Well, I’ve just uploaded some video to the YouTube, and here’s a link to this video.
As I told you before, we didn’t have much time to play with anything but our instruments on the flight deck during the approach. On the ground though, we had more than an hour, and it was quite enough for me to go down on the apron, and make a few shots.
This video shows a Boeing-757 landing on the RW 19L (or, maybe, 19R, - for it is hard to say in the dark which of these two RWs it is landing on), less than 15 minutes prior this moment we were doing the same, and, maybe somebody’s else video existing somewhere else might show the proof of this 
On another, but very similar video, you can see the SouthWest 737-700 (which is the very ’similar’ equipment to ours: imagine this plane painted in WJ color scheme, that’s it..)
As it turned to be, I was waisting my time playing with the camera on the ground - our flight attendants went out to the terminal and tried their luck on the slot machines, - one of them managed to ‘pull $70 US out of them’.
On our way back we were flying the STAAV THREE RNAV DEPARTURE after the take-off from RW 25R. On this departure you have a chance to nicely observe the area while the plane is widely arching around it onto the eastbound course.
You shouldn’t expect an outstanding performance from the camera in the conditions given, - see, there’s quite a bit of motion blur in the pictures, but I found them looking fancy, ‘artistically retouched’ - actually, I didn’t do anything on them but resizing.
On the last picture you could easily recognize the McCarran airport by the dark area in the centre, which represents the airfield - the runway environment surrounded by the city’s neighborhoods. Compare the picture to this sketch:
And here is a quick aerial video-observation of the Strip, quite a bit shaky though, because we had a bumpy ride on the departure.
So, it is also going to be continued.. but not earlier than, probably, ‘after the next trip to the Strip’;)
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