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I sincerely thought that was Los Angeles for like two seconds.
Haha I guess I can see that if you take away the landmarks and were glancing really quickly at the skyline profile/silhouette. You’ve got buildings at pretty similar heights with multiple peaks of varying heights spread out.
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Haha I guess I can see that if you take away the landmarks and were glancing really quickly at the skyline profile/silhouette. You’ve got buildings at pretty similar heights with multiple peaks of varying heights spread out.
lol I think I just sort of saw the skyline in my peripheral vision and was trying to figure out where there's a suspension bridge that close to downtown LA... then I realized that was Salesforce, not Library. haha
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Me too before I saw the bridge on the right.
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^ Great shot! I love photos where skyscrapers appear to be sprouting out of city parks. NYC obviously has this with Central Park, Atlanta with Piedmont Park, Chicago has Lincoln on the north and the whole Grant/Millennium complex on the east/south...can't think of too many others.
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^ Great shot! I love photos where skyscrapers appear to be sprouting out of city parks. NYC obviously has this with Central Park, Atlanta with Piedmont Park, Chicago has Lincoln on the north and the whole Grant/Millennium complex on the east/south...can't think of too many others.
Austin with multiple: Zilker, Auditorium Shores, and Pease.
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^ Great shot! I love photos where skyscrapers appear to be sprouting out of city parks. NYC obviously has this with Central Park, Atlanta with Piedmont Park, Chicago has Lincoln on the north and the whole Grant/Millennium complex on the east/south...can't think of too many others.

Houston from Buffalo Bayou Park.


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Los Angeles from Echo Park.


Echo Park, Los Angeles 2
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Maybe to a lesser extent San Francisco from Dolores Park.


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Toronto from Riverdale Park.


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^ Great shot! I love photos where skyscrapers appear to be sprouting out of city parks. NYC obviously has this with Central Park, Atlanta with Piedmont Park, Chicago has Lincoln on the north and the whole Grant/Millennium complex on the east/south...can't think of too many others.
Boston from the gardens.

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^ Great shot! I love photos where skyscrapers appear to be sprouting out of city parks. NYC obviously has this with Central Park, Atlanta with Piedmont Park, Chicago has Lincoln on the north and the whole Grant/Millennium complex on the east/south...can't think of too many others.
Tel Aviv has 2 skylines that can be viewed from the same park.

The main Tel Aviv skyline (the part you can see from the park that is, which is missing much of the skyline):

The Bnei Brak skyline:
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Here's a traffic helicopter shot of Nashville's increasingly beefy skyline... and with fifty tower cranes currently it's only going to get beefier...

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