Last week, I went to Vegas to visit my dear friend and see New Kids on the Block. I figured it’d be cheesy and kind of goofy, which it totally was, but I also found myself singing along really loudly to my favorite songs. Seeing Joey McIntyre, whose poster was on my childhood bedroom wall, felt like a trip back in time. I was my old preteen self again, hanging with the same friend from all those years ago. Screaming. Singing. Dancing. Turning fifty next year, I suppose I needed to reaffirm that I am still the same person I’ve always been.

I’ll show you a few pictures from that night, but most of these shots are from my solo walk down the Vegas strip. The biggest surprise when I started editing was how much I deviated from my usual shots. I normally take a lot of close-up shots, paying attention to small details. It seems Vegas was too expansive for that, and most of these are street scenes. Or maybe I was just too enamored with the enormity of things. I’m happily surprised the bright light didn’t ruin them. What do you think?

Let me know if you have a favorite, and tomorrow I’ll be sharing the portrait shots I took of my friend in Red Rock Canyon.

So, let’s walk the strip together. Keeping these in order of what I saw. Let’s go!

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• The photos above were taken with my Olympus E-M1 MarkII, using a 14-150mm lens and edited with Lightroom Classic. The photos below were taken on my iPhone at the MGM.