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I would like to point out that this is in fact an image used by a puzzle company (I have done the puzzle before with my girlfriend last year for Christmas): https://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-Games-Earthpix-Collection-Fireworks/dp/B07D8FMVG8
Stockholm is the capital and largest city of Sweden, with nearly 2 million inhabitants within its vicinities.
The inner city is made up of 14 islands connected by some 50 bridges on Lake Mälaren, which flows into the brackish Baltic Sea, and passes the Stockholm archipelago with some 24,000 islands and islets.
Stockholm is a cosmopolitan place with both classical and modern architecture, and a captivating Old Town, Gamla Stan. Over 30% of the city area is made up of waterways, and another 30% is made up of green spaces. Air quality is fourth best of the European capitals - behind Zurich, Copenhagen and Vienna.
I couldn't really find a clear original source even after an extensive Google Image search, but here is where I got the image.
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The Medes' capital was not Amedi, some think it was at Ectabana but even that is controversial (source)
Not only were the Medes decisively not a Kurdish tribe, it's controversial they're even related
Great pic, but the title contains a lot of misinformation.
So according to you, there are only suburbs in America? We don't have these endless spreads of houses in many other places... In Europe for instance, suburbs are almost always apartment blocks.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suburb
> an outlying part of a city or town
This is what defines a suburb, not its density. Check a map, you'll see that Pétionville perfectly fits this definition relative to Port-au-Prince.
Airbnb on Mont st Michelle Gites are often self catered furnished living spaces as advertised on Airbnb. Only a limited number are Chambre d'Hôtes which Americans would call a B&B.
Haha, oh you.
<strong>Source page</strong> -- /r/ChinaPics
/r/ChinaPics is still pretty much brand new, so I invite anyone to post their photos of China there :)
This picture is a 3 shots panorama. Each of them, is composed of 3 shots taken at different focus points and merged in photoshop, in order to obtain the details both in the chain and in the background, increasing the depth of view.
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It's called the Marina Bay Sands Hotel and it's pretty crazy.
Just returned home from Tbilisi today, a real standout was the vegan Kiwi Cafe. Not always traditional Georgian food, but big cheap portions and a friendly atmosphere.
"Rockefeller's Folly"
They cleared a thriving, if scummy, neighborhood for that. It's so rarely traveled that you can run your finger along the marble on the ground and it comes up clean.
Fuck the egg and fuck 787.
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Probably taken from a high-rise on Nuns' Island.
Looks like Mary St. in the South Side.
Awesome, how did you do this?
I'm planning a trip to, among other places, Istanbul. I visited wikitravel and thought that the picture was a cool one to have as a wallpaper, but it wasn't a good resolution.
Thanks for the high-res!
It probably took days to render on those old Pentiums. Raytracing can create stunning scenes, though. POV-Ray is the software used to generate those.
Higher-resolution version 5,068 kB (3,840 x 2,400) 778%
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Yes it is! I took a bunch of other pictures from the cliff just on top of that park. The view from there is amazing!!
Here is a night view of the 42nd street and here is a night view of financial district. I am currently editing the other shots I took I will post them on my instagram page soon.
It was my first time there, that place is really amazing.
Original Post over at /r/ItalyPhotos, Italy's national photography sub!
It looks like there is a telephoto lens effect occurring, indicating that the photo was taken from a lot further away than it appears.
I think it is taken from Parc De La Promenade, South of the St. Lawrence.
I think the greenery and the three high rises in the foreground are Nun's Island.
You can see a little of the same skyline in the background of this picture. Which was taken from the same place.
Your airfare will likely be higher. Singapore seems to have the lowest cost direct flight. Trust me when I say that avoiding connecting flights will make your entire trip better - they are exhausting.
I am staying here for four nights for a total of $125.80. Lodging depends on how much you want to spend.
When I went to Thailand last summer I used Philippines and paid for a ticket using their signup bonus, so it was free. Currently I use Amex for their travel services and benefits.
Uh, that looks like either the Richmond or the Sunset... have you ever heard of this park?
I literally live on elephant mountain, so it's easy for me to wait for good conditions. I don't have Instagram, but I upload most of my pictures here, free for anyone to use: https://www.pexels.com/@timo-volz-837240
They don't know. Just random people in the city. I did a lot of photography in Tokyo (this album). People act and look differently when they know that a picture is being taken of them. Showing their "good side", not knowing where to put their hands. All portraits are taken with a 135mm lense, so there is a good distance between the subject and me. Candid shots are always much more authentic when you want to portrait a cities people. If I notice that someone would look towards me, I don't do the photo, because it will not be a good shot.
I sometimes, but rarely, talk to the person I took a photo of, especially if they did notice and look to me in an unpleasant way. I will then delete their picture of my camera. But most find it interesting and like the candid photo of theirs.
This guy went on vacation to North Korea? Is this something people do?
I saw that someone posted a black & white version of this about a week ago. The one I added to my wallpaper collection last year was this color version so I thought I would share it as well. I really love the muted colors and the architecture in the foreground.
The original is here with more sizes available for download. Enjoy!
As my browser tries to load this image, it encounters errors. The resolution is higher than my screen in the first place. So alternative methods for viewing are the page on Wikimedia commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_fenghuang_ancient_town_hunan_china_2.jpg
Or a reduced size image. They do this resizing automatically and it's very nice. You can put in your own resolution width in the URL and it will give you what you ask for.
I'm not so sure about that.
In 1979, the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone was formed and since then all 9 cities in the zone (which does not include Hong Kong or Macau) saw explosive growth and it really had little to do with Hong Kong itself.
Dongguan, for example, was booming with economic activity mostly thanks to the shoe and toy industries that set up shop there in the 80s and 90s. From 1983 to 2001, it grew from 168k to over 4M. There's actually a great book called Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China that describes the life of migrant factory workers during this time.
The other thing that happened was Foxconn setting up shop in Longhua in 1988. They started out making very basic electronics components but by the late 90s were making high-margin components for Intel and Sharp. Then there was as certain fruit company that started making a lot of very popular devices in Guangdong in the mid 2000s.
With these 1st tier OEMs and CMs in the region came a number of smaller suppliers that made the tools, equipment and lower-level materials used by these companies. The economic ecosystem there is incredible and it is spread throughout the Guangdong region. Pretty much every inch of land in the province that isn't a mountain is developed and the skyline of Guangzhou is actually as impressive as Shenzhen.
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Hello to everyone, not a proper photo but this fits perfectly here. Look at that layout! If you'd like to make the same street-only maps of your city you could use this
Edit: typo
Near here
Looks recent because the new bay bridge has the suspension cables up
The skyline in Moscow is really out of place compared to the rest of the city. There's skyscrapers around the ones you see here https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1023199501-skyline-view-melbourne-city-cbd-australia-yarra Melbourne is more "natural". That said, the Moscow one is pretty interesting to walk through.
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There's an enjoyable travel series about Greenland with the actor who played Jaime Lannister. His wife is from there and he wanted to explore the country.
This photo was taken from approximately 52.081004, 4.312502
Yep, it's right here.
Not a very pretty neighborhood, even though Canal Saint Martin has its fans.
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Yes. The tapestry is a very cool/important part of European history.
Bayeux is also home to the Bayeux Cathedral. We went to quite a few of the major churches on our trip but this one was one of the best. It really reaches to the sky and looks even larger because it is surrounded by a town of builds which are at most 3-4 stories tall.
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About this image, the artist says, "What if the British Empire didn't collapse after WW2 but spread to the whole world and beyond..?"
I like it because it conjures up feelings of ominous danger. At least to me. But then you see that couple in the far-left of the image, just sitting there, casually taking in the whole scene with no hint of alarm or care, suddenly the whole pic takes a different turn. It's analogous to how technology can, with familiarity, lead to a kind of shrugging acceptance rather than trepidation.
I'm working on new header art for this subreddit. It'll be multiple images instead of one. If you have any favourites that you've seen in this subreddit, please share those URLs or send me a PM.
You haven’t done the basic research which is why I told you to think it over. Your version of events is as close to the opposite of what happened as you can get. Why don’t you start here
The image shows a haboob over Phoenix. Taken from this article on 2011's most powerful images.
A hilariously-named 'Haboob' over Phoenix. Found in this thread of 2009's most powerful images.
You're actually not that far off. This is the view from Ensign Peak in SLC looking North West towards the lake. Salt Lake is in a weird limbo spot where everything immediately East is snowy, pine-foresty rocky mountains, while everything immediately West is the driest desert you've ever seen all the way to Reno. That said, even our deserts are extremely beautiful in their own right.
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=providence,+ri&ie=UTF-8
I live in the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. Cheap rent, bus stop in front of my house, <10 minute walk to any necessity, 20 minute walk to downtown. I'm not bragging or putting down communities that are different from mine. When I criticize sprawling communities, it is because of their less efficient layouts which encourage wasteful use of resources.
That's because the part you're used to seeing (where all the tourists and lots of the shopping, etc. are), looks like this.
I was able to upload the full resolution picture here: <strong>21k resolution</strong>
Pexels source, and a direct link to the full 6000x3376 photo
First time posting here, hope this adheres to posting rules! I took this photo on the Jersey City waterfront in September 2016 (hence the 9/11 memorial lights on the right). Originally posted it to Unsplash but couldn't figure out how to link directly to the full-res image.
See for yourself
https://www.windy.com/-NO2-no2?cams,no2,39.464,127.938,6,i:pressure
Might not be what you meant, but it is the best data source available
This was taken at Flower City Square map with a Canon 550D and the EFS 17-85mm lens. The rainbow colored building is Canton Tower.
Oh yes sorry, it’s a reference to the “Assassin’s creed” series (on PS4/XBOX/..) where the main character has to stand on a monument to “synchronize” the environment in order to create a map for easy travel/ localization.
—> https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/home —> r/AssassinsCreedOdyssey/
Ok I uploaded the photo on imgur.com. Btw author is Emmanuel Iarussi, maybe for that Rekam Brestek deleted this photo from his own archive... to verify here is links: http://www.wallpapers-hd.net/2012/07/florence-sunset-by-emmanuel-iarussi.html http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/2996/florence_sunset.html
I love the perspective in this image. I feel like an ant on the shore looking across the river at New York city.
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Camera details: >Canon EOS 7D, Sigma APO 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM, Adobe Lightroom & Adobe Photoshop.
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Camera info: >Nikon D700, Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED. Shot at 70mm, f/16, 30 seconds
This is one of my favorite desktop images. I love that both older & newer areas & buildings are visible together. More sizes can be found here.
Thanks, I really appreciate that. The amount of processing I do on my photos varies, but I often use (and would recommend trying) Nik Software's Viveza plug-in to give colors more "pop." If you're interested, you can grab an eval/demo version of the entire Nik Collection (including Viveza) here. At the top of the page there's a "Try Now" button where you can choose Mac or Windows.
Don't tear me down, for this is probably not a in-depth interpretation as I would like, but there's a tinted filter that gives the scene a both literal and figurative darker feel: https://unsplash.com/photos/VviFtDJakYk
EDIT: The link I include here is the original.
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A good book on Chicago if you want to learn about its actual proportionate cultural and global impact
Totally understandable with being overwhelmed by some of the artificiality of it. Consider that it was really one of the world's first big tourist destinations, starting over 200 years ago, so they've been in that game for a long time.
But yeah, explore outside of the main parts of the city or better yet, go out very late and very early.
And maybe the locals wouldn't like it as a description, but it kind of is an open air museum - it's better preserved than almost any other constantly inhabited city in Europe, if not the world. There wasn't a lot of damage in either World War, it was never violently sacked, and never destroyed by natural disaster or fire.
Given the 1500 year history of the city, I found a lot of value in reading and listening to a few history books about the city. A few would be City of Fortune and [Pure City](amazon.com/Venice-Pure-City-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/0385531524). The later being less of a real history book and more about capturing the vibe of city via historical context and flowery language - really just as valuable as a standard history. Check out some blogs by locals, like this one.
As an American who has followed the rules this year, I've just been frustrated by not being allowed to travel to Europe.
It's appropriately called The Weather. It goes through Hot/Cold and Wet/Dry IIRC. I really enjoyed it as a kid.
Edit: Link didn't attach properly. The Weather https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009B8F5/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_d7ppxbZV3YPCP
Or maybe the girls just look younger?
In Thailand it just seems soooooo many places practice it, it's literally all around you. I was in Cambo in 2002 and it was like that, when I went back in 2009 they had cleaned most of that up; believe it or not.
If interested a good book about that late 90's to early 2000's time is called Off the Rails in Phnom Penh; an easy read, I picked it up at an airport kiosk in BKK and read it on a flight home to Boston once.
http://www.amazon.com/Off-Rails-Phnom-Penh-Heart/dp/9748303349
I picked up a book called Nature's Metropolis:Chicago and the Great West the other day to read over spring break. I've only been to Chicago once in my life a few years back but there is something about that city that intrigues me.
I have a Sony a3000 which I purchased at Best Buy because I just had gotten my tax return and the money was burning a hole in my pocket and I wanted to walk out of the store with a DSLR. You can find it cheaper on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Interchangeable-Digital-Camera-18-55mm/dp/B00EH5UGR6/
I got the bundle with the 55-210mm zoom lens:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Digital-Camera-18-55mm-55-210mm/dp/B00EZS9JZU/
Battery too. I wouldnt use this even on a laptop
Doesnt seem impossible, though. Theres even a [sub](/r/wallpapergif/) for it