Halifax from the Air

[someone123]

These are from a relatively new PBase gallery that you can find here (http://www.pbase.com/mucker/halifax).

http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361093/original.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361511/original.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361506/original.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361508/original.jpg

Common, complete with Rolling Stones damage:
http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361111/original.jpg

Northwest Arm:
http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361097/original.jpg

Bedford:
http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361108/original.jpg

Harbour:
http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361501/original.jpg

George's Island:
http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361131/original.jpg

[alps]

Nice pictures! I wonder how he got the photos, whether they're from his job or taken during some helicopter tour.

[Stanz]

Sweet. Love the harbour shot.

[DuffMan]

Great pictures! A lot of those were views I have never seen before. The peninsula shots were especially interesting, showing how relatively small it is.

[Keith P.]

Great pics that demonstrated a couple of things very clearly: Citadel High is in the middle of the Commons and should never have been built there -- the site should have been reintegrated into the Commons; and second, that the rail cut would make an ideal traffic solution for this city.

[Ex-Ithacan]

Awesome shots. I didn't realize Halifax has so many residential towers. Great find, thanks for sharing.

[Snashcan]

Halifax looks great, I really hope I can make my way out there soon.

[bluenoser]

Great photos, thanks for posting.

Interesting points, all. As for the peninsula looking small, I think some of the photos are from deceivingly high up and still capture a large angle and a lot of detail.

Also, I see your point about Citadel High, Keith. It really does take up a huge space on the commons and makes for a distinct separation from Citadel Hill. Perhaps they could've temporarily moved all the QEH students to St. Pats, then torn down QEH and built the new high school there? It seems like a pretty big lot.

[boden]

Halifax looks bigger from the air. I don't think I've seen aeriel shots before. :tup:

[arnold]

halifax looks great from the air... definitely one of canada's more interesting locals.

[Serge]

Super quality... Great find.

[Amanita]

Awesome, too bad that one with Halterm in it didn't get the whole thing.

[PhilippeMtl]

These pictures are awesome. Halifax is a real beauty.

[BigMeanBean]

Love this city, kepp 'em coming!

[juanadanac]

Great Shots!
Thanks for posting

[Rico Rommheim]

Great set, makes Halifax look much bigger!

[someone123]

A fairly big one from another perspective:
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2007/05/30/529828/BWAttachment529828-7.jpg
Source (http://www.prweb.com/releases/1969/12/prweb529828.htm)

[Jonovision]

WOW! thats awesome! new desktop!
A tad old though. Community college still under construction and no sign of spice.

[someone123]

I would guess that it is from 2005.

[worldlyhaligonian]

That picture also makes Halifax look extremely small.

[Keith P.]

That last pic is fabulous.

One thing it shows very well is how the Citadel really constrains the growth of downtown. Not that you could do anything about that, but it helps make the case for height being needed in development very clearly, and how foolhardy the limits both current and proposed truly are.

[phrenic]

Ocean Towers are still Brunswick Towers without the makeover in that pic as well.

[someone123]

That picture also makes Halifax look extremely small.

Aerial photographs tend to be distorted so that objects far away from the camera look smaller than they should relative to the ones in the foreground. The Ocean Towers for example are only about 50% as tall as Fenwick, but they look maybe 80% as tall in the image. Similarly, in reality the area from North to Cogswell is about the same size as Cogswell to Morris but it looks much larger.

[terrynorthend]

A watched The Nature Of Things last night, the subject was about vision and perception. An interesting note, the human brain has difficulty judging distance accurately in vertical dimensions. In fact similar objects appear up to 3 times smaller when they are the same distance below us as compared to horizontally distant. This is similar to the phenomenon of the Moon appearing much larger as it rises/sets than when it is overhead.