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Darkness on the edge of town

 

Shot this with my phone through the window of a Southwest Airlines flight inbound from Los Angeles. My vague notion: Google Earth with an attitude! The trickery is probably obvious: I set my camera to negative mode to get the weird, silvered-blue color scheme and hellish sky, then ran it through Instagram to jack up the wierdness a little more.

Scott Dickensheets is a Las Vegas writer and editor whose trenchant observations about local culture have graced the pages of publications nationwide.
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