Skylines From Far Far Away Thread

[photoLith]

Man, that above photo of Chicago is freaking epic.

[Labtec]

Atlanta from Kennesaw Mountain 25-30 miles away.


Atlanta Skyline from Kennesaw Mountain by Wayne Hsieh, on Flickr

From Stone Mountain (around 18 miles away).


Atop Stone Mountain by Charles Hollman, on Flickr


Atlanta Skyline at Sunrise by RJ DiBella, on Flickr

[M II A II R II K]

Stay Glassy Chicago.jpg by Milosh Kosanovich, on Flickr

[dave8721]

Miami from Hialeah somewhere (too bad the glare cuts out the skyline running up the coast on the left):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/united...ca/50237257862

[chris08876]

One of Chicago as viewed from the condo of a squirrel.





Dune Life Sunset.jpg by Milosh Kosanovich, on Flickr

[bnk]

Originally Posted by M II A II R II K

Stay Glassy Chicago.jpg by Milosh Kosanovich, on Flickr

That's an interesting pic

any ideas of where it was taken


I think that's a rare advantage due to the exceptional weather and prefect atmospheric weather phenomenon. Perhaps on a boat. looks too far from Michigan or Even parts further close from Indiana. Phehaps from an elevation. I have seen many reverse images from further away pics but nothing so clear.

I cant figure out how wanda is north of Trump Tower. Id like longitude where that was taken. Looks like a south east pic looking north west. Indiana?

[JManc]

^ Photographer probably used an ND filter to smooth out the water and had the shutter wide open for a while.

The Chicago ones really give you an idea the curvature of the earth. Also, the buildings are (ever so slightly) 'leaning away' from the photographer.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by bnk

That's an interesting pic

any ideas of where it was taken

The arrangement of the buildings looks very close to the angle one gets from the main beach at Indiana Dunes State Park.

that's a distance of ~33 miles over the water.

[homebucket]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEfUpWUhU97/

[MonkeyRonin]

Toronto from 50km away: (somewhere across the lake to the southwest)


DSC00552 by Tauseef Latif, on Flickr

[Maldive]

One more I posted in another thread: The White Cliffs of Dover (west)


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[Pedestrian]

San Francisco from the Presidio during the fires


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/s...1271601362.jpg

[jd3189]

^^^ I wonder why it particularly looks like that in SF. It got very close to that in the IE on Monday but it will still just white and foggy. Is it just the fire smoke mixing with the regular fog?

[ChiSoxRox]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

San Francisco from the Presidio during the fires


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/s...1271601362.jpg

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate.

-- Dante Alighieri

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by jd3189

^^^ I wonder why it particularly looks like that in SF. It got very close to that in the IE on Monday but it will still just white and foggy. Is it just the fire smoke mixing with the regular fog?

On TV they are saying it was a layered effect with smoke high in the atmosphere filtering out light on the blue end of the spectrum and then below there was fog doing what fog does. So the net result was red fog.

The red coloration really was from exactly the same phenomenon as on Mars except on Mars the particulates in the atmosphere are dust and here it was ash.

[chris08876]

Pics by me. Taken yesterday. More pics in the flickr, but I don't want to make them too large because some folks bitch about size lol. Get a bigger resolution screen!

NYC/Newark/Jersey City from West Orange NJ (Eagle Rock Reservation):

Newark NJ:


Eagle Rock 09-12-2020 - 5 (Newark NJ) by Christopher Estevez, on Flickr

JC/NYC:


Eagle Rock 09-12-2020 - 6 by Christopher Estevez, on Flickr



Eagle Rock 09-12-2020 - 3 by Christopher Estevez, on Flickr

[chris08876]

Lower Manhattan...

Jersey City blends into it. Also, look carefully, but portions of DoBro.



Eagle Rock 09-12-2020 - 13 by Christopher Estevez, on Flickr

[M II A II R II K]

Another Touchdown!.jpg by Milosh Kosanovich, on Flickr




Sliver of Sunset Over Chicago.jpg by Milosh Kosanovich, on Flickr




Aversion Layer Over Chicago.jpg by Milosh Kosanovich, on Flickr




Burn Baby Burn Chicago.jpg by Milosh Kosanovich, on Flickr

[jd3189]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

On TV they are saying it was a layered effect with smoke high in the atmosphere filtering out light on the blue end of the spectrum and then below there was fog doing what fog does. So the net result was red fog.

The red coloration really was from exactly the same phenomenon as on Mars except on Mars the particulates in the atmosphere are dust and here it was ash.

Interesting. The fire smoke did seem to be high up in the atmosphere on the zoom earth website.

[MonkeyRonin]

Burnaby (Metrotown) from just off the coast of Nanaimo, an approx. 50km distance:


My photo