Mohave Edge editorial photography
Explore the places, history, geology, wildlife, architecture, travel, and everyday life behind published Mohave Edge photographs from Las Vegas, the Mojave Desert, and beyond.
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Photograph: One Queensridge Place
One Queensridge Place looks almost detached from its surroundings in a long telephoto photograph. The twin towers stand front and center while the Strip recedes into the distance, partly shadowed by cloud. It captures t…
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Photograph: Nevada Desert Las Vegas
Las Vegas is often described as a city placed in an empty desert, but the landscape in this photograph is neither empty nor uniform. The panels and tower provide a strange modern marker; behind it, the Spring Mountains …
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Photograph: Blue Diamond Hill Companions
Las Vegas is usually introduced through its casinos, arenas and illuminated skyline, yet one of the region’s greatest advantages begins where the pavement thins out. Within an hour of the Strip, hikers can move from red…
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Photograph: Luxor Hotel
The Luxor Hotel is the kind of building that makes a reasonable person ask how it was ever approved. A black-glass pyramid, an enormous sphinx and a beam aimed into the night sky sound more like a rejected movie set tha…
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Photograph: Las Vegas Sunset
A Las Vegas sunset can make the city feel secondary to its surroundings. In this photograph, Mandalay Bay and a jet at Harry Reid International Airport provide scale, but the real subject is the sky: intense color sprea…
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Photograph: Mandalay Bay
Mandalay Bay is one of the first major resorts many airline passengers see when arriving in Las Vegas. Harry Reid International Airport sits immediately east of the southern Strip, so parked and taxiing jets often align…
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Photograph: Fontainebleau in Las Vegas
At dawn, Fontainebleau Las Vegas does not blend into the skyline. Its tall blue tower catches the first cool light while neighboring resorts remain partly in shadow, and the Spring Mountains turn the entire north Strip …
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Photograph: Southwest Planes
In a telephoto view of Harry Reid International Airport, a cluster of Southwest jets can look less like ordinary traffic and more like a fleet assembling. That impression is not misleading. Las Vegas is one of the airli…
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Photograph: Flying to Vegas
Las Vegas is one of the easiest major American destinations to reach by air and one of the easiest to underestimate. A flight from Southern California, the Bay Area or Phoenix often lasts roughly one to two hours, yet t…
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Photograph: Harry Reid Airport
For millions of visitors each year, the journey to Las Vegas truly begins the moment their plane touches down at Harry Reid International Airport. Located just minutes from the world-famous Las Vegas Strip, this bustlin…
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Photograph: Newport Beach Pier
The Southern California coastline is dotted with spectacular views, but few spots capture the quintessential essence of beach life quite like the Newport Beach Pier. Extending out into the sparkling waters of the Pacifi…
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Photograph: Vegas Skyline
When individual towers are visible before signs, traffic and artificial illumination take over the scene. This photograph however captures the resort corridor in golden-blue morning light from an unusual southeastern an…