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Sactown Photos
Sacramento photos of the skyline, downtown, urban life, midtown, highrises.
New Photo Threads by myself Sacramento – Rolling Down The Boulevard: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=133128 http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9...2007051kq2.jpg Your Town, My Town, Our Town, Sactown… Sacramento Calif.: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=132027 http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7...nal2007yu3.jpg |
Good stuff man! Keep it up.
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Thanks Sacto :tup: I hope to see some more of your city shots in the future too.
I guess I should have mentioned this in the first post that this thread is open for anybody to post city photos or photos of the region on. Sometimes making a thread to post just a few photos can be a pain. So please share your perspective of this great city. |
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Nice shot Mike. I like the progress in West Sac. :tup:
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Hey Mike, do you know of any downtown parking garages with an open top level and cool background of the skyline for doing a nighttime car photoshoot? Thanks!
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You may be able to get a shot on the top level of the garage on 14th and H
Street. It'll be a little tricky as the walls are a bit tall... but the view are great. |
Yup, that's the one I was thinking of too. There is a high point above the
walls on top that if you position the car just right, you could get a sweet view. I would also try the garage across the street from the EPA building on I Street and also the garage next to the current US Bank building and library. I think the high walls around the side on the top would be a problem with a car and it's low profile. I would also go in on foot first to see if any of these locations work for you before paying parking fees. If I think of any others I'll let you know. There are some other nice locations downtown but they are State owned garages and only State employees can park there :( |
Thanks Zach and Mike for the recommendations. :tup:
I'll probably and check out the 14th & H garage like you guys recommended. I'm PM'ing with Mike for more info. Thanks again! |
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Fishing on the Sacramento River http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...n/DSC01326.jpg Christmas Day 03 Kings Game http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aRyan/Sac2.jpg Gotta love summer baseball http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aRyan/Sac1.jpg I took these two last spring http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...dandsac009.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...an/sacdown.jpg And this one 2 weeks ago http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...PRParty009.jpg |
Thanks Ryan. I like the one of fishing on the river with several lines caught in the branch.
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@innov8
what kind of camera are you using? |
Nikon D70. I should have some new city threads to post soon... Boston, NYC, and Sacramento :tup:
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Mike - Late notice, but our car shoot is on for tomorrow night if you're interested at all. Check your PM.
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US Bank Pumpkin
Here is my rendition of one of Innov8's great pictures on my pumpkin.
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2710/dscn1336cp1.jpg http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4367/calepsnp0.jpg Pumpkin picture taken by myself US Bank Plaza picture taken by Innov8 Its not great but I wanted to do somthing different from the norm. Happy Halloween everyone! :jester: |
Well done Jeff :worship: it brought a smile to my face :D
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Yeah that's pretty awesome. Nice work... both of you!
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That has to be the coolest pumpkin ever. :tup:
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Jeff Z love your pumpkin:)
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Absolutely love the night shot, great work Innov8!
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:previous: Yeah, that angle will look even more sweet once 621's crown is lit.
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Here's a couple of new city photo threads by myself. I know a few of you have
ventured over to the My City Photo's section to view, but for those who haven't... please take a peak. S-A-C-R-A-M-E-N-T-O, the summer of 2007 http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=141555 http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/8...071002fnc1.jpg Sacramento can be sexy - Rising from the Shadows http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=141558 http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6...071018fkp0.jpg |
Hey innov8 do you make any money off your photos? I'm sure you don't need me to tell you this but you are extremely talented and hope youre making money off your talent.
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Thank you Majin… I appreciate everyone’s supportive comments :bowtie:
My shots show up from time to time in a few local publications and there are also a few organizations and business that have also bought some of my photos. I’m working on taking it to the next level, thanks again. |
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ever thought of making sacramento postcards? I went to Old Sac the other day with relatives visting from Mexico City and the cards were outdated and outright terrible just showing the capitol. BTW excellent pics. |
Standing ovation to you Innov8! Most fantastic threads to date. If your selling I'm buying!
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Thank you guys. I think it would be great if we could fill this thread with
other peoples view and perspectives of our city... feel free to load them up :tup: http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/344...071201foj3.jpg |
I found some cool shots on Flicker.
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7...fc94598nv5.jpg Flicker by WFC94598 http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8...rsp8254rc2.jpg Flicker by SP8254 http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/2...ickermnvs0.jpg Flicker by Mnemonix http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/9...ickerp6am3.jpg Flicker by P645N http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/2...matimusnn8.jpg Flicker by Matimus http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/2...ickdem5lr7.jpg Flicker by nickdem56 http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5...ercoxeero0.jpg Flicker by Coxee |
Taken at Downtown Plaza last week:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ontroopers.jpg "These aren't the elves you're looking for." |
I graduated from Sacramento Country Day in 03 and took photos for the school newspaper all 4 years. Every year we had to do a story on the progress of the new campus in Folsom. Basically, in 2001 GenCorp Inc. gave us 80 acres, which sits in the 30,000 acres-plus of oak grasslands that run south of Highway 50 from Folsom to Rancho Murieta.
In any case, this is a picture I took back in 2001, and, well, it hasn't changed much since then. I have much better photos, but I'm bored at home, and this was the only one of Sacramento I could find. I'll keep digging. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...aRyan/land.jpg |
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They're already armed, so what's the problem? |
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Maybe with a nice motto over the door...like "Work Will Set You Free," for example?
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Funny, but ouch! Arbeit Mach Frei is much better sounding..... (Same thing, only in the original language.) Or maybe we could put that saying on the Statue of Liberty, "Give us your tired..." Ouch |
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neuhickman, if what you are advocating is providing housing for the homeless (not locked institutions, but housing) then I take back my remark. The solution to homelessness IS housing, but that's a solution that the free market can't provide.
Many of the chronic homeless are mentally ill, but "chronic homeless" only applies to about 10% of the homeless population: people who have been homeless a year or more, or who become homeless several times in a period of a couple of years. "Housing first" programs target the chronic homeless by getting them into housing before addressing other problems--because, once the person is housed, those problems become MUCH easier to treat. Any problem a person might have becomes much worse on the street. As I have mentioned here before, in other cities (like Denver) they have found that providing "housing first" programs and case-management followup actually costs a great deal less than the emergency services (jail, emergency rooms, psych wards, detox) that they would have used if still on the street. Add to the fiscal benefit the community benefit of fewer homeless on the street and the social benefit of helping some of society's most miserable become, at least, more stable (and sometimes, back into productive members of society) and you've got a real option--a solution that works. It's not particularly cheap, and it's not particularly easy, but homelessness isn't a simple problem and it doesn't come with a simple answer. Enough moralizing! More Sacramento photos! http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...22-06_1512.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...22-06_1548.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...22-06_1539.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...22-06_1505.jpg Some photos I took last year on a tour of Globe Mills with my cheap phone camera. Hopefully I'll get to take some "after" shots soon. |
I was helping a friend from work paint some houses a week or 2 ago and noticed that there are some awesome views of the skyline, and the entire valley from the cameron park el dorado hills area. I would of taken a picture but all I had was my camera phone. Somebody with a really bad ass camera could take a shot and it would be amazing. Just go to one of the side roads off 50 and take some, and some of the deeper roads into the hills in the area.
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http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/266...dtbirdsqx5.jpg
Flicker: by Trimmos. This person takes photos of birds but in this shot the skyline got in the way ;) http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/970...dphoto2qc0.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/4...ldphotoum6.jpg http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/5...kertspavn9.jpg http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1...rfnz007ee2.jpg Flicker: by Fnz007 |
I just love this old "business district" postcard shot:
It shows a lot of the old West End, and a lot of the old city fabric wiped away by redevelopment and changes in transportation. Sacramento's waterfront was heavily industrial, with everything from grain mills to canneries to lumber mills to ironwork, and three different railroads running alongside the river. If you note the building on M Street just past the Tower Bridge (which identifies this shot as post-1935) to the right, you'll notice it has a "slice" taken out of it. This is because the Sacramento Northern tracks off the bridge used to swing to the right between Front and Second Street into the SN's original freight station. This station was destroyed in a fire, and the brick freight station (visible in the photo just above that building with the slice) received cars via a sharp S-curve of track at Second and N Street (you can see the boxcars in front of the station.) The building was abandoned in favor of the Western Pacific freight station on Second and R Street after SN switched from electrics to diesel in the early 1950s. The other artifact of the SN era in this photo is the old passenger station on Terminal Way. Find City Hall on the far left of the photo (should be easy to see if you can find the Cal-Western building, aka The Citizen Hotel) and it's the brick-red structure just up and to the right. The big boat in the foreground is either the Delta King or the Delta Queen. They alternated between Sacramento and San Francisco, passing each other in the middle of the night somewhere on the Delta, from their construction in 1926 until they were taken out of service in 1940, so obviously this shot has to be from somewhere between 1935-1940. |
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I agree! :previous:
And WOW! That first shot with the birds is incredible! |
The shot with the mountains and birds is awesome. Makes me want to go skiing this weekend. Great shot innov8! I like the cluster of high-rises.
The postcard is awesome too. Wburg, good to see that you are living/working your passion. I wish I could have experienced downtown prior to the I-5 freeway. M Street and all of downtown looks like a real urban oasis. :yes: |
neuhhickman, is the photo inov8 provided the photo from the ranch you said? Is the ranch private or is it a park? I need a better camera so I can get some good pictures of the far away skyline (which I absolutely love).
And my ultimate goal is to get a skyline shot from Dixon. And yes, you can see if from there. |
Does anyone out there have photos of Old Sacramento before the area was restored to what it is today?
I remember seeing photos of the area and it looked like a ghost town completely run down. Just curious.:) |
petescafe: Most of the photos of the West End you see are from the redevelopment era, when most of the businesses had been forcibly closed. Of course, if you forcibly run people out of a neighborhood and don't allow anyone to move in, it's going to look like an utterly run-down ghost town, but before that social engineering was done, the West End was the most densely populated part of the city.
If you are interested in seeing some of the photos, go to the SAMCC online database: http://www.sacramenities.com/history...g/catalog.html Use the search term "West End" and you'll see some urban street scenes that look straight out of a Dashiell Hammett novel. Very "film noir." |
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I think the West End would make a good subject for a coffee table book. I grew up without any knowledge of what the West End looked like. It's always been known as Old Sacramento to me. You really get the sense of what the 5 freeway has done to that side of the city. Thanks again.:tup: |
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