Two Skylines In One Shot????

[MonkeyRonin]

Toronto's North York, Yonge & Eglinton, and Downtown skylines shown here:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/neuroti...7602133242099/


And here you can (just barely) see the Niagara Falls skyline on the horizon: (top left)


http://www.flickr.com/photos/nguyenbrian/

[HomrQT]

I scanned through the thread and didn't see this one. It's an older shot of Evanston, IL and Chicago.



From http://kooiii.com

[pesto]

Lots of really great shots. Thanks to everyone!

It had never struck me how many cities have multi-nodal structures with legit skyscrapers.

[ChiSoxRox]

Originally Posted by Austinlee

As we speculated in that other thread, it [a panorama including Philly and New York] would have to be taken prolly from a helicopter midway between the two cities, multiple photos stitched together but it would be the holy grail of American skyline shots.

Amen. I bet someone's had the same thought; time to dig through Flickr...

Edit: No such luck, but Philadelphia City Hall to the middle of Lower Manhattan is exactly 80 miles. Trenton is a 51/39 mile split between NY and Philly, so I wonder if someone could be ingenious (or lucky) enough to get on the roof of a highrise in Trenton to get the elusive panorama.

Edit 2: Trenton's tallest is 14 floors, which might not be high enough to counteract 51 miles and low hills to New York, but that panorama seems quite possible if anyone knows of a helicopter tour around Trenton or a New York helicopter tour willing to go some distance southwest of the city to get Philly in focus....

[KevinFromTexas]

You would think with all the air traffic buzzing around New York and Philly that someone would have gotten a photo of it, even if they hadn't meant to.

[Centropolis]

Another St. Louis/Clayton shot with a Central West End filling.


st louis and clayton by jason w holloway, on Flickr

[Clevelumbus]

I never got in the Jersey area when I was flying (aerial mapping). I was able to see Boston and New York City skylines simultaneously when we were just west of Providence, NYC was pretty distant but I could see it - crappy camera wasn't good enough to cut through the haze. (10,000 feet - NYC was about 120 miles, Boston 50)

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

You think it would be possible to Get LA, Long Beach and SD in one shot?

[ChiSoxRox]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

You think it would be possible to Get LA, Long Beach and SD in one shot?

That one would have at least two factors making it a more difficult shot than even New York-Philadelphia:

1. Downtown Los Angeles and Downtown San Diego are 110 miles apart, so the curvature of the Earth would be significantly sharper than New York-Philly. However, if Clevelumbus could see Boston and New York at the same time, that's a similar straight line distance.

2. Mountains could block the view, especially with how rugged northern San Diego County is. Thus, a clear picture would likely have to be off over the ocean, and be angled so that the rugged terrain around La Jolla isn't in the way. Unfortunately, La Jolla sticks out right in the line of sight.

[Unity77]

St. Paul and Minneapolis



Photo: Punchup

[KevinFromTexas]

Going by that, you could probably see Austin and San Antonio's skylines from the air. Downtown to downtown they're only 80 miles apart, and the north side of San Antonio is 60 miles from the southern edge of Austin. Our metros are actually touching 40 miles from each city. Also San Antonio's suburban skylines are all on the northside of the city, so you might be able to see some of them.

Nice pic of the Twin Cities up there. That has to be one of the more impressive metros around.

[Okayyou]

Took this shot a few days ago. I find it interesting not because of the buildings in the skylines but because of the contrast between the two cities.



The city on the right is Dandong, China. Across the river on the left side of the image is the city of the Sinuiju, North Korea. It doesn't even have a skyline, most of the buildings are less than four stories. Two cities, two different histories, two different governments, only a river apart.

[HurricaneHugo]

[202_Cyclist]

Originally Posted by Cirrus

There is a suburban office building about halfway between DC and Baltimore that's about 13 stories tall. From the top floor you can see both cities, but you can't get them in a single picture since you have to look out different windows.

There are lots of examples of multiple DC suburban skylines being in the same picture, though. If you don't mind that they're all smaller, of course. Here's Rosslyn (foreground) with Tysons Corner (background):


from flickr user adamsjp2010

When 1812 North Moore and Central Place are completed in Rosslyn and all of the planned buildings, including some expected 300-400 foot buildings in Rosslyn,this view is going to. Be quite impressive. I would think from the Cityline condos in Tenley, you could see Tysons, Rosslyn, and Bethesda.

[Illithid Dude]

Two skylines? Try five.

[Urbana]

views of the LA Basin at night never cease to amaze me.

[ChiSoxRox]

Yeah, quite impressive. Although it's a shame about all that light pollution.

[mello]

Hugo: Nice job with the TJ and SD shot. Damn that pic is super zoomed in though. You can almost see all the houses on La Jolla 20+ miles away.

Dralcoffin: Very good knowledge of Southern California geography. I agree with you to try and get downtown San Diego and LA in one shot you would probably have to take a plane or hot air balloon out over the Ocean maybe 5 miles offshore of San Clemente (The halfway coastal point between the 2 downtowns) and do a crazy pano from 10,000 feet up lol. It could be possible on an extremely clear day but that is the only way you could do it.

I worked for a guy who does the hot air balloon rides east of Solana Beach/Del Mar and he said on a really clear day he took his friends up to 10,000 feet and he could clearly see the LA skyline. Crazy, I would have loved to have seen that

[plinko]

Cirrus is correct, it is certainly possible to see both Tampa and St. Pete from many locations around the bay. But the only place I found where you could see both in one shot (without panning) is from the south end of the Sunshine Skyway near Bradenton:



From that area, St. Pete is 13 miles away and Tampa is 26.

From the causeway to Clearwater, you can clearly see all of the built-up areas of the Bay as well. Here's Tampa, along with its Westshore skyline and the area near the convention center and the McDill peninsula:



Unfortunately my attempt at a pano from that spot did not come out and thus I don't have the angle of St. Pete from there.

[mello]

^^^ Good lord is Florida flat you can tell the curvature of the earth is making the buildings shorter in those shots. I love the beaches and bays but the flatness would get to me after a while if I had to move there being a California native.