I thought tonight we’d go back to Las Vegas. On my last day there we had some time before our flight left, so decided to check out some of the other hotels. (It was pretty hot outside so the idea of spending time in an airconditioned building sounded great). As Caesars Palace is so grand, we thought we’d go there.
Most of the hotels aren’t too keen having photographers walking around the casino taking pictures, but they don’t mind you shooting images in the shopping areas. Which is cool because Caesars has the most amazing shopping mall – I guess that’s what you call it but it’s like no other mall I’ve ever seen. Firstly everything is inside but to make it look like you’re walking the streets of Italy they paint the ceilings blue with fluffy clouds. Then every now and then you reach a super elaborate section with big pillars and statues and usually a beautifully decorative ceiling with amazing sky-lights giving you lots of natural light.
Of course you can’t have a mall without a huge fountain! They have several, some with water features that shoot water across the room. Again very very impressive. At the end of the shopping area (I can’t bring myself to call it a mall again), is this three floor collection of shops which again is very decorative (following the theme of Caesars Palace of course). They have these beautifully curved escalators the take you to each floor and some of the most expensive shots your’ve ever seen. Think of a designer label and it’s here.
As the shopping area at the end was so impressive I had to take a picture. So I set up the tripod so it overlooked the majority of the shops and captured the image below. The light in the area wasn’t that bright (there was some natural light coming down from skylights above) but I had to have a long exposure to get the shot. This of course meant that any movement looked blurred but I quite like this in the image (especially the people on the escalators).
Looking at the image I think it would make a pretty cool puzzle, there’s so much detail so finding matching pieces would be fun. The colors are all bright and the statues are great (never photographed so many boobs in my life).
The guys got some “personal” flashlights tonight, all color co-ordinated to their uniforms. I think they looked pretty cool!
