Great Start to 2008!

Woke up and didn't have a clue what I was going to do today, the 1st of 2008. My roommate suggested doing come rock climbing in Red Rock Canyon, which is only 20 minutes away (I just found out). This isn't your straight up vertical rock climbing, more gradual grades, but still can be challenging at times. It was great fun. I plan on doing more hiking in the area in the near future. Here's some pics of the day. My roommate Chris is pictured in the first one.

Recent Weather

I have been enjoying a lot of sunrises out here lately (mainly because I can't sleep so I am up that early often). I haven't found a good spot to take pictures of the horizon. I don't know if anyone can relate, but finding good angles in a city is tough! There's almost always something in your way, especially if its mostly flat like it is out here. I was out doing some errands yesterday and saw some really cool cloud formations. I took a few shots, let me know what ya think!

First Vegas Sunset

I took this pic on the way when I moved here from Wichita. I've always been enthralled by sunsets, when I was younger I used to keep a camera in my glove compartment and whenever I saw a cool sunset I would drive to the highest point I could find and take a picture. Sometimes its a race against time because they are over so quickly, so like everything else, its all about the timing. Enjoy!

I thought it would be funny to also include a picture of my misfortune on my epoch road trip (not long by some... but when you know your car is barely hanging on, driving 1800 miles seems like an eternity!). I blew a tire right outside of Vegas, about an hour out.. and had to get towed in... not the way I wanted my first day to go... but hey, I made it, right?

The View Out My Window

It was a full moon out when I got home in the evening, and it may not seem like it... but it took an hour to put together this photo. I had to take off the screen of my bedroom window, take two pictures with the mountains and moon in the frame (you can see the line down the middle if you look closely). And then spent an hour in photoshop merging the two pics as well as matching the color variations and even drawing in some of the mountains I cropped out... what you don't see is the house rooftops just below this picture which I sneakily removed. Once you get the hang of photoshop, you really can do some amazing things with it. Let me know what ya think!