The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II - Page 354

Martin Mtl · #**7061** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:25 PM**

Wow, that's a really eerie/nice pic.

caltrane74 · #**7062** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:28 PM**

Snow already? Yikes...

Give me at least one more month, please.

YOWflier · #**7063** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:32 PM**

Try as I might, it's pretty hard to take serious someone who states:

- The special part of Westboro is a "bagel shop",
- Old Ottawa South is "all residential",
- Little Italy is "a few blocks long".

But hey, why let the truth get in the way of a good debate?

Credibility. Gone.

Chadillaccc · #**7064** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:37 PM**

Can we let it go now? We all know Ottawa is a nice city, and anyone who knows anything about Calgary knows it's a nice city too.

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Snow already? Yikes...

Give me at least one more month, please.

Calgary almost always has snow by October. It's the mountains!

I love the snow, already built my first snow man of the year; see the weather thread for pics

It's creepy.

Last year we had snow before October 15th which sucked, and it stayed until April of this year. This year, we got snow around the 25th but then it went back up to 10 - 15 degrees for most of last week so it all melted. Then it snowed again this weekend and this one looks to be staying till April. Getting our first lasting snow of the year on November 2nd is pretty good if you ask me, perfect time for winter to arrive just after the kids have had a good warm Halloween. Excited to learn to ski this year! Wooot!

Wigs · #**7065** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Snow already? Yikes...

Give me at least one more month, please.

well we are at 1000-1200m elevation in the shadow of the Rockies

Allan83 · #**7066** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Razor

Well define regional centre then? To me it's that centre in which those people from those surrounding communities (Ottawa has tons btw) come into to get their wares and services. i only acknowledged that I go to Montreal for an outing, and not out of necessity..Huge difference..Again it's because we can..I doubt that if a Montreal type city was less than two hours from Calgary, Calgarians wouldn't do the same..If for just for an outing a couple of times a year.

Cleary you're not understanding my point. It is completely irrelevant why you go to Montreal, or whether you have to or not. The fact that you and so many others do go means that those dollars are spent in Montreal and Toronto. The restaurant owners in Ottawa don't care if you have to go to Montrel. If you are going to Montreal then they're not getting your money. Even if you only go twice per year, and many people go much more than that, if half of Ottawa did this the cumulative impact would be very large, a million trips per year. And they do, and it is, and it shows. Again, this isn't a knock. It's just the way it is. Maybe you should ask yourself why you're have trouble accepting the idea that Ottawa acts like a smaller city than Calgary.

Darkoshvilli · #**7067** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:42 PM**

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caribb/9176267429/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mzn37/9204439718/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thecogentcommunicator/9057527641/sizes/l/

Martin Mtl · #**7068** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

... and certainly some areas of the city of Montreal too, and Toronto, and Ottawa, and Vancouver. Basically every city on this continent built crap like that during the 70s. Equating it with Longueuil is a copout. Or did you mean that it reminds you of the "urban" areas of Longueuil?

It does look a lot like the most ugly and semi-urban part of Longueuil. Or any other depressing semi-urban, older suburb of Montreal.

kw5150 · #**7069** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:43 PM**

Calgary beltline. It's ugly, it's gritty, and it's ours.

kw5150 · #**7070** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 9:52 PM**

The glass wall with ugly parking lots on the right side

kw5150 · #**7071** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 10:09 PM**

lacking in density.

Where are all the trees?? Its like a desert!!

There is nothing urban about Calgary!!

Martin Mtl · #**7072** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 10:18 PM**

Nothing like a good telephoto to make any city looks very dense :-)

kw5150 · #**7073** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 10:35 PM**

You chewed on a lot of toys that had lead paint I think. A good use of telephoto allows you to take pics just like you would see them with your eye. Normal cameras (like cell phone cameras) take all of the magic out of images and spread things out.

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Nothing like a good telephoto to make any city looks very dense :-)

Martin Mtl · #**7074** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 10:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by kw5150

You chewed on a lot of toys that had lead paint I think. A good use of telephoto allows you to take pics just like you would see them with your eye. Normal cameras (like cell phone cameras) take all of the magic out of images and spread things out.

Simply not true. Read and learn.

But here if you don't want to click:

The area size captured by a photographic lens can be expressed as a diagonal angular field called Angle of View. Generally speaking, a focal length range that provides a similar perspective to the human eye is considered to be somewhere between 40-60mm. With this established as a standard focal length, those with shorter focal lengths are called "wideangle" and those with longer focal lengths are called"telephoto". The shorter the focal length becomes, the wider the angle of view (wideangle), while the longer it becomes, the narrower the angle of view (telephoto).

A photographic lens provides a visual effect, making closely located subjects larger while remotely located subjects smaller. As the focal length becomes shorter in a wideangle lens, this perspective difference expands making closely located subjects even bigger and remotely located ones even smaller (exaggerated perspective).

In contrast, in a telephoto lens, as focal lengths become longer, less difference is observed between close and distant subjects, making it appear as if they are closer regardless of the distance between them(compressed perspective).

And the insult was not necessary. What is it with Calgary forumers lately ? Is it the early winter that makes you so defensive ? Enough already.

G.S MTL · #**7075** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 10:57 PM**

• Video Link

isaidso · #**7076** Posted **Nov 4, 2013, 11:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Franks' MS paint is too scientific for all of you Calgariansis to understand.

I have to admit it made me laugh out loud.

KW: If you want to make the case for Calgary density, it's wise not to include photos like these 2 below. The first one has a good km of virgin land at the top left while the other features houses in a see of trees. That's not what most people think of when we think of a dense city. In the denser areas depicted in the bottom of each photo, what is the population density? I'm guessing around 10,000 square/km?