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Myself and my group of fellow storm chasers snowmobiling in Feb 2012 in Colorado's contiental divide.

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Came across some of these folks near City Hall in Toronto the weekend of June 23, 2012. They're looking for tips / donations ... But at least they're not ashamed nor hiding what they need $$$ for!

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4th of July music and fireworks in Sunrise, Florida near the arena (Sawgrass mall).

Posted: Jul 4, 2012, 8:28 PM

Funny name for a Chinese restaurant near Los Angeles, California while on travel there for job interview back in Feb 2007.

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Yosemite National Park - Feb 2013.

Posted: Feb 7, 2013, 10:11 AM

Beach near Point Reyes, CA - Feb 2013.

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Yosemite National Park - Feb 2013.

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Lower Yosemite Falls - Yosemite National Park - Feb 2013.

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Yosemite National Park - Feb 2013.

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Winery tasting room near Lodi, CA.

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Dungeness crab - Ready to cook!

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Yosemite National Park - Feb 2013.

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Golden Gate Bridge at night - San Francisco, CA in Feb 2013.

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Mavericks (Half Moon Bay, CA) surf in Feb 2013.

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Kim Son Monastery (Watsonville, CA) - Feb 2013

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Mavericks (Half Moon Bay, CA) surf in Feb 2013.

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Beach near Point Reyes, CA - Feb 2013.

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Point Reyes Lighthouse, CA - Feb 2013.

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Central Valley in California well south of Bakersfield in Feb 2013.

Posted: Feb 11, 2013, 6:36 PM

Chinese New Year in Westminster, CA - Feb 2013.

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Santa Cruz (Steamer Lane / Cowells), CA - Feb 2013.

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Chinese New Year in Westminster, CA - Feb 2013.

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I-5 in "Grapevine" Pass with snow levels below 2,500' (this is near 4,000') - California, Feb 2013.

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Laguna Beach, CA - Feb 2013.

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Chinese New Year in Westminster, CA - Feb 2013.

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Huntington Beach, CA - Feb 2013.

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Surfer at Huntington Beach, CA in Feb 2013.

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View down Castro Street at night - San Francisco, CA in Feb 2013.

Posted: Feb 13, 2013, 11:09 AM

View of San Francisco Bay, CA in Feb 2013.

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Prison cell in Alcatraz Prison - Feb 2013.

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Tunnel under Alcatraz Prison - Feb 2013.

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View of San Francisco, CA from Alcatraz Island in Feb 2013.

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Alcatraz Island - SF Bay, California in Feb 2013.

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San Francisco, CA - Feb 2013.

Posted: Feb 15, 2013, 9:03 AM

Looking west off north side of SF Bay - Pacific Ocean - Feb 2013.

Posted: Feb 15, 2013, 9:03 AM

Checking in to Brampton Motel 6 (Canada) and I find this little "surprise" greeting me at the door to my room! Welcome to Canada!

Posted: Mar 22, 2013, 6:37 AM

American Airline's online check in has so many issues. Would not let me check in, despite 40 free seats. Finally, at the kiosk, I got some "PNA Mismatch" error at the airport. Then, after a long wait for an agent, THIS was the seat I got - Squeezed between two 300+ pounders!

Posted: Mar 22, 2013, 6:37 AM

View (from video) approaching the edge of horseshoe falls off Table Rock (Ontario, Canada) in March 2013. I guess is what a person in a barrel might see?

Posted: Mar 22, 2013, 12:51 PM

Ready to go! Niagara "Faller" camera setup - March 2013 - Ontario Canada.

Posted: Mar 22, 2013, 12:51 PM

Camera kit just thrown into the top of horseshoe falls off Table Rock (Ontario, Canada) in March 2013. The rope allows it to be retreived after "going over" the edge.

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Approaching the turbulent edge of horseshoe falls off Table Rock (Ontario, Canada) in March 2013. Table Rock is to the left.

Posted: Mar 22, 2013, 12:51 PM

View (from video) in free-fall over the edge of horseshoe falls off Table Rock (Ontario, Canada) in March 2013. Video of this to be posted soon.

Posted: Mar 22, 2013, 12:51 PM

Camera finally going over the edge horseshoe falls off Table Rock (Ontario, Canada) in March 2013. Gravity does all the work after that!

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Camera "reeled" in using a 100' rope and back in my hands after going over the edge horseshoe falls off Table Rock (Ontario, Canada) in March 2013.

Posted: Mar 22, 2013, 12:51 PM

Big Texan steakhouse (Amarillo, Texas) ... Eat a 72 Oz steak with two sides and rolls and a drink in an hour or less ... And it's free! Many try, and many fail.

Posted: May 22, 2013, 10:05 PM

The 'Big Well' in Greensburg, Kansas in May 2013 - This is a hand dug well, about 110 feet deep, with clear water at the bottom (Ogalla Aquifer).

Posted: May 30, 2013, 12:18 AM

Hiking on Camelback Mountain - Near Phoenix, Arizona - October 2013 - Walking along steep ridge.

Posted: Oct 21, 2013, 4:39 PM

Hiking on Camelback Mountain - Near Phoenix, Arizona - October 2013 - Cactus.

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Hiking on Camelback Mountain - Near Phoenix, Arizona - October 2013 - Sheer cliff.

Posted: Oct 21, 2013, 4:39 PM

Here is myself at about 11,500 feet atop the continental divide in Colorado on Feb 14, 2014. What an awesome snow mobiling trip with my storm chasing buddies!

Posted: Feb 14, 2014, 2:33 PM

Memorial Cubano on Florida International University campus - March 2014 - Miami Dade county, Florida.

Posted: Mar 25, 2014, 5:34 PM

California coast south of Pacifica, CA - October 2014.

Posted: Oct 12, 2014, 12:11 PM

Abandoned "pill box" military post atop cliff (Near Pacifica, CA) - Oct 2014.

Posted: Oct 12, 2014, 12:11 PM

Near Da Nang, VN. Atop Huyen Khong Cave in the Marble Mountains.

Posted: Apr 8, 2016, 5:03 PM

Airport in Taiwan (escape slide).

Posted: Apr 24, 2016, 7:27 AM

Overflying Japan at high altitude (Boeing 777).

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Ho Chi Minh city and haze.

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Eva Air Boeing 777 in Taiwan.

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Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon).

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Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon). Independence Palace.

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Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon). Classic car an woman at museum.

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Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon).Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica.

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Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon). Post office.

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Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon). Bitexco Financial Tower.

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Cao Lãnh, Vietnam.

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Cao Lãnh, Vietnam. @[1269777015:2048:Vivian Vo].

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Cao Lãnh, Vietnam.

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Cao Lãnh, Vietnam. Kings memorial.

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Cao Lãnh, Vietnam. Kings tomb at memorial.

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Cao Lãnh, Vietnam. Buddhist temple.

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Wide view of the Hoover Dam downstream side looking from the Arizona end towards Nevada. The Pacific and Mountain time zones, as well as the Arizona-Nevada border, transect the dam.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

This is a view of the Mike O'Callaghan - Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge which was completed in 2010 so Route 93 can bypass the traffic over the Hoover Dam which is about 1/4 mile upstream from it (this picture was taken in October 2018 from the top of the dam). This impressive arch bridge rises 900 feet over the river below.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

This is a picture of the Hoover Dam taken (in mid October 2018) from the Mike O'Callaghan - Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge (Route 93) which rises 900 feet from the Colorado River below. The Hoover Dam itself is over 726 feet high and is also used to generate electricity with an output of over 2,000 megawatts. The dam began operating in 1936 (taking nearly 6 years to build). Lake Mead, created by the dam, spans up to 247 square miles, with a maximum depth of 590 feet.

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View looking over 700 feet down towards the base of Hoover Dam and hydroelectric stations capable of generating over 2 gigawatts of power (there really is a such term, and it's not from the "Back to the Future" movie).

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View looking upstream from the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead with one of the large penstock towers to the right. The water level of the lake is very low at the time, caused by years of drought, revealing a scaled lighter rock face below the "normal" lake level called a "bathtub ring".

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

View looking at the upstream side of the dam ... With people atop it showing the immense size of the structure. Note the low water level and penstock water intake tower to the left. The dam is 45 feet wide at the top, and tapers to a massive 660 feet at its base, with a length of 1,244 feet and height of over 726 feet.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

A view looking down off the upstream side of Hoover Dam at the surface of Lake Mead (and at least 200 feet below due to low lake water levels). The dam and massive penstock water intake towers (and catwalks between them) cast a shadow on the water surface.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

This is a view of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station from along Interstate 15 near Nipton, California (San Bernardino County). It at the base of Clark Mountain which is close to Primm, Nevada. The planned output is near 377 megawatts and has been completed / commissioned in 2014. Thousands of sun-tracking mirrors, called heliostats, focus the sunlight on each of 3 "receiver" units atop towers. The concentrated light cases the tower receivers to get extremely hot, heating water inside them to high-pressure steam, turning a turbo-generator and generating electricity. The glare from the white-hot tower receivers can be seen for many miles and appear as giant light bulbs.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

Here is a view of Lake Meade from just west of Hoover Dam and near Highway 93. There is a large marina to the left, and the lake spans to the east - However - The lake water is at a very low level as on-going drought is affecting California and Nevada for years. Normally the lighter colored terrain is under water had the lake been at normal levels.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

Under-exposed view of one of the receivers atop the tower during operation, glowing white hot. Excess steam is venting from the top (the actual steam turbines and generators are on the ground in a building next to the tower and not visible in this picture). Note the intense solar flux (concentrated sunlight Tyndall scattering in the air near the tower). The mirrors (heliostats) can be seen in the foreground and could be heard "clicking" every few seconds as they slowly move and keep the sun pointed at the receiver towers. There are three of these towers, with a total of 173,500 heliostat mirrors across the facility.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

Here is a view of the Mojave Desert flora and terrain near Nipton, California and at the base of Clark Mountain on a sunny October day in 2018 near the Ivanpah Solar facility. The area around the plant is environmentally sensitive, with desert tourtoises displaced by the land used and birds (called "streamers") that can be literally "cooked out of the sky" if they fly too close to the solar receiver towers when operating!

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

This is the administration offices, restaurant and old tower at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California. It is also near Edwards Air Force Base (25 miles to the east) and has been a focus for flight and even spacecraft development / research. Many records were broken here at this seemingly quiet place, including non-stop flights around the world (such as Voyager in 1986) and the "Ansari X-Prize" won by Spaceship One in October 2004. The facility also has some reputable space / flight development firms, such as BAE Aerospace, Virgin Galactic, and Scaled Composites.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

Here is the (unfortunately closed) hangar for the "StratoLaunch" plane, a carrier aircraft being built by Scaled Composites, and serving as a high-altitude launch platform for vehicles into space. The aircraft in this hangar is a massive twin fuselage plane with a wingspan of 385 feet (larger than a football field), 238 feet in length, with 3 large PW4000 series jet engines (from two 747s) on each side, and a service ceiling of over 50,000 feet.

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This is a view of the aircraft "boneyard" that is on the far side of the Mojave Air and Space Port. This is basically just a "junkyard" of retired aircraft (with many being the legendary 747) that will be parted out and eventually scrapped for metal. The engines - Being the most valuable part of any airliner - Are usually removed with the remainder of the plane, less valuable components (APU generators, avionics, refurbishables, etc), residing here in the "boneyard".

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This is the "Roton" or Rotary Rocket that is on permanent display along a street corner in the Mojave Air and Space Port. The ATV (atmospheric test vehicle) of this prototype proved to be unsuccessful, with a helicopter rotor being at the top of the vehicle. The intent of the project was to use a helicopter mode to reach high altitude, then retract the blades and transition to rocket powered flight. When returning and back in the atmosphere, the vehicle would switch back to helicopter mode and land. This concept was abandoned due to lack of funding.

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Cockpit (on the right side of the photo) of the Rotary Rocket that is on permanent display at the Mojave Air and Space Port. The restrictive view in this vehicle gave it the name "batcave" by test pilots.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

View of the Las Vegas strip (October 2018) and the New York New York Hotel and Casino. There is actually a roller coaster (called the "Big Apple Coaster") built within the architecture of the hotel.

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View of the Excalibur Hotel and Casino, across Tropicana Avenue, with reflections in the water near the New York New York Hotel

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Impressive "water show" of fountains, fog, and music in front of the Las Vegas Bellagio Hotel and Casino after dark in October 2018.

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View looking northeastward along the Las Vegas strip towards the Paris Las Vegas hotel with Planet Hollywood to the right.

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Picture of people playing cards and slots at one of many casinos in Las Vegas. Whether your gambling or eating, plan on spending a LOT of money here!

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Looking between LINQ and Harrahs at a portion of the High Roller Ferris wheel as tourists mingle and shop. This observation wheel is 550 feet high and is part of Caesars Palace.

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High rise building that are part of the MGM Grand Signature (near the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino) glowing with the moon and lights from the Las Vegas strip nearby.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

Pool area of the Luxor Hotel and Casino near the southern end of the Las Vegas strip. This hotel is a large pyramid with massive atrium inside. The hotel is 30 stories high, and a unique diagonal elevator system access the upper floors. The hotel (including its additional tower building) contains 4,407 rooms (2,526 in the pyramid structure alone) and 120,000 square feet of casino gaming space.

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View inside the Luxor Hotel and Casino, with the massive atrium inside. The entrances to the rooms and walk ways can be seen rising up on the inside of the atrium. The floor of the atrium is the second level and has shops, a food court, and large theaters (with shows like the Blue Man Group and Titanic being a mainstay).

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

This is the Stratosphere Tower, which is an observation tower that is part of the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. It is the tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States, with a height of 1,149 ft. The only tower in the western hemisphere that is higher is the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada. If simply being up high doesn't scare you, there are 3 thrill rides (one where you can actually jump off the tower) for those who dare!

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

This is a view from the lower (enclosed) observation area at the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino tower in Las Vegas. This is roughly 855' above the street. The view is looking east and northeast. Note the immense shadow cast by the tower.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

The iconic beam of the Luxor Hotel and Casino shining into the night sky in late October 2018. The beam comes from a 50 foot lamp-house at the top the pyramid with 39 7,000 watt Xenon lights totaling 273 kilowatts and producing a beam visible for 275 miles (pilots flying over Los Angeles during a clear night can see the beam). How about their electric bill? Well, if all 39 lights are lit (after 2008 they use half to save energy), it costs $51 an hour just to keep the lights on and the lamp room becomes hot enough to bake a cake (300 deg F)!

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

The world famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign that greets travelers coming in from the south on Las Vegas Boulevard. This is a famous landmark, drawing crowds of tourists in itself. This is typical "Atomic Age" (Googie) style architecture that was prominent in 1959, when Betty Willis designed it.

Posted: Oct 24, 2018, 6:26 PM

Here is a picture of a Joshua tree that is native only to the Mojave Desert in the southwestern United States.

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