The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 448

G.S MTL · #**8941** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 9:46 PM**

snow in Edmonton? .... we still have no snow in MTL! and weather is getting warmer next week... like double digit highs ! loving this winter

leftimage · #**8942** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 10:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

Living in Vancouver would be so frustrating in winter. You can see the snow, but you don't have any.

Sounds like my idea of perfection. It's within reach, but it isn't ruining your day in 25 different ways.

I wonder how many Vancouver folks wish they had snow in the city... To them I say: Come to Montreal during a snowstorm and/or the months of Jan/Feb. It's not cute. We're talking brown swaths of ice/snow layers embedded with damage-inducing rock pebbles. Oh and don't get it on your hands or clothes - dirty white stains and the penetrating sting of giant salt chips will ensue.

Snow makes the city look and feel like absolute shit from street level. It also creates hazardous 'everyday life' situations. You can't walk, drive or dress nonchalantly. You can't wear nice things or drive a nice car. You have to share the sidewalks and roads with snow removal contraptions whose drivers assume your survival instinct will keep you safe.

Hence why seeing green grass all over Montreal in December is neither sad, nor a cause for concern. It's rejoiceful imo. Sucks for our local ski resorts, but their lack of snow has more to do with the fact they are located on baby-sized mountains.

Snow in a smaller town, otoh, is charming.

Chadillaccc · #**8943** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 10:28 PM**

http://www.codyjames.ca/calgary-commercial-photographer/

franktko · #**8944** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 10:41 PM**

^ Very nice shot - I always liked the Western Canadian towers, especially when they're crazy-reflecting-gold!

Spring2008 · #**8945** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 11:13 PM**

Lets Call it an Evening by Anotherstateofmind, on Flickr

Calgary by Mohsen Kamalzadeh, on Flickr

Calgary Sunset-8185-Edit-Edit.jpg by Kyle Davies, on Flickr

Peace Bridge and downtown Calgary on frosty evening by Michael Perkins, on Flickr

Calgary downtown- pano HDR by shaolin mo, on Flickr

Calgary City Center. by Peter Friess, on Flickr

scrapin · #**8946** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 11:48 PM**

^^^Wow. That density, those sleek modern buildings.

Spring2008 · #**8947** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 11:49 PM**

Old and new

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/

Monolith · #**8948** Posted **Dec 18, 2015, 11:55 PM**

Tour de Vancouver. by Bill Kempthorne, on Flickr Taken on December 16, 2015

Govertical · #**8949** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 4:36 AM**

Wow!, those mountains look so dreamy..

FrAnKs · #**8950** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 4:46 AM**

Those aerial shots of Vancouver are epic.

ssiguy · #**8951** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 5:15 AM**

Great pics! I couldn't even figure out where the pic was taken. At first I thought it might have been Halifax until I looked down and saw the new Port Mann and realized it was NuWest.

CurtisVerbatim · #**8952** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 7:46 AM**

Those shots are amazing. it's a really unique angle that i've never seen before

Locked In · #**8953** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 9:33 PM**

Great photos. Love the shot of Coquitlam/PoCo/Port Moody.

Bcasey25raptor · #**8954** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 9:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Monolith

Tour de Vancouver. by Bill Kempthorne, on Flickr Taken on December 16, 2015

The first photo here stumped me for the longest time, I thought I was looking at Montreal, but wow, this is an angle of Greater Vancouver I don't really see often.

Nouvellecosse · #**8955** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 10:34 PM**

Those first couple pictures actually make NWM look like a major city!

Well, major in the Winnipeg or Hamilton sense, not major in the Toronto sense.

O-tacular · #**8956** Posted **Dec 19, 2015, 10:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

http://www.codyjames.ca/calgary-commercial-photographer/

My favourite angle of Calgary's DT.

SkahHigh · #**8957** Posted **Dec 20, 2015, 6:10 AM**

A City of Light by Sam Skinner, sur Flickr

Rico Rommheim · #**8958** Posted **Dec 20, 2015, 6:36 AM**

^That's a good angle, probably one of the best angles. The Deloitte really made itself at home in the skyline. Pity it'll disappear in few years.

Pinion · #**8959** Posted **Dec 20, 2015, 9:25 AM**

Great Fraser Valley shots. Here are the north shore mountains with the new dusting we had

The view from Jericho by Stephen Rees, on Flickr

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beedok

Living in Vancouver would be so frustrating in winter. You can see the snow, but you don't have any.

This sentence doesn't make any sense to me.

It's the best of both worlds. You know you can drive up to the top of the mountains in my photo above?

Bcasey25raptor · #**8960** Posted **Dec 20, 2015, 10:56 AM**

Personally i don't mind the rain and clouds. Keeps the grass green.

Personally I think Vancouver would be better if it got a little more snow more often.

For example, I think Chilliwack probably has the best climate in Canada, hot humid summers, but mild winters with much more snow than Vancouver.