Aerial Photos - Page 37

Ex-Ithacan · #**721** Posted **Mar 1, 2014, 2:42 AM**

^ Wow, that looks even bigger than Ithaca!!!!

coolcanadian · #**722** Posted **Mar 1, 2014, 4:34 AM**

Toronto:

summersm343 · #**723** Posted **Mar 2, 2014, 5:58 PM**

Tom Servo · #**724** Posted **Mar 4, 2014, 4:54 PM**

Was looking up pictures of aircraft and came across this bad ass picture of Houston, Texas.

highgallery.com

Tom Servo · #**725** Posted **Mar 4, 2014, 5:19 PM**

Also came across these...

filtermagazine.com

Don't know how to post these videos, but they are pretty cool:
http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip...l/4247087:8/gg

Tom Servo · #**726** Posted **Mar 4, 2014, 5:23 PM**

sbnation

zimbio

AviationGuy · #**727** Posted **Mar 5, 2014, 1:31 AM**

What interesting about the Houston photo is that the cleared land adjacent to downtown (4th ward) is now filled in mostly with condos. Infill has occurred or is occurring around downtown such that the old ghetto wards are disappearing.

shakman · #**728** Posted **Mar 5, 2014, 4:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tom Servo

^^^ it's probably the biggest and most dense looking pic of Houston I've seen yet. Reminds me more of the Dallas skyline from that angle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...on_skyline.jpg Relative to density, I like this one. There is another photo from the East Loop, crossing over the Buffalo Bayou, which is quite amazing.

Tom Servo · #**729** Posted **Mar 5, 2014, 7:55 PM**

This one is pretty old, but it's cool nonetheless.

Found this gem too:

both from wiki

Zapatan · #**730** Posted **Mar 5, 2014, 8:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tom Servo

Was looking up pictures of aircraft and came across this bad ass picture of Houston, Texas.

highgallery.com

I really like Houston's skyscrapers but it really needs some small filler buildings... like hundreds of them, then maybe it will look like a city.

I think this may be an old picture too, I'm sure it looks better now.

Tom Servo · #**731** Posted **Mar 5, 2014, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zapatan

I really like Houston's skyscrapers but it really needs some small filler buildings... like hundreds of them, then maybe it will look like a city.

I think this may be an old picture too, I'm sure it looks better now.

Can't be too old. I see that Discovery Green park in the picture. Wasn't that built within the last 4 or 5 years or so? My guess is 2009 or 10.

It's funny, of all the really sick aerial photos posted in this thread, the ones that get talked about the most are the Houston ones. And it always starts with the Houston members claiming the photos are too old or that the city looks more dense from different angles etc... Who cares? It's really weird. I just thought the jets looked cool flying over an American city. Could've been downtown San Diego...

Tom Servo · #**732** Posted **Mar 5, 2014, 9:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by summersm343

This is really cool! I really had to zoom in to tell what city this is... one of the coolest photos of Philly I've seen!

Reverberation · #**733** Posted **Mar 5, 2014, 10:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zapatan

I really like Houston's skyscrapers but it really needs some small filler buildings... like hundreds of them, then maybe it will look like a city.

I think this may be an old picture too, I'm sure it looks better now.

Though I can't match the angle exactly, that neighborhood looks like this now - or as of 1 year ago;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4939487...34317/sizes/l/

AviationGuy · #**734** Posted **Mar 6, 2014, 1:44 AM**

Wow...good find, Reverb. I think the infill corresponds pretty much to the lots that had been cleared in the other photo. Shows really well just how fast the core is changing.

AviationGuy · #**735** Posted **Mar 6, 2014, 1:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by Zapatan

I really like Houston's skyscrapers but it really needs some small filler buildings... like hundreds of them, then maybe it will look like a city.

I think this may be an old picture too, I'm sure it looks better now.

There are probably many scores of smaller filler buildings (e.g., mid rise condos and apartments) having been built recently all over the city, including close to downtown, and several clusters of talls that are like medium sized cities by themselves. Someone posted a parorama showing the clusters of talls a while back, but I don't recall what thread it was in.