The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 198

Razor · #**3941** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 2:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

About 2 hours away by car (from Montreal)

Closer then I thought then..We can almost do DT Montreal in a buck and a half...QC could practically be a weekend then, with perhaps a Friday or Monday booked off for good measure.

FrAnKs · #**3942** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 2:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Razor

^ Closer then I thought then..We can almost do DT Montreal in a buck and a half...QC could practically be a weekend then, with perhaps a Friday or Monday booked off for good measure.

It depend if you prefer visiting in winter or summer but these days the cold wind is literally killing you...it's a hard time to really enjoy & visit the city at my opinion.

hipster duck · #**3943** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 2:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal

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Winter in Quebec City by po.fortin, on Flickr

What's this neighbourhood like? Is it as dense and vibrant as it looks from the air?

I mean, the right side of the photograph could be Astoria, Queens.

Razor · #**3944** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 2:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

It depend if you prefer visiting in winter or summer but these days the cold wind is literally killing you...it's a hard time to really enjoy & visit the city at my opinion.

I think the Fall would be a good time..It's my fave time to travel actually.

Chadillaccc · #**3945** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 2:31 AM**

It wasn't my intention to post an "empty" shot of the Edmonton skyline, I thought it was nice. Peak aerials just doesn't have many shots of Edmonton.

Here are there other good ones for Edmonton and Ottawa...

http://www.stockaerialphotos.com/-/galle...ae-491e-a31a-abe35797140c-ottawa-ontario

http://www.stockaerialphotos.com/-/galle...-4051-aa8a-3c9dac6c3492-edmonton-alberta

Razor · #**3946** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 2:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by fortroad

These Cities are so different:
Edmonton's Highrises are spread over a huge area which makes the city look larger than it is.
Ottawa's lack of height emphasizes the Parliament buildings and scenery.
Calgary is like an old growth forest, Thick and Tall.

Good assessment!..Calgary did it right by intensifying their office space in the dt...Edmonton seems to have office building space or clusters of office campuses spread out. I know Ottawa has this going on all over the city as well..It would of been cool to see some of Kanata's high tech complexes or some of the gov't campuses moved into Ottawa's core..If Edmonton did this, you could tell how amazing that city's dt would look..It's decent enough as it is though.

Monolith · #**3947** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 4:06 AM**

Downtown Vancouver - West End by Skidmore.Photography, on Flickr Uploaded on January 29, 2015

lio45 · #**3948** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 4:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Mrs Sauga

WOW

Had no idea the other side looked like that

The "other side" is actually the triangle you see on the right (that has the Davie shipyard at its tip, those cranes near the water).

The top part of the picture is a very rural island in the middle of the St Lawrence River.

The only visible parts of the north shore (the side on which Quebec City is) are very urbanized in this shot (downtown) but it becomes rural fairly quickly too as you drive east along the river (you'll end up to the left of the top of the picture).

What you can see of the south shore is also missing downtown Lévis (by not much, but nonetheless missing; would be just to the right of the pic) as well as its only couple tall buildings. The south shore also becomes rural fairly quickly as you drive away.

lio45 · #**3949** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 4:21 AM**

This one actually shows both shores as well as Orleans Island.

(I'm saying that for Mrs Sauga not you guys.

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Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal

Quebec City by Max Eccli., on Flickr

GreaterMontréal · #**3950** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 6:30 AM**

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What's this neighbourhood like? Is it as dense and vibrant as it looks from the air?

I mean, the right side of the photograph could be Astoria, Queens.

it's Quartier Saint-Sauveur. pop. 16,100 4km²

900 companies employing more than 12 000 people.

quartier Saint-Sauveur + quartier Saint-Roch,
- pop. 25,000
- 4520/km²

http://media.reseauforum.org/node/4424

http://www.obvcapitale.org/plans-directe...tiques-humaines-du-territoire/population

SkahHigh · #**3951** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 3:38 PM**

Panasonic FZ1000, Montréal Skyline, Montréal, 25 January 2015 (1) by proacguy1, on Flickr

FrAnKs · #**3952** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 4:05 PM**

Is it possible to see a 100% HARD-frozen St-Lawrence in front of Montréal ?

Szoki Adams · #**3953** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 5:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Szoki, I hope now that you've created a profile that you'll drop by again and perhaps share some more of your images first hand!

I will certainly give it a go. But, right now, I really don't have a lot of cityscape shots going on in my Flickr portfolio. Not sure the Marilyn towers, up close, in Mississauga would qualify as a 'scape, per se.

I also have some artsy shots of the Deloitte building in Mississauga. Again, not really a cityscape.

I see Rico packed up and fled. Didn't mean to scare him off, although I was clearly displeased...

Thanks for the welcome.

MonkeyRonin · #**3954** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 5:40 PM**

Amazing couple of pages here. Calgary & environs look so majestic here. Perfect shot: http://s3.amazonaws.com/medias.photodeck...-c54f84c98edd/13-10-25-0328a_xgaplus.jpg

Hamilton lookin' lush & tropical: http://oi59.tinypic.com/2yllj4m.jpg

...and then a little more like a rusty, red brick Appalachian city: http://www.metroperspectives.com/img/s1/v22/p682153964-5.jpg

And then there were those Quebec City aerials...damn.
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/136484107161180557aae6a1f3fh1.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7583/16311816002_c1f48ffcd9_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7579/16286749366_dc0c4e7672_b.jpg

le calmar · #**3955** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 5:42 PM**

Szoki Adams I took a look at your pictures on flickr and love them, so I decided to follow you. There is a section on this forum that is dedicated to personal photos and we have at least 2 members who mainly focus on random people shots (Kingofthehill, don't know if he is still around though, and mr. john who also happen to live in Montreal) I tried to take people shots in the past but I'm not good at it, so I decided to focus on urban streetscapes and architecture

Szoki Adams · #**3956** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 5:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Szoki Adams

I will certainly give it a go. But, right now, I really don't have a lot of cityscape shots going on in my Flickr portfolio. Not sure the Marilyn towers, up close, in Mississauga would qualify as a 'scape, per se.

I also have some artsy shots of the Deloitte building in Mississauga. Again, not really a cityscape.

I see Rico packed up and fled. Didn't mean to scare him off, although I was clearly displeased...

Thanks for the welcome.

No, I guess Rico didn't flee. Nor has he responded yet in any way. I just didn't realize at first that he was on a different page. Just getting used to the system.

I hope he fixes it.

Szoki Adams · #**3957** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 5:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by le calmar

Szoki Adams I took a look at your pictures on flickr and love them, so I decided to follow you. There is a section on this forum that is dedicated to personal photos and we have at least 2 members who mainly focus on random people shots (Kingofthehill, don't know if he is still around though, and mr. john who also happen to live in Montreal) I tried to take people shots in the past but I'm not good at it, so I decided to focus on urban streetscapes and architecture

Thanks for the nice words, the follow and the instructions. I will take a look around.

BTW, we prefer to call is Street Photography, or Candid Photography. Random People Shots sounds, well... too random. Street photographers look for actual content and composition and story. We like to think of it as Art. Kind of like the works of Henri Cartier Bresson, Vivian Maier, Kertesz, etc.

SignalHillHiker · #**3958** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 5:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Szoki Adams

No, I guess Rico didn't flee. Nor has he responded yet in any way. I just didn't realize at first that he was on a different page. Just getting used to the system.

I hope he fixes it.

Oh, no worries, he will. He's not a dick in that way. And if he doesn't, someone else will fix it for him.

****

Love the defense of street photography. Never heard those terms before, and it's not my thing (too shy), but I get what you mean that it takes skill and talent.

SignalHillHiker · #**3959** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 6:11 PM**

You should start a thread, Szoki. Canadian Candid Photography. And share your stuff. Others will too, of course, but you have good pictures there and it'd be worthwhile to show them off here.

le calmar · #**3960** Posted **Jan 31, 2015, 6:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Szoki Adams

Thanks for the nice words, the follow and the instructions. I will take a look around.

BTW, we prefer to call is Street Photography, or Candid Photography. Random People Shots sounds, well... too random. Street photographers look for actual content and composition and story.

Hehehe I suppose that's why I was never good at it, I didn't have this ability. (I can make a composition architecture wise though, I suppose I am more a technical person)