Make a Photo Montage of your City/Town/Village

[RammerDino]

Yawn. I'm tired of seeing those old Canadian Wikipedia city montages. I sometimes wish they could change/be up-to-date, (Montreal should be able to have a montage) like the Eurasian cities. Here, you piece together photos of city landmarks,skylines, etc. and put them into the normal city montage you see in Wikipedia(which I'm just too much of a lazy bum to). Feel free to remind me if there's already a thread on this, unless it has over 1000 posts.

[SignalHillHiker]

Ours is awful.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/St._John%27s_Collage.jpg

[MonkeyRonin]

:previous: I think he's referring to the Wikipedia article montages. :)


Ours (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Montage_of_Toronto_7.jpg) isn't so bad right now, a little boring though. Hopefully this is better:

http://i.imgur.com/4de9S.jpg


Alternate version:

http://i.imgur.com/CaJqL.jpg

[SignalHillHiker]

Bahaha, oops. Fixing it now...

[MonkeyRonin]

Bahaha, oops. Fixing it now...


Ha, oh wow, that is pretty awful. You've certainly got enough good photos of your own to make a new one though.

[dleung]

I actually preferred signalhillhiker's original montage with the stuff melting into each other.

[SignalHillHiker]

If I sacrifice a few pictures to the Creative Commons Gods and create a new montage, can I add it to Wikipedia?

[le calmar]

I'm pretty sure you can as long as the pictures are yours. I'm not sure my collection of pictures of Montreal is good enough to do the same, that's too bad. (I would need to ask permissions, which can be tricky)

[roccerfeller]

I've always wanted to know that building on the very lower right of your montage. I remember driving by it, and I can't seem to take my eyes off.
Great montage, although I would keep the Saddledome up-to-date. But nonetheless definitely not bad.

That's the new calgary science center, right by Deerfoot across where the Zoo is

Its called the (telus) Spark centre. Its pretty neat in there, very slick and clean. They have some great stuff in there, didn't try the food though, and don't think I'd make a second trip out of it. I would have loved to go there as a kid.

They moved there from the old location, which was this dome-like building downtown.

[FiereSansVoiture]

Ottawa's is ok, just though I would put a little artistic flavor in it

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/962916version1.png (http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=962916version1.png)

-Downtown Ottawa
-Ottawa valley seen from Gatineau Park
-Samuel de Champlain Statue, Major Hill Park, with Place du Portage in the background
-Canal Rideau skating rink
-Random taxi cabs with Peace Tower in the background
-Changing the Guard, Parlement Hill
-Tulip Festival

Alternatively


http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/564594version2.png (http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=564594version2.png)

-Parlement Hill
-Centennial Flame
-Ottawa/Gatineau skyline
-Canal Rideau skating rink, with Château Laurier in the background
-Chinatown gate
-Old plants in downtown Gatineau with Place du Portage in the background, biggest governmental complex in the world after the Pentagon
-Meech Lake, Gatineau Park

[le calmar]

A city of 4 million and still no montage, Montreal definitely needs one. I am trying to work on something, but if someone can help me finding some pictures which are free of rights that would help, or pictures the author agreed to share. Anything I can find on wiki commons is free of rights I think? (by that I mean, I can use anything I find there?)

[MTLskyline]

A city of 4 million and still no montage, Montreal definitely needs one. I am trying to work on something, but if someone can help me finding some pictures which are free of rights that would help, or pictures the author agreed to share. Anything I can find on wiki commons is free of rights I think? (by that I mean, I can use anything I find there?)
I'm pretty sure you can, as long as you reference the original file.

Also anything on Flickr under Creative Commons (tick both boxes in advanced search).
*Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content*Find content to use commercially
*Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon

For the skyline, I tend to find day shots preferable (without using any shots already in the Montreal article).

I removed this one from the Montreal article infobox because I found the montage subpar (the images themselves are excellent, but not really good as a montage). I like the Tour de la Bourse but, I don't think it deserves to be that prominent either. Trudeau airport isn't even in city of Montreal.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/TE-Collage_Montr%C3%A9al.png

[le calmar]

^ I agree, daytime pictures are preferable, and we need something that is representative of the city. This montage was bad.

[le calmar]

I came across this pano I took 2 years ago. I thought it was nice with the river, the casino and Mont Royal in the back, the problem is the casino was still undergoing renovations. I would need your opinion, MTLskyline or anybody else. Should use it in the montage? Should I photoshop the cranes out of the pic (I'm pretty good with PS so you wouldn't even know)? Crop the pano so we just see downtown? Or just forget about it and find something else? Good daytime skyline shots (and free or rights) are not so easy to find.


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4099/4913491067_c0fa0507cb_b.jpg

[Chadillaccc]

I'd just crop it to only show DT so it is more prominent in the montage. The vantage point in that pic is fantastic. Shows a great view of most of the major towers plus some of the older skyscrapers too which I consider a huge plus. I'd go for it.

[armorand93]

SPFCHuEegsk

[MTLskyline]

I came across this pano I took 2 years ago. I thought it was nice with the river, the casino and Mont Royal in the back, the problem is the casino was still undergoing renovations. I would need your opinion, MTLskyline or anybody else. Should use it in the montage? Should I photoshop the cranes out of the pic (I'm pretty good with PS so you wouldn't even know)? Crop the pano so we just see downtown? Or just forget about it and find something else? Good daytime skyline shots (and free or rights) are not so easy to find.


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4099/4913491067_c0fa0507cb_b.jpg
Nice shot! I do like this angle, as it's different than the typical Mount Royal shot, none of the major skyscrapers are hidden and Mount Royal is visible. I think it could be interesting to keep the whole shot, but Photoshop out the cranes.

If you were to crop, you'd have to figure out where downtown ends. Maybe enough just to crop out the Casino?

Was this taken from the roughtop of Le Sans Soucy (http://lesanssoucy.ca/) in Saint-Lambert by any chance?

[RammerDino]

SPFCHuEegsk

We could probably play that while making our photo collabs. Thank you, and also for my 69th post.

[le calmar]

Nice shot! I do like this angle, as it's different than the typical Mount Royal shot, none of the major skyscrapers are hidden and Mount Royal is visible. I think it could be interesting to keep the whole shot, but Photoshop out the cranes.

If you were to crop, you'd have to figure out where downtown ends. Maybe enough just to crop out the Casino?

Was this taken from the roughtop of Le Sans Soucy (http://lesanssoucy.ca/) in Saint-Lambert by any chance?

The buildings there look all the same to me, but yes I think it was this one.

[Chadillaccc]

So I guess no one is going to make one of Montreal then?

[le calmar]

I'm still working on it, I am just very busy with school right now but I should be able to finish it soon. I will need your opinion before I put it on the wiki page.

[le calmar]

For the pictures, I was thinking of Habitat 67, art in the metro, architecture and stairs on Le Plateau, something about the food in the city (I'm having a hard time trying to find something nice and representative for this one, maybe just some guy at St.Viateur's baking some bagels?), the Big O, of course the skyline shot (the casino is still on it but I can crop it if necessary, the only thing is we would lose the eastern part of the skyline). What else? I managed to get good pictures and the authorization to use them, but I will need 2 or 3 more. Notre-Dame, the Oratoire? Something else?

[Rico Rommheim]

The Oratoire ought to be there, its canada's biggest church and its CDN, so its a representative that's not in downtown, like the big O.


The famous art deco building at University of Montreal? The installations at the port of Montreal? (we are after all a port city) The cross on Mont-Royal? Or the laurier monument on the base of the mountain? The roller coasters of La Ronde? The Molson brewery? There's so many!

[le calmar]

What about this first version? There is no room for more than 5 or 6 pictures, so I had to make some choices. Should I replace the bagels or the metro with the Oratoire? I am open to change any of the pictures in the montage so go ahead with your suggestions. The shot with habitat 67 is too big, I will try to change it. (2 smaller pictures would probably fit there, but all the pictures would be horizontal and most montages have at least one vertical picture)

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/8269/montageyg.jpg

[Chadillaccc]

Le ronde should probably be in their since it is inside the city. and maybe a better pic of old mtl? But I do like the skyline pic it actually works. I thought it might be too wide but it's not. I love habitat!

[le calmar]

I changed it a bit.

I can add La Ronde but it would take the place of another picture, otherwise some of them would be too small.


http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4131/montaget.jpg

[SignalHillHiker]

:previous:

I LOVE this new one. Gorgeous. And, at least from my perspective, every single shot is something unique I couldn't experience here and would associate entirely with Montreal.

[le calmar]

Maybe I should replace one of them with a shot of Old Montreal (probably St.Paul looking east with the Bonsecours market in the back).

[thomax]

Here is one I made for Hamilton.

http://i45.tinypic.com/9ptdeq.png

Hamilton doesn't have a montage on it's wikipedia page so I used the outline from the Toronto montage.


Photo Sources:
Skyline (http://www.kidsloveyoga.ca/)
Farmer's Market (http://www.architectmagazine.com/community-projects/hamilton-farmers-market-and-central-public-library.aspx)
Devil's Punchbowl (http://www.hgmac.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=202:devils-punchbowl-in-spring-20090426&catid=57:joshua-fellowship&Itemid=157)
Webster's Falls (http://www.tripadvisor.ca/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g154990-i28776434-Hamilton_Ontario.html)
Gore Park (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=403297979739434&set=a.124984620904106.20836.122710564464845&type=1&relevant_count=1#!/media/set/?set=a.401444713258094.90123.122710564464845&type=3)
Red Hill Bridge (http://www.mrc.ca/mrc_projects/east-hamilton-waterfront-trail-pedestrian-bridge/)

[SteelTown]

Nicely done!

[Chadillaccc]

Very nice! I know it sounds kinda like a bad idea, but maybe add in a pic of one of the larger or nicer looking steel mills? as that is a primary aspect of the city's heritage? Maybe Copps Coliseum or Ivor Wynn? The mountain?

Where is that water fall? It is stunning!

[thomax]

Very nice! I know it sounds kinda like a bad idea, but maybe add in a pic of one of the larger or nicer looking steel mills? as that is a primary aspect of the city's heritage? Maybe Copps Coliseum or Ivor Wynn? The mountain?

Where is that water fall? It is stunning!

I thought about putting in the steel mills, but I didn't want it focused on that because too many people think that is all Hamilton is about.

I put in the renovated Hamilton Farmer's Market instead of Copps Colliseum because they are both part of the same development, but the farmer's market has 175 years of history in Hamilton while Copps Colliseum only has 27.

The demolition of Ivor Wynn starts in a few weeks so that is why I didn't add that.

The mountain (a.k.a. the Niagara Escarpment) can be seen in the skyline shot of Hamilton stretching the entire width of the photo in the background. It is also seen in the photo with the cross at the Devil's Punchbowl.

That waterfall is called "Webster's Falls" and it is located in Dundas/Western Hamilton. It is just 1 of over 100 waterfalls in Hamilton which make the city known as "The City of Waterfalls" and "The Waterfall Capital of The World"

[Chadillaccc]

I've never heard of it referred to as either of those things. You knew what I meant when I said the mountain, as in the view of what it looks like when viewed from DT, as that is the view of it most people see when in the city. The farmers market is nice(quite nice) but obviously millions more people know about and could relate with seeing copps coliseum than a farmers market. And the steel industry is what fueled Hamilton's economy for a century, so I think it's pretty reasonable that a lot of people think it's what Hamilton is about, as it is a blue collar industrial city... no point in just shadowing the city's heritage and culture.

[jeddy1989]

:previous:

I LOVE this new one. Gorgeous. And, at least from my perspective, every single shot is something unique I couldn't experience here and would associate entirely with Montreal.

did you make ours yet? :P I'm anxious to see it!

[RammerDino]

Mine of Calgary. Photos are not mine as you can see a watermark on the Stephen Avenue photo.
http://i49.tinypic.com/k4bfyw.jpg

[le calmar]

^ Nice. Btw my montage of Montreal is now on wikipedia, I didn't post the last version here but I added one more picture of Old Montreal.

[Rico Rommheim]

I changed it a bit.

I can add La Ronde but it would take the place of another picture, otherwise some of them would be too small.


http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/4131/montaget.jpg

Very nice, and congrats for having it on wikipedia!

[Chadillaccc]

Yeah very nice! Love that one, especially with the Oratoire!!!

[le calmar]

Well this one was on wikipedia but no longer is since there was a problem with the copyright with one of the pictures. I am trying to fix this.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Montage_Montreal.jpg/400px-Montage_Montreal.jpg

[lio45]

I was going to say that I thought one major negative point for your montage was the complete absence of Old Montreal in it, but you fixed that.

Those row houses are really ugly though... and not representative of Montreal IMHO... (What's with that pale blue paint?? And... including the roof?!?)

I'd dump Habitat 67 as well...

And as for the subway... not that sure either... I just looked up a quick sample of other big cities' montages, and found none so far that wasted space showing off their subway it in.

I'm really sorry for having to criticize -- really, really sorry. Congratulations for the nice work... I just can't help it, I have to be honest.

FWIW, Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris) has no montage, just that one nice pic... why can't we do the same for Montreal? The single Montreal skyline pic currently there is great, IMO. In Paris' case, if you want to see various city landmark pics, you scroll down and there's plenty -- all the potential montage material for Paris is right there, you just have to scroll down a bit. I personally think it's nicer/cleaner that way.

[SignalHillHiker]

did you make ours yet? :P I'm anxious to see it!

I tried but... I wasn't impressed with it, so I never posted it. This is what I came up with:

http://i49.tinypic.com/hug3dw.jpg

[Rico Rommheim]

I was going to say that I thought one major negative point for your montage was the complete absence of Old Montreal in it, but you fixed that.

Those row houses are really ugly though... and not representative of Montreal IMHO... (What's with that pale blue paint?? And... including the roof?!?)

I'd dump Habitat 67 as well...

And as for the subway... not that sure either... I just looked up a quick sample of other big cities' montages, and found none so far that wasted space showing off their subway it in.

I'm really sorry for having to criticize -- really, really sorry. Congratulations for the nice work... I just can't help it, I have to be honest.

FWIW, Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris) has no montage, just that one nice pic... why can't we do the same for Montreal? The single Montreal skyline pic currently there is great, IMO. In Paris' case, if you want to see various city landmark pics, you scroll down and there's plenty -- all the potential montage material for Paris is right there, you just have to scroll down a bit. I personally think it's nicer/cleaner that way.

I do agree that these rowhouses are ugly (those are the ones on the trashy part of St-Hubert)and more suitable ones could be found. I elect to keep Habitat, Montreal doesn't have many avant-garde buildings by famous architects.

[le calmar]

I was going to say that I thought one major negative point for your montage was the complete absence of Old Montreal in it, but you fixed that.

Those row houses are really ugly though... and not representative of Montreal IMHO... (What's with that pale blue paint?? And... including the roof?!?)

I'd dump Habitat 67 as well...

And as for the subway... not that sure either... I just looked up a quick sample of other big cities' montages, and found none so far that wasted space showing off their subway it in.

I'm really sorry for having to criticize -- really, really sorry. Congratulations for the nice work... I just can't help it, I have to be honest.

FWIW, Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris) has no montage, just that one nice pic... why can't we do the same for Montreal? The single Montreal skyline pic currently there is great, IMO. In Paris' case, if you want to see various city landmark pics, you scroll down and there's plenty -- all the potential montage material for Paris is right there, you just have to scroll down a bit. I personally think it's nicer/cleaner that way.

Paris is one of the few cities with no montage, maybe because Paris is Paris. Montreal is no Paris and I think it needs one. IMO a skyline shot doesn't tell anything about the city.

Since there is a copyright issue with the metro picture, it needs to be removed, but the idea was to show the art in the metro and not just the metro itself (btw the montage of Chicago does show its subway). I tried to find a good picture showing the typical row houses in the city but couldn't find anything better! If you have good picture with no rights on it I will change it. And I think that Habitat 67 deserves to be there since it is very well-known (I admit I'm not a big fan, but anyways)

Thanks for the suggestions, they are more than welcome.

[Chadillaccc]

I tried but... I wasn't impressed with it, so I never posted it. This is what I came up with:

http://i49.tinypic.com/hug3dw.jpg

No skyline pic? or highlights of any of the city's attractions or institutions?

[SignalHillHiker]

:haha: I got that exact feedback privately. Working on it now!

And yes, completely agree. Facepalm moment.

[Chadillaccc]

lmao! You just like the pretty houses.

[SignalHillHiker]

I loves me some Jellybean Rows.

[SignalHillHiker]

How's about this...

It shows the Basilica, the Battery, Cabot Tower on Signal Hill, Fort Amherst, and Cape Spear. Those are the main attractions for tourists who haven't been here before.

http://i46.tinypic.com/mv68ac.jpg

[Townie709]

Looks great! Just retake that first skyline shot in about three years and it will look phenomenal! ;)

[jeddy1989]

:previous:
Much better :D

[Tony]

Hey guys, if you're going to make montages with photos that are not your own, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU PROVIDE PROPER CREDIT FOR THOSE PHOTOS THAT ARE IN YOUR MONTAGE. You have a week to correct your posts before I start deleting.

Thanks.

[SignalHillHiker]

No problem.

For mine, I only used my own photos.

[Chadillaccc]

Feel free to delete mine. It says very clearly in my post that the photos aren't mine and that I don't know who to credit them to. Just looks nice.

[Chadillaccc]

Hmmm, someone seems to really like editing the Regina Wikipedia page. I'm sure if they spend that much time on Wiki they are prolly a member on here, so if you read this, make a Regina montage! It's wayyy too pretty of a city to not have one!

Same goes for Kelowna, London, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Nanaimo, Red Deer, and Lethbridge.

Thunder Bay could even use one, considering Sudbury has one for some reason! IMO Thunder Bay is a much more scenic and cultural city than Suds. No offence meant, just what I have seen.