Pictures of your city

[sorindafabico]

Let's post images from the cities where we live. General pics and some points of interest of each city. People living in famous cities like London, NYC, etc. could post pics of less known places of their area.


Here's mine. Porto Alegre is the southernmost brazilian state capital (~500 km from the borders with Argentina and Uruguay). With 1,5 million inhabitants, it's the core of the fourth largest metropolitan area (4,4 million) in Brazil. The city lies on the eastern bank of the Guaíba Lake, formed by five rivers (Jacuí, Gravataí, dos Sinos, Caí and Taquari) and is one of the hosts of the next FIFA World Cup.

Aerial view of the downtown and part of the port. The Usina do Gasômetro is on the right corner, it's an old coal plant turned into cultural center.

The public market, typical feature of portuguese colonization and of the historical district.

This is a water treatment plant.

Rua Gonçalo de Carvalho, a beautiful street.

Porto Alegre has a lot of parks. Here's the Moinhos de Vento park.

The delta of the Jacuí river.

A somewhat old picture of the Beira-Rio stadium, where five World Cup games are scheduled.

 

[mojoey]

Jay Littleton Ballpark in Ontario, California, was the ballpark where they filmed 'A League of Their Own'. That's really all we have...

We've also got Ontario INTL Airport, and MagLite...

 

[Scav]

Thank ya, sir! :tiphat:

Here's some pics I shot near the Como Zoo and Conservatory, St. Paul, MN back in early September:



I found a lovely area a little bit off the beaten path (but still in a public area of the park), and fell in love with these trees. The zoo and conservatory is in the middle-ish part of the capital of Minnesota, and as such is a really neat, quiet spot in the middle of busy civilization.






The scenery here provided me a wonderful refresher course in framing objects within a viewfinder; I love nature photography, and shooting pictures at things that don't bark at you when you point a camera at them. People, included.



A wonderful example of how nature takes care of itself. A dead, rotting tree being processed in the middle of a biome-within-a-biome.




:hello:

 

[sorindafabico]

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[Scav]

Pics don't open here

Bah, I was afraid of that. I'm still learning how to work fully with the hosting server, and I adjusted the permissions; are you able to copy them now?

(Edit: Wow. That was almost more work than it was worth. -500 cool points to me. :blush: )

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[Cras]

Sometimes I live here

A picture of the Tennis Center in Indian Wells. Hosts a pretty big ATP and WTA tournament, which is always good fun to attend.

Live around the corner from there

We also got mountains.

And Joshua Tree Park is just down the road.


Sometimes I live here,

and at times, I live here:

where the public schools are a joke, the police department is totally overwhelmed, record high murder rate, and the whole city smells like old nasty chocolate at night.

 

[Star Voyager]

Where I used to live:

A few miles to the north of that:

Where I live now:

Guess which one I prefer ?

 

[Scav]

A few miles to the north of that:

That's an old picture. The VAB still has its Bicentennial Star on it.

 

[Star Voyager]

I know, but people still get the picture (pun intended :thumbup.

 

[sorindafabico]

Bah, I was afraid of that. I'm still learning how to work fully with the hosting server, and I adjusted the permissions; are you able to copy them now?

(Edit: Wow. That was almost more work than it was worth. -500 cool points to me. :blush: )

(Edit edit: Wow. That was more work than it was worth. Forget the third-party hosting for right now. I uploaded the goods directly here. )

Yes! Pretty bucolic, the place remembers my father's little farm.

 

[Urwumpe]

I live here:

More exactly, in the city forest right behind this landmark:

From time to time, you can find me here:

 

[Artlav]

Moscow!

If you know where to look, you can still find the threatened species "homo communistus".

They still remember their forefathers.

Being nearly extinct, they are carefully guarded.

On such days the roads are closed nearby, and people walk to and fro.

On the other days, there are still plenty of open spaces.

Where police rides on horsebacks.

From above, you can see a regular bus/subway hub:

An old style residential area:

Or more recent residential places:

In the nearby accolyte, Zelenograd, the buildings are different:

Himki, the former town under the trees, is now a painted place with a big stadium.
We were never good at football, but we keep trying.

Sometimes things get ablaze.

Sometimes it's a quiet night.
Over the Volga-Moskva canal:

Sometimes enough snow falls to make the night from day:

The other day the sky is clear:

And you can watch the sun rise.

The roads are a bad place to get around on.
Sometimes the other kind of people, who consider themselves gods, close down whole highways.

So people stream underground.

Into the most capacious subway system in the world.

And ride the trains under the earth.

While self-appointed gods race the empty roads, dearly afraid of the people they govern.

Bonus, and infra-red shot:

 

[Spacethingy]

Not a city, but Weymouth is home:

A nice place, shame it's sort of where the Black Death started in Britain... :shifty:

Home to the sea, perfect for children:

(ex-WW2 mine...)

The old pier, before a friend of a friend burned it down with a blowtorch (accidentally, we hope):

Our only landmark on Google Earth; mind you, broadband speeds haven't really improved since it was built:

I can't not mention the Olympics, so here they are:

(The boats in question are about 2 miles away...)

But all in all... I love this place! :thumbup:

 

[george7378]

Well since I live in the English countryside, my 'city' mainly consists of views like this (on the rare sunny days, anyway):

...however, the nearest town is called Gainsborough, and we go there for pretty much everything we need. Here are some pictures:

The famous 'old hall' which is probably the central landmark of the town:

Here it is in the winter:

Here's a view up the river that runs past the town:

Finally, here's a view of the church in the small village I live in:

 

[Izack]

Er, wait a minute...real life?

Another country-dweller here. This picture is nearly a year outdated, but the trees are changing again anyway so it's mostly accurate.

Whenever I get my camera back from my brother (who was photographic electrified pickles, but that's another story) I can crawl around Moncton and take some pictures. In the meantime I'll let Wikipedia do the work for me:

I used to work at a restaurant at that waterpark in the middle...it's more or less our only tourist trap other than the new casino, and I worked at the restaurant there too.

 

[Codz]

Great thread! My city is Covington, Georgia, which is very close to Atlanta.

 

[SiberianTiger]

If we trust a developer firm which is making works in my neighborhood, in few years all the fences and construction sites around are gone, and the view might be like this, with lots of light pollution:

The depressive dark apartment block in the down right corner is really where I live.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Hmm.... it's difficult to choose from so many photos out there..... :hmm:

And this is [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha_Tin"]the suburb valley that I live in[/ame]:

 

[george7378]

This is an awesome thread - Galactic Penguin - the streets of Hong Kong remind me a lot of New York! I think it actually has its own Times Square too, if I remember!

 

[Mattyv]

Good ol' Cincinnati:

NASA's image of the day a few weeks ago.

A lot of people here hate it, but it's home.

The Roebling Suspension Bridge, designed by the same guy who did the Brooklyn Bridge:

The unofficial center of downtown, Fountain Square:

My old High School:

Were I spend most of my time now: