Skylines From Far Far Away Thread
 

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Chicago From Michigan/Indiana Border


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Charlotte from Grandfather Mountain. Right around 80 miles/129 km away.
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chicago skyline shots from the other side of lake michigan are always fun.

you need really clear air and a pretty powerful telephoto lens to fully capture the effect.

and a bit of elevation gain from the numerous large sand dunes over there also helps.

i'm quite fond of this one:

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^ Heck, this is incredible... Nothing short of splendid. Love how both the lake and the sun do justice to it.

San Francisco (before the new buildings) from Marin County

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Amazing photo but quite old at this point. Everything from the past 15 years is missing. That view would be much more dramatic today and even more so in 5 years when all the south loop projects are completed. The skyline will essentially extend to the left edge of the photo.

^ i realize the pic is quite outdated, but it's the best "across the lake" skyline shot i've ever seen, so i had to post it.

Downtown Detroit from Metro Beach

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Winston-Salem:
This was taken near the Tennessee state line, about 85 miles / 137 kilometres west-northwest from downtown Winston-Salem. It is the longest distance photograph I have of the Winston-Salem's skyline.

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I don't have a photo but I can see Downtown Houston from the edge of Harris County on a freeway overpass.

Nice shot! Where is that? Hanging Rock? Pilot Mountain?

It's from much further out than that. It's from western Ashe County. The distance was so impressive, it was in a news story, several years ago. You can see layers of mountains increasing in height. From what I've seen, you need a very clear day, the sun likely has to be on the other side of the skyline (notice most of these are just shadows from the back of the skyscrapers with a rising or setting sun behind them), and you need an amazing lens.

Winston-Salem:
View from Fancy Gap, Virginia, taken by SSP/SSC forum member Flash. I found this on SSC, if I remember correctly? It's clear enough to identify the individual buildings. It's 46 miles / 75 kilometres.

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Has anyone tried to photograph Winston-Salem from West Virginia? The photograph above is about half-way to West Virginia. Something that surprises me: The Hawthorne Hill Skyline in Winston-Salem never shows-up in distance views? It should be to the right of downtown in the skyline view above. It must be hidden in a valley, behind the tall ridges in the city?

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Miami


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NYC - 40 Miles


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Niagara On The Lake


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Edmonton


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Not sure if this is far, far or just far. This is mine of Chicago from the western suburb of Oak Brook, about 15 miles.

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Chicago


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Chicago


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Niagara Falls


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MONTREAL

from Whiteface Mountain (NY State)
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from Mt. Mansfield (Vermont)
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from the hills in Fairfax (Vermont)
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source: https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/co...ultiple_shots/

Not only is the image amazing (skyline seen despite curvature of the earth) but you can clearly make out Sears, 311 S Wacker, Trump, JHC, AT&T, Aon, Prudential, etc from 60 miles away.

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tila tequila. yes, she is that stupid/crazy

Houston:

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That's a nice angle.

NYC from Parsippany NJ @ about 32 miles or so.


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A big one, but Atlanta at 74 miles away. Almost looks Martian like. Eerie.

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Downtown Detroit & a lil bit o' Windsor from malden park in Windsor.

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Milan


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Singapore


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Downtown LA from Mt. Wilson. Wilshire Grand is U/C not topped out yet. Need to get an updated one of these pics when we get clear skies.

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Here you go... skylines as viewed from Mars.

And Mars is typically 141 million miles away. Meanwhile, the diameter, and note the diameter of the universe (not including volume) is 5.5×10^23 miles.

Point being, we are nothing really. For some deep analysis, check out or type "drake equation".

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I guess you'll post pale blue dot next.

Boston:

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Houston


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Madrid


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Winter sunset over Miami from a departing cruise ship
 

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^ Photo taken in January 2014.
Missing are some skyscrapers over 500+ feet | 152+ meters tall that have been completed , topped off or still under construction since then including the new tallest Panorama tower, Echo Brickell, 1000 Museum among others.


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^^^^^

That's a excellent shot. I remember taking a cruise out of Fort Lauderdale 3 years ago, and for a good two hours or so, traveling down the peninsula, it was a silhouette of towers in the horizon. Usually I'll take them out of Bayonne (been on 17 cruises in my life), but F.Lauderdale offers some nice skyline gazing opportunities when headed to the Caribbean. S.Florida's coast is one giant skyline. Probably the longest in the nation in terms of sheer mileage.

Although taking it out of Bayonne, going underneath the Verrazano is epic.

Toronto from Lakeside Park, Port Dalhousie neighborhood, St. Catharines

Taken with a point-and-click with no tripod


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Wilmington from One Liberty Place observation deck, Philadelphia

Taken with a point-and-click.


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Nice shots on here!

I am thinking and thinking about this and I believe.... She might be slightly correct. If skyscrapers were about 62 miles high and reached suborbital space then from the ground a skyscraper might appear to be curved as it got closer and closer to the top.

something something earth isn't flat.

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Manhattan Skyline by caboose_rodeo, on Flickr

You know I love this stuff....

I'm working on a website that specifically tackles this topic (skylines from far away, and mountains also).
The site isn't finished, but is functional enough to be useful to this topic :).

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(filtered by confirmed skyline shots only)

Have a play with the filters etc, images missing is normal, working through these sorts of things now.

Phily and NY from afar. 1st one is from Eagle Rock Reservation. BTW, which is a great place to go during winter. On a clear day, it's stunning.

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From Neshaminy State Park.

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#Philly in the distance. The view from #neshaminy #park. #philadelphia #clouds by Buz Murdock Geotag, on Flickr

Nashville from 20+ miles.

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Toronto


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I started to say beautiful sunset, but that would be sunrise, right? Whichever, that's a gorgeous pic.

Looks like that's from somewhere around Clarkson?

Anyways, the 40+ mile shots are what I'd be really interested in. The shore of St Catharines and Niagara on the Lake are about 31 miles from Toronto, and it looks like you should definitely be able to see Toronto from quite a bit further if you can get to a high enough elevation because you see Toronto quite well from those locations. You see it even better from a greater distance atop the Niagara escarpment in St Catharines and Hamilton which is about 37 miles.

Niagara Falls would be 42 miles, I haven't been up the towers there but I'd imagine you should be able to see Toronto from there reasonably well still considering you can see Niagara Falls from Oakville (39 miles) despite the Niagara Falls buildings being much shorter than Toronto's. You can even see Niagara Falls from pretty much lake level in Oakville, so if you can get to the top of the towers in NF which are on top of the escarpment (so maybe 800 ft above the lake) the Earth's curvature won't get in the way nearly as much as looking at NF from Oakville's waterfront.

Looking from some of the high-rises in Buffalo or K-W would be really cool, that would be over 50 miles. At that distance the sub-skylines of the Golden Horseshoe would stack so that they would appear like a continuous skyline from Scarborough to Mississauga (you already have that effect from St Catharines).

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Toronto from Hamilton. Roughly 37 miles or 59 Kilometers as the crow flies.

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And taken from the Skylon Tower directly above Niagara Falls 41 miles or 66km as the crow flies.

4 years old now missing a ton of huge towers.
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The Chicago Skyline, Seen From Michigan (!), Thanks To An Incredible Mirage

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Interesting video.

The comments on the video are symptomatic of what one sees these days with so many YouTube videos. No wonder so many video posters turn off comments. There are just too many trolls out there.

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