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Originally Posted by twister244
You get this with Denver too. Even though the mountains do look closer than they do in LA, they don't look that close. The only city I've been to where the mountains actually look impressive and close is Colorado Springs. It's all about prominence, not necessarily height.
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Honolulu, Salt Lake City, and Seattle would quality too with easily visible mountains. And Pittsburgh on the East Coast. I don't recall the mountains in Portland, San Diego, or San Francisco, so those are probably visual illusions as well.
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Originally Posted by Quixote
Okay, here's a more "realistic" photo of a similar view (farther away, but same angle). The point was to capture the skyline from a vantage point that featured the San Gabriels and the Pacific.
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^^ Beautiful shots.