City Center - Las Vegas Panoramic
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I spent a good long while messing around with my distortion tool in Photoshop, but as it turns out the buildings in the middle were built crooked... You are looking at the "City Center" complex which is made up of 5 separate complexes including hotels, casinos, shopping areas and condos.
City Center is built upon 76 Acres (yes, you read that right) and holds over 16.7m square feet of commercial space. While it was being built, it was the largest privately funded construction project in the history of United States. It was originally planned for billion in construction costs, it is already over .5b at the date of the picture. Six people have died since construction began in 2006.
The five major areas are: Vdara (Hotel and Spa), Aria (Hotel and Casino), Mandarin Oriental (Non-Gaming Hotel and Condo), Veer (Condos) and The Crystals (Shopping Center). This facility officially opened in December 2009. Most of the 2,400 condos are still vacant I believe and many are being used as hotel rooms in the interim (until the economy improves). Even without the 2,400 condos, there are over 4,800 hotel rooms in this complex. The inside is even more beautiful than the outside - if you get a chance to go in I highly recommend spending some time here.
You won't find much information about the Harmon Hotel (the blue glass building second from right) on the City Center Website. This is the subject of a fierce debate / lawsuit since it was deemed "dangerous" and slated for demolition. No one has said what will go in its place. Apparently it is not architecturally sound - but that crooked building "Veer" is. Ironic, isn't it?
More information:
www.citycenter.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityCenter
www.flickr.com/photos/w4nd3rl0st/6324273823/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harmon
www.lvrj.com/business/mgm-resorts-targets-harmon-hotel-fo...
Shot with a Canon 7d and 15-85 lens. This was made from 5 separate HDR images at 6am.
Schweizer Alpen Panorama - Layers
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EOS 7D | 1/250 | f/9.5 | 32 mm | ISO 200
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Ascott House Gardens, Buckinghamshire, UK | National Trust gardens with innovative earth sculpture in the Lynn Garden (2 of 22)
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Ascott House Gardens, Buckinghamshire, UK: The attractive gardens at Ascott House, a UK National Trust property in Buckinghamshire, England have an extensive mixture of formal, informal and natural garden features.
A visit to Ascott House provides a lot of variety and different types of garden environment. It is particularly impressive in spring time with massed plantings of spring bulbs as far as the eye can see. The wide herbaceous borders in summer are excellent too and all year interest is provided by the land art in the Lynn garden.
This photo shows some of the earth sculpture or land art in the Lynn garden. The white flowering trees really enliven the garden at this time of year.
Details Features range from fields of daffodils, narcissi and fritillaries beneath mature trees in spring; flowering meadows of tulips and spring bulbs; traditional English herbaceous borders with stunning planting in high summer; colorful bedding plant schemes surrounding impressive and grand fountains (such as the Venus and Cupid / Eros fountains by the famous American sculptor Thomas Waldo Story); a picturesque lily pond and thatched summerhouse; neatly clipped yew hedges and even a topiary sundial.
A relatively new feature of the garden is an innovative area devoted to ‘land art’ or ‘earth sculpture’ where mounds of earth and ditches (echoing the earth works of Iron Age Britain on the nearby Chiltern Hills) are planted with grasses, ornamental trees and combined with tasteful water features. The many shades of green are soothing to the eye and give this part of the garden (called the Lynn Garden) a very tranquil atmosphere.
Location: Ascot House, Wing, near Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire, LU7 0PS, UK
UK OSGB Map Reference: OS165:SP891230
Links: A brief description of the house and gardens, together with opening details, is given on the National Trust, Ascott House website.
© 2011 ukgardenphotos
Ascott House Gardens, Buckinghamshire, UK | A view of the Rothschild's house surrounded by daffodils in spring (11 of 22)
Image by ukgardenphotos
Ascott House Gardens, Buckinghamshire, UK: The attractive gardens at Ascott House, a UK National Trust property in Buckinghamshire, England have an extensive mixture of formal, informal and natural garden features.
A visit to Ascott House provides a lot of variety and different types of garden environment. It is particularly impressive in spring time with massed plantings of spring bulbs as far as the eye can see. The wide herbaceous borders in summer are excellent too and all year interest is provided by the land art in the Lynn garden.
This photograph was taken late on a spring afternoon. It is a view looking across a field of daffodils towards the Rothchild's house.
Details Features range from fields of daffodils, narcissi and fritillaries beneath mature trees in spring; flowering meadows of tulips and spring bulbs; traditional English herbaceous borders with stunning planting in high summer; colorful bedding plant schemes surrounding impressive and grand fountains (such as the Venus and Cupid / Eros fountains by the famous American sculptor Thomas Waldo Story); a picturesque lily pond and thatched summerhouse; neatly clipped yew hedges and even a topiary sundial.
A relatively new feature of the garden is an innovative area devoted to ‘land art’ or ‘earth sculpture’ where mounds of earth and ditches (echoing the earth works of Iron Age Britain on the nearby Chiltern Hills) are planted with grasses, ornamental trees and combined with tasteful water features. The many shades of green are soothing to the eye and give this part of the garden (called the Lynn Garden) a very tranquil atmosphere.
Location: Ascot House, Wing, near Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire, LU7 0PS, UK
UK OSGB Map Reference: OS165:SP891230
Links: A brief description of the house and gardens, together with opening details, is given on the National Trust, Ascott House website.
© 2011 ukgardenphotos
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