Posts in Category USA Retrospective
Dallas 2007 
My most recent trip to the USA is to Dallas in 2007 to attend conference. For some reason I bought my camera with me, primarily because I remember all the episodes of Dallas my mum watched in the 1970s.
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Chicago from the Air These images were taken from window seat of an aircraft descending into Chicago using one of the earliest digital cameras, the Kodak DC220 with a 1.2 megapixel resolution.
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Mulholland Drive on a Mustang We rented a Mustang and took it to Mulholland Drive in Hollywood Hills, ending overlooking Hollywood Bowl.
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Empire State Building (New York The ending of the film Sleepless in Seattle was set in the observation deck of the Empire State Building. From here, it's possible to get 360° views of Manhattan Island.
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New York, NY I've always loved New York, from perusing coffee table photographic books about the city (I think those books made me want to be a photographer) as a child.
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Niagara Falls A famous tourist attraction and spectacular sight, Niagara Falls are actually a group of falls straddling the border between the USA and Canada.
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National Mall As tourists, we visited the National Mall at Washington, DC, in 1997. Recent events have of course heightened security here, so these photographs are a homage to a more innocent decade.
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Winchester House For years, I have mentioned the Winchester House in my talks and presentations, as an analogy of what happens when an organisation does not have a cohesive strategy, so of course I have visited the actual house many times.
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Dayton, OH I visited Dayton for a quick business trip in 1994.
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Twin Peaks (San Francisco) Twin Peaks offers the best views of San Francisco, probably the most beautiful city in the USA.
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San Francisco, CA San Francisco is probably my favourite city in the USA. I don't know why, but I feel really at home here, and for some reason most people there think I'm a local so obviously there's a connection.
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Pacific Coast Highway We drove the famous Pacific Coast Highway, or State Route 1, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, in 1997 as part of our USA vacation.
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Disneyland 1997 This is a nostalgic look at the original Disneyland in Anaheim, built by Walt Disney himself, in the late 1990s before it was expanded and an additional theme park (Disney California Adventure Park) was built on the original carpark.
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Sherman Oaks Galleria We visited this iconic shopping mall, one of the birthplaces of "Valley" culture and used in several films, several months before it was severely damaged by the Northridge earthquake and it's eventual decline.
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Long Beach and Queen Mary On my first visit to the Los Angeles in 1993 (business trip), we used to drive along the coast on the weekends. One weekend we stopped by at Long Beach to visit Queen Mary.
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Visiting a Data Centre in the 1990s They sure don't build "Big Iron" computers like they used to. This is a data centre located in Los Angeles in the 1990s.
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Universal Studios Hollywood Universal Studios Hollywood is a unique theme park in the 1990s in that it was based on a real film studio backlot, and the Backlot Studio Tour actually started in 1915.
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Star Trek Adventure Beam aboard the bridge of the Starship ENTERPRISE. Your mission? To explore the limits of your imagination with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock. To battle Klingons, space creatures and alien superbeings! To boldly go where no man has gone before.
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