Happy Steel Bubbles
Tag: Biking
Blue Sky and Odd Art
I’m sure you are tired of the blue sky by now, but I don’t know what that metal art means. I never stop while riding to have a look at the little sign. Sunshine and 91 degrees are forecast for today, can you handle this much sunshine?
Homeless Under A Blue Sky
Here are some photos from today’s bike ride. I was very surprised to see the travel bag and more along with the towel hanging from a rung when I stopped to cross a busy road. It tears at my heart, nobody deserves to live like this.
The children’s play area is at the main entrance to Tivoli Village, those pretty flowers were right along the trail! There is a 30% chance for rain today and I saw some rain sails hovering over the Spring Mountains across the valley.
My neighbor down the street from my home said that the community of Mount Charleston was getting some hail this morning! Not good. My recent change to posting just twice per day has gone well so far, but I do want to upload more than this each day, I have a lot of content!
More Of Those Beautiful Blue Skies!
You guys really love the beautiful blue skies over Las Vegas Valley, so here are more blue skies. I admit that the blues are a bit too deep but when I added more whites to the image, other parts of the photo would be washed out. I tried! Sunshine and 89 degrees for today, it could be another ride today!
Water Pics
I thought the title to be appropriate since there is water in each photo, but these photos really challenge the capabilities of the iPhone 12 or any other iPhone in my opinion. I think I had to over-sharpen them to get somewhat close to the sharpness I am looking for.
The result is the way these photos look, I really need to start taking the new Sony A7C on these rides with the 28-60mm lens. The camera has to be wrapped in a towel to protect it from the many bumps and occasional slams the bike takes on my rides.
Sunshine and 90 degrees are on deck for the valley today, I’m not riding today since I got a bit cooked yesterday. My farmer’s tan is looking fantastic though, haha!
A Bridge, A Tunnel and Other Things
On today’s bike ride I didn’t take many photos so here are all of them in one post. The water in the detention basin is what is left from several days ago when we had a serious downpour. The bike path runs along the basin for maybe one-quarter mile before I turn right and head for Tivoli Village.
The photo of a construction zone is actually the backside of Tivoli Village which was apparently left for a later date and time. My eBike has some seriously fat tires! Today’s ride was twelve miles, the standard distance on most rides since I generally ride the same trail each ride. How is/was your day?
Disc Brake
Bike trail looking south
Fat tire!
Water in the basin
Water in the basin
Pedestrian bridge, I’ve seen small city trucks cross this bridge!
Go ahead, it won’t break
The backside of Tivoli Village
In Town, Out Of Town
In town, the high will be 89 degrees, out of town could be warmer in the open desert, Happy Thursday folks. The photo of the fountain at Tivoli Village had a good makeover in the Prisma app on the iPad. I’m still trying to get used to a two-posts-per-day format here and honestly, I don’t like it.
Edited in Prisma app with Cartoon
Grayscale and Color Mixed
All of the grayscale photos were shot on the iPhone using the Lenka grayscale application, the other photos were shot using the new Sony A7C camera which was wrapped in a thick dish towel to protect that expensive body and 28-60mm lens.
Taking the bike ride today was very much a spur-of-the-moment decision since it wasn’t yet 90 degrees, it was a very nice ride.
The only bummer was that when I was crossing over the road on the pedestrian bridge, there was what looked like a middle-aged man passed out on the bridge as the very busy road below flowed with its usual heavy traffic and noise.
This is a great place to live but Las Vegas of course has its unfortunate citizens like any other larger city in this country. So sad… There are 15 photos in this set, more than my usual number.
A Super Fast Bike Ride
And a darn fast ride it was! It was fun too, I just never ride that fast, along the way I came upon an older gent on an electric trike. I had a hard time catching up with him and his cute cat in the bag on the front. We had a quick chat then I took off and was so surprised to see him pulling up behind me again, twice! It was so darn nice this morning that I couldn’t resist a ride, at some point, it will be much too hot.
Elemental
the Pedego Element electric bike.
Edited in Prisma app with Tulips
Edited in Prisma app with Cartoon
Edited in Prisma app with Leya
Two From Tivoli
Two iPhone photos from yesterday’s bike ride but the high will be 94 today so a ride isn’t likely.
A 91 Degree Ride
What the hell, let’s just go for it! I’m in need of a shower but collected some nice photos along the way with the iPhone. There are a few rain showers around the valley again but no rain at my place!
