of the season.  I even got some nice pictures of the clay district from Scholten Hill, as well as wider shots of some of the other areas I've photographed for my series this year.    

If anything, the changing weather is further motivation to shoot as much as I can while the temperature allows it.  It hurts my head to think about where the time has gone, but there's really not all that much left of 2012.  Soak it up while you can. 

A shot looking down to the train station.

Downtown with the Assiniboia Inn in the background.

The flats with Medalta Potteries on the right.

From Scholten Hill with the Brick & Tile plant on the bottom left.

In the distance you can see the bend in the river around Police Point Park.

Afternoons on the Vegas Strip

Despite the crazy heat during the afternoons, we killed a ton of time on our Vegas trip just wandering around and enjoying the scene along the strip.  I don't think I left my room at Vdara earlier than noon on any day of my vacation, but our central location had us checking out the Bellagio, Paris, and Planet Hollywood fairly frequently.  We also spent quite a bit of time enjoying the southern end of the strip on our walk to the Luxor, and I snapped a lot of pictures of the plaza out front of the Venetian on the afternoon that we got our tickets for the Blue Man Group. 

As I'd hoped, we left the mornings for sleeping in, spent the afternoons casually exploring, and saved the evenings for more lively outings.  The drinking and gambling was never out of control, but I'd say I was fairly consistent at finding time for it when the opportunity arose.  The following shots, more or less, are just a showcase of our afternoon downtime between attractions.