This is a scanned photo from the Canon AE-1 film camera. I have always liked this picture and I was so lucky to get it. I had taken off from Las Vegas and was headed to Kansas City. I had picked a window seat on the left side of the plane and had out my map, binoculars, and camera. The problem was that it was cloudy and I could not see any land. I waited for a long time, my face never leaving the window. Finally, at the critical moment, the clouds opened up just as the plane traveled over Hoover Dam, and I got my shot! Seconds later the cloud gap closed up and the land was hidden again. You can see the cloud shadows all over this landscape, but the dam is in sunlight.