Feel free to post photos in this thread!

However, there are a few rules I apretiate if you follow:
1. Maximum two images per forumer per day.*
2. No offensive pictures.
3. The photos should have an urban character. That means preferably not pictures of your dog, or your last mountainclimb.
4. The photos must be taken by you.
5. You are encouraged to describe where and when it was taken, but this is not necessary.
6. Apart from this, they can be from anywhere in the world! :)

* This rule has changed from one to two images during the lifetime of the thread.

I'll start. This morning, on my way to work, I had my camera with me. This is at Jernbanetorget("Railwaysquare") outside the centralstation.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/Picture006.jpg

Nice photo and buildings, especially that located in the centre of your picture, but the street lamps are not nice. Those should be replace by more "stylish" lamps.

Thanks jimm :)

Now NorthStar will replace the lamps.
1st from Riga
Cars in Old City. There is high price to be paid to enter the Old City. When leaving the Old City, the ticket is checked once more. Unintentionally this has turned Old City in fine car parking place for rich people.
http://photos.heremy.com/Liepaja/48806429480.jpg

Fabulous idea, my fellow wannabe urban photographer. :) I'd like to comission you and Gatis take more photos of your cities' downtowns!


I took this photo in downtown Helsinki last July. It shows a crowded Alexander's street, one of the main shopping venues in the city. It's also known as our very own little Wall Street, for during lunch hours all you see are stockbrokers from the Helsinki Stock Exchange and people working in insurance companies and banks.

Traffic on the street is limited to taxis and trams. Senate Square with its cathedral is located along this street, which starts from the Mannerheim street, going all the way to the sea near Uspenski church.

Tram number 3 (on which the camera was focused) is the one I use to get to my apartment.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/katukuvia/katukuvaa2.jpg

May in Vilnius :)
http://img45.photobucket.com/albums/v137/Mantaz/IMGP4959.jpg

2nd from Riga
This one is from early spring this year. Agenskalns district in Pardaugava, some 3 km from centre - love this place.
http://photos.heremy.com/Liepaja/48806529480.jpg

A pic taken in Kaunas old town. How many pigeons can you count? ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/blimey_ltu/Kaunas/403b51ab.jpg

Very nice thread! :)
The "downtown" of Vuosaari
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/SdeS0/Helsinki/Vuosaari/tori.jpg

Hurray, this thread is developing just as I wanted it to :banana: Nice photos everyone! Keep it up :okay:

Today's image is taken in Lybekkergata, not far from Brugata tramstop where I wait for the tram every day. This was also taken yesterday, on my way home from work at around 19:30. PS. notice what hides in the reflection ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/Picture013.jpg

Edit: Is those lamps better? ;)

wow, great pics everyone, i especially love oberleutenants pic of that tram and a busy street :), it has a cool beat to it!

tallinn - ehh, a hazy pic. too bad i didnt wait for the tram... but well...i was in middle of a tramway, and well, squishh... ok, pic is of downtown, some cars - unusually quiet! I like those tramoverhead line posts.
http://www.hot.ee/ch1le/proof.jpg

A pic taken in Kaunas old town. How many pigeons can you count? ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/blimey_ltu/Kaunas/403b51ab.jpg
Is it your photo? Cool shot :yes:

Street shot in central part of Vilnius. taken on a rainy and cloudy day in May of this year

http://img82.exs.cx/img82/7306/traffic.jpg

Great shot, now everybody can see that people in Vilnius drive maniacally fast :D

My contribution to this thread - A fountain in the Interlaken Ost station, June 2004 (On my trip to Switzerland)
(I hope it is urban enough :) )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/v4idas/UPC/interlaken.jpg

Is it your photo? Cool shot :yes:

Yup its mine.
Thanks :)

I hope it is urban enough :)

Ofcourse!:)

Very cool photo, John! :yes:

http://w1.875.telia.com/~u87519938/200405290047b.JPG
May in some smalltown in Småland (south-eastern .se). That one building really stands out as a real urban one, the rest are pretty much your usual mid-late 20th century smalltown stuff.

Very cool photo, John! :yes:

thanks! I'll post more for sure :)

Oberleutnant, thats a great HKI shot:)
Its the sort of photo I love the most.

There is over midnight and tomorrow I would be heavy working in Liepaja, away from net. Thus I will post now.
Riga, Kalku Street. Street musicians trying to get some attention. Now I see that pictures are a bit too small :(
http://photos.heremy.com/Liepaja/48805729480.jpg

Nice stuff guys and thanks for the comments. :happy:

I took this picture last evening near Hotel Torni, the only high-rise building in downtown Helsinki. One of my favourite streets, Bulevardi (boulevard), goes horizontally across this picture where that building under renovation is. Notice the sign of a Russian restaurant on the left.

Helsinki wasn't designed for cars and this shows whenever you look at the sides of the streets! Then again, I wouldn't want to have huge parking lots in the downtown either. Underground parking halls are probably the answer, but there ain't enough of them!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/torninlahella.jpg

WOW ! Nice photo, Ober ! :okay:

yeah it reminds me a little of Paris during early spring time

Kaunas main pedestrian street. Rainy mid July

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v365/liutass/Kaunas/vaizdas4.jpg

I also took this picture on tuesday morning. This shows our main pedestrian street Karl Johan at 8 AM, one hour before the shops open. This street is full of beggars and drug addicts, and so tacky imo...to bad this is what we show the tourists..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/Picture002.jpg

Nice thread NS:okay:

Here's my first contribution. Taken in May 2001 with a very cheap point and shoot film camera, through the windows of the south tower's observation floor (102nd floor):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/urbanphotocontest/wtc7.jpg

Lintulahti residential towers near the Merihaka
http://img74.exs.cx/img74/2214/Lintulahti.jpg

great pics here once again! ok, my entry for today, nothing too urban about it, just skyline...taken near harbour, from a night club terrace
http://www.hot.ee/ch1le/panoraam.jpg

The Tallinn skyline looks very cool at night! Great photo ch1le! :)

thanx sdes! your photo was excellente!

Tampella area under construction.

http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/tampere/urban1.jpg

Vokieciu Gatve/Germans' Street [not sure if that's urban enough]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/blimey_ltu/misc/148_4848.jpg

Thanks again, Blimey. Of course it's urban as the photos is made in a city ;)

Strasbourg train station (there are some moving cars in it :D )

http://premium.uploadit.org/Aviller71/StrasNiteTrain2.jpg

@blimey

that's a good shot, but the street itself sucks, I hate it, they better start rebuilding the lost quartals.

@blimey

that's a good shot, but the street itself sucks, I hate it (...)
You should die :bash:

Traffic shot again, love watching and photographing traffic :)

In Vilnius, near the Parliament building (Seimas) and construction site of "Vilnius gate", on the other end of the tunnell seen in the pic is Business Triangle (you can see Victoria tower construction and a small part of BCC)
http://img81.exs.cx/img81/7488/urbantraffic.jpg

You should die :bash:

you should be shot for such attitude to our old town! :guns1:

you should be shot for such attitude to our old town! :guns1:
You should be squeezed and stabbed and then hanged downwards for destroying open areas and building kitch! You're even worse than AMB! :bash: :bash:

@blimey

that's a good shot, but the street itself sucks, I hate it, they better start rebuilding the lost quartals.

Agreed.

@Mantaz: there's plenty of "open areas" outside the old town.
Old Town should be rebuilt as much as possible imho.

That's what I mean, this "open area" formed thanks to fucking commies who were preparing land for a new 4 lane street in there just after WW2, the plans were abandoned and now we've got that shitty "open area", it looks awful.
But that's ok, this thread is about urban photos :)

Well, Vokieciu gatve is good, IMO. It just needs some restoration and would become a great street in Vilnius. Building houses would leave just a narrow and possibly uninteresting street :|

I'm sure Mantaz is a secret commie agent who like a commie street, so let's burn him alive!!!!!!!!
Or. John is right. He should be shot.

I'm sure Mantaz is a secret commie agent who like a commie street, so let's burn him alive!!!!!!!!
Or. John is right. He should be shot.
Commie street with a single commie? well... Pilies street is also a commie street then :|

Commie street with a single commie? well... Pilies street is also a commie street then :|
r you kiddin me? remember all those stalinist blocks?

r you kiddin me? remember all those stalinist blocks?
I was talking about the commieblock, the only at the corner. Maybe others were built mostly during the stalinist period, but only buildings at the right side going from the townhall are "noticible". However, rebuilding the houses in that street won't tear those commie buildings down and will become a half stalinist and a half kitch street. Is it good? I don't think so, better restore it as an open area. Oldtown charm isn't all about the buildings anyway :|

I was talking about the commieblock, the only at the corner. Maybe others were built mostly during the stalinist period, but only buildings at the right side going from the townhall are "noticible". However, rebuilding the houses in that street won't tear those commie buildings down and will become a half stalinist and a half kitch street. Is it good? I don't think so, better restore it as an open area. Oldtown charm isn't all about the buildings anyway :|
So I see John and I we were right. *PAAAFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!* ;)

So I see John and I we were right. *PAAAFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!* ;)
You missed! Ha! :bleh:

Enough, people! This is matters you can discuss in another thread.

Thank you all for new photos! Especially thanks to mlm to bring a photo all the way from what is probably the coolest city in the world (don't tell this to nick-taylor, lol)

I think Mantaz has some photos of the coolest city in the world (at least the coolest city in the States ;)), and it's not gonna be NYC ;)

Sure I have. Here's one :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Mantazzz/SF01/0169.jpg

Yes, that's THE place I wish to see in USA the most :bow:

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Seconded that.
My dream city

my dream city is Tokyo

^^^
Tokyo would be on my top-10, however my "dram" places are HK and Shanghai :bow:

Nice pics (ch1le, Tallinn's night skyline is great!)

Urban moments from Helsinki

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/threadpic.jpg

First part - top of Hotel Torni, August 2003. I took it during the Helsinki meet-up with Jonas (John), Nicke (Designwise) and Jukka (darkmage).

Middle row - Alexander's street, July 2004. The one on the right - Mannerheim's street, April 2004.

Below - July 2003, near the central railway station.



PS

I couldn't imagine myself living in a city like Hong Kong or Shanghai. Also, while those places might look cool with their 'scrapers, ordinary folk there aren't that lucky. It's all just exterior and superficial beauty.

(then again I haven't been to those cities, either :))

The view through my window 10 minutes ago: :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/v4idas/UPC/view.jpg

Urban moments from Helsinki
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/threadpic.jpg


Goddamn...I totally forgot that the official Devilution fan club had a meeting up there. ;) Those cute little girls sure must´ve been disappointed. :laugh:

My god, the pix suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!
















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j/k

Hehe, I see you left some of "Finns looking left" out of the picture, Toni;)

I've now began to take the camera with me everywhere I go. This is from yesterday morning. You may recognize the building in the background.;) This is taken at the eastern entrance of the centralstation, where the pedestrianbridges from Oslo City and the bus terminal meets. You see the latter one in the image. You may see the beggar that sits there. It's his regular spot, he always sits there, summer and winter. Although relatively few people give to beggars, I bet he makes a pretty nice income, as this pedestrian bridge is used by 100.000 people a day.

Also thanks to Toni(Oberleutenant) for helping me with the photo.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/test.jpg

toni, your photos are great... wow, from that pic, hotel torni seems sooooo high!!!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/blimey_ltu/misc/147_4773.jpg

You can see three Skylines in here: Old Skyline, New Skyline and Commie Skyline.

[The quality is far from perfect, i know.]

Look from the transparent elevator of Hotel Latvia, moving at the heigh of around 24th floor.
In the middle of August for some days in Riga Orthodox Cathedral arrived one of the most unique and sacred monuments of art - Icon of Tichvin. Many thousands of people stood in queue to see it night and day. Legend says that this artwork is made by one of apostles 2000 years ago.
http://photos.heremy.com/Liepaja/48806729480.jpg
see more info http://neepeople.squarespace.com/journeymanjames/2004/02/25/wonders-abound.html

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/blimey_ltu/misc/147_4773.jpg

You can see three Skylines in here: Old Skyline, New Skyline and Commie Skyline.

[The quality is far from perfect, i know.]
Wow :eek: I have never really saw a pic taken from the bastion. Wow, it's amazing :uh:

^^^
yeah this pic is really good, perhaps the best photo from this place so far :okay:

Took a image from Nedre Elvehavn in Trondheim on monday, here it is.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Trondheim%20city%20archive/Imgee_0017smal.jpg

Or perhaps this one is better.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Trondheim%20city%20archive/Imgee_0016.jpg

Sadly both sucks.

This is my city: Blumenau, Brazil

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/boomtfc/Blumenau/DSC01577.jpg

:)

looks alot like vilnius with that river! cool

http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/tampere/urban2.jpg

Here's a pic I took less than a week ago. The building is called Amurinlinna (Amuri's castle). 48meters, 14 floors, was the tallest residential building in Finland 1955 when it was built!

Thank you all. :)




Urban old Tallinn


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/episode3/oldtown14.jpg




PS.

I've wondered what Amurinlinna looked like, thx!

UPC UPC UPC that OL!

ol... that pic is wonderful, which reminds me... where the heck is tallinn thread no3! :nono: :)

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:master::master::master:

I think I'll need to go to bathroom....:D

You guys flatter me too much. :)

What's the matter?
Don't you like an honest opinion?:D

My objects is perhaps becoming somewhat repetetive, lol. Oh well, here's another one with Radisson SAS Plaza and Posthuset in the background. This was taken on wednesday afternoon.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/Picture028.jpg

Looked in after longer time - too much work...
This thread is fine - we even got representation from Brasil :)
To contrast with panorama pictures here something inside building:
Riga history museum, May. Some actors that day were walking around in the museum, doing different things with museum artefacts.
http://photos.heremy.com/Liepaja/48805429480.jpg

http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/tampere/new/Im002340.jpg

An evening view from Lapinniemi-area in Tampere! Taken like 3 hours ago or something :)

Finnish commieblocks! :okay:

Yeah, awesome density by our standard :happy:

Today I have chosen to move focus alittle, and revive a photo from my Frogner thread. So this is from Frogner in Oslo this april.
http://www.pbase.com/northstar77/image/28040175/original.jpg

Nice picture! :) Too bad it will look like that soon again when the leaves fall and that damn winter takes over :(

Here's one more from Tampere I took last week actually from the window of my car waiting for the lights to turn green ;). I think this picture looks kinda depressing, but definitely some urban elements here :)
http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/tampere/new/Kuva%20062.jpg

I really, really love this thread. (: (sorry Jarmo if I broke your copyright)


Perhaps a bit boring shot, but it's a building we haven't ever seen here: One of the many Radisson SAS hotels in Helsinki.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/radisson_prog.jpg

Construction site of Kamppi project is reflected on its facade.

Great shots again guys! :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v408/cloudsketchers/temporary/simo/9-mcjadhl.jpg
McDonalds Finland HQ and DHL in Pikku-Huopalahti

Well, i've taken some more images durning the ages i've had a camera... :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Trondheim%20city%20archive/TyholttarnetPanorama1.jpg
This is one of my bas panoramas. I took 4 images, 3 of them was good, but the last ont did mot fit exactly with the tower, so it looks like its about to fall down.

Took another one, but it became even worse...:cry:

It looks its a lot of wind in this image though...:)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Trondheim%20city%20archive/TyholttarnetPanorama2.jpg
My images always suchs.... :)

@ Christian: what are you using for your panorama stiching?
When I do it with PhotoShop, the program usually rotates the pictures itself if it is necessary :|

@ Christian: what are you using for your panorama stiching?
When I do it with PhotoShop, the program usually rotates the pictures itself if it is necessary :|

I use Ulead COOL 360, but i rotate the images in Photoshop, and then the program make most of the job for me. I don't know so much about making panoramas in Photoshop yeat. :)

A funny bend on Tyholttårnet, hehe:)

But Christian, remember: only one image per day;)

About half a kilometer from my apartment... A view that hasn't changed since the 1970s, modern architecture fused together with early 20th century architecture in harmony -- or not! :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/hakaniemeen_prog.jpg

:weirdo:

yes, I too love the commieblock

Pic taken from Gediminas' grave hill
http://img45.photobucket.com/albums/v137/Mantaz/IMGP4854.jpg

Pano from the top of the Eiffel Tower (sorry for the bad quality)

http://premium.uploadit.org/Aviller71/ParisPanoNum2small.jpg

Bad quality????:crazy: Perhaps by your standards...;)

Today's image is a response to yesterdays photo by Oberleutenant. If you like buildings from different eras right next to eachother, clearly Oslo is the place for you:D

Like this photo I took last week demonstrates. It shows the same buildings as in my first photo in this thread, only from a different angle. Here we have from the left; shoppingcentre from the 80'ies(barely visible at the edge of the photo), hotell from the 50'ies, offices from 2000, 60'ies(guess), and 19'th century(guess).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/Picture023.jpg

But Christian, remember: only one image per day;)

Obs....sorry...;)

No problem mate :cheers1:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v191/blimey_ltu/misc/148_4880.jpg

Another nice one, blimey! :okay: Now would you care to tell us where you shot it? :)

Thanks, WH :)
That's in Kaunas old town. In the end of the street there's this \/ monastery which, unfortunately, is covered with threes :mad::

http://www.kaunas.lt/miestas_/fotoalbumas/baznycios/did/trejybes.jpg

One day i'm gonna cut those trees off, i promise.

Today it is time to show some of the bad aspect of an urban enviroment, and also to moan about the fact that winter is around the corner. I took this sometime during last winter, when the smog in Oslo was at its worst. You see, every winter, we get a few weeks where the air pollution is as bad as in Mexico City and Cairo. That occurs when we have had a dry, cold period with little wind. Oslo lies in a pot, so in those weather condtition, the polluted air don't get a chance to escape, hence it lies as a brown lid over the city. Part of the reason it gets so polluted is also because of the iron-knots that is common here on wheels on cars in the winter.

To the right is Posthuset. We also see what is awarded the ugliest building in town, Galleriet, that long one on the left, spanning over a motorway brigde. All in all a pretty grim picture.

And, sorry about the bad quality:D
http://www.pbase.com/northstar77/image/26560332.jpg

I promised myself that I wouldn't post pictures of well-known Hki buildings in this thread, but I'm going to break that promise.

View toward Post Building (1930s) and Railway station tower, taken this evening.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/aurinkoalhaalla.jpg

This is from Göteborg this summer. I was surpised to see people drinking from that fountain. But the water was really cold and fresh :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/goeteborg/Picture_049.jpg

where have all, the new posts gone?...

http://members.lycos.nl/designwise/Dsc00115.jpg

Johan Ludvig Runeberg Esplanade (Helsinki) on a summer evening.

Merihaka residential buildings
http://img76.exs.cx/img76/8162/Density.jpg

Kiasma, museum of contemporary art - from today's photo trip with sdes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/kiasma4.jpg


EDIT:

Replaced my picture for today with this panorama (it's my first, rather poor attempt at making a panorama) of Katajannokka and Kruununhaka areas of Helsinki. They show a rather unkown part of the city's waterfront.


Thanks to sdes who hosted this pic and who let me use his mini-tripod.


http://www.sukkula.net/ssc/tama.jpg

Those who don't like wires in photos, don't look here. :)


Spires of Johannes Church in Helsinki peaking out above the roofs last week.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/wires.jpg


C'mon guys, post your pics!

Don't have any good pics at the moment :/.. perhaps I'll go and buy some stuff from a gas station and take an urban picture from that trip (as soon as I can think of a place to shoot...) :D

i only god bad pics, this one isnt too urban as well... its the view next to my commie...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v370/ch1le/lasna4.jpg

sorry for the tilt... held the cam on a rock... :bash:

@ ch1le: try the Rotate function - it's pretty useful ;)

For my contribution - today's shot of the Pilies street and a little teaser of my phototour that is coming later this evening ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/v4idas/Senamiestis/PICT5000.jpg

http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/tampere/new/urban4.jpg
Okay this one I took about an hour ago. One word: GREY! I hate this type of weather, so depressing :(.

By the way, about 20meters behind the place where I took this picture is the spot for the 24-storey Radisson SAS hotel :)

EDIT: I forgot again... NorthStar77 your last photo submitted here is really cool, i like it, and i like the "ugly" building also! :)

ch1le, are those residentials from late 1980s?

grendy, that pic is "urban realism" I suppose. :) Gotta admit that it's not a pic I would, however, use to advertise others what a wonderful city Tampere (it's a great place) really is!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Trondheim%20city%20archive/Imgm_0013.jpg
Porthuset facade in Nedre Elvehavn, Trondheim. :)

@Ober

Yeah I agree. I hope they never hire me as a tourism promoter :D. But that is a "real" picture. I kinda like "depressing" pictures, they usually have something beautiful to be found :). And urban things can sometimes be depressing. The most urban picture i can IMAGINE, would be something like shot in NYC or a similar city, it would have a begger/homeless guy in it, some fog/steam, red brick walls and perhaps an elevated traintrack or something like that. :D.. yeah tell me how many movies is that scene in :D

ober yes, they are from 1980-87s i pressume.

:lol:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/threadpic.jpg

Great thread BTW! I'll have to check in on this one more often!! :)

Again a picture of Radisson SAS Plaza taken from Storgata(wich isn't as grand as it sounds). In front is some weird sort of antique shop. I took this a few days after starting this thread.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/Picture031.jpg

http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/tampere/new/urban5.jpg
Autumn is on it's way. Some interesting facts about the 9 buildings in the picture (all are not showing). Built in the early 50's, 9-10 floors + attic=11-12floors. There are 11km of steelconcrete-piles in the foundations of the buildings, and the walls contain about 9 million bricks, interesting isn't it?? :D

Southern Helsinki photographed from a moving car a while ago. The church with the sharp spire is the Agricola Church.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/south_hki.jpg


@ G-Man

I like your gritty style. :D

G-Man whowhatwhere? :D

This is from Olaf Ryes plass at Grünerløkka, late April or early May. People enjoying the sun that has just started to feel warm again, and a cold beer.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/grunerlokka/P1010052.jpg

Wow, this is really a great thread!! :okay:
Lots of great urban photos. Keep'em comming everyone! :)
Here's a contribution with a nice urban density. Looking north from the South Harbour in CPH:
http://tournesol.members.easyspace.com/city_fra_sydhavnen.jpg

@ G

Continue that style, please. :)


@ Arvid

I'm missing the summer already!



@ tourne

I missed your Copenhagen pics! :)




Rooftops of Helsinki from the 12th floor of Hotel Torni. The red tower belongs to an old fire station.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/autumn.jpg

I took this yesterday. I wasn't really satisfied with it. I took two others that showed the entire Radisson Plaza, but that sort of took the focus away from the divers. It could have been so much better if I only had jumped over a fence and down to a plateu below, but at 8 in the morning...I think not.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/plaza001.jpg

Bloody good image Northstar If the topp of Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel would show, and the image would be a bit lighten up, perhaps some more bright colors it would de very good at Urban Photo Contest. :) But its a very good image already. :)

This is almost like cheating, but here is the others, with the entire Plaza.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/plaza003.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/plaza002.jpg

They are all unedited, except rotate and scaling.

I like this pic the most you posted here! It doesn't matter at all if the entire building isn't in the picture. You can see how tall it is (like we wouldn't know it :) ) from the other upper corner already. Posthuset is is like a *must* in the picture :)

From one of my favourite Finnish cities... A summery picture from July 2003

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/manse/tamperehotel.jpg

I'll let you all guess where it is from :D ;)

Tampere? :)

@Northstar. I love those divers. Cool idea! :okay:

To be honest, the idea to take a photo of Radisson Plaza from that angle was not my idea, but the idea of a drug-addict. It was used in a campaign a few years ago to tell people that drug addicts are people too. Under the photo it said something like "This is what happens when you give a camera to a drug-addict".
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Today's photo is from my Grønland thread. It was one of the first photos from that thread, taken in mid february. I guess this is another prime example of the variation in architecture in Oslo, for good and bad.
http://www.pbase.com/northstar77/image/26248114.jpg

@Ober

That "mystery" picture of your kinda revealed itself if you're smart enough to check the filename ;). I wouldn't have guessed it otherwise :D

Today's photo: Terminal 3 at Kastrup Airport at night.
Notice that you can se right down to the tracks of the underground trainstation...
http://img106.exs.cx/img106/5695/j2okastrupnat.jpg

Running low on pictures again ;).. This one I took a few weeks ago. Tampere Cathedral or Tuomiokirkko as we know it. Oh man I want a new camera :(


http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/tampere/new/urban6.jpg

Arvid knows what I think about his photo already. :)

Tourne, I'm again so happy to see you participate this thread. (yes, that was from Tampere)

Grendy, now that's more tourist brochure worthy! Let's just slightly increase the propaganda-o-meter, and these foreign devils will believe that all what Tampere has are beautiful buildings and a stunning high-rise hotel.



From the city center of Kouvola, a small town in Eastern Finland with a population of 30,000 inhabitants:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/hansataas.jpg

"Hansa" tower, a mixed office / residential building.

Considering the fact that the town really has only 30,000 inhabitants, but five high-rises in its city centre (yes, five!) that's quite an achivement.


(sorry Arvid, I hope this is ok)
One of the new residentials near the market square: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/asuintalo.jpg
The wide 1960s building belongs to the municipality and the province, while those two towers (there's actually three of them) are apartment blocks: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/kouvolacb.jpg

Hotel Torni
http://img30.exs.cx/img30/2495/Torni.jpg

sorry Arvid, I hope this is ok

But ofcourse, I already did the same;)

Once again I'm digging in my archives. Frognerparken this spring.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/frognerparken/P1010116.jpg

CPH seen from the motorway:
http://img106.exs.cx/img106/9568/i4zoresundsmotorvej.jpg

Keilaniemi as seen from Vuosaari earthfill, 25km away.
http://img59.exs.cx/img59/7966/VKeilaniemi.jpg
Kone building, Fortum and Meilahti hospital look quite good together. Maybe even a small skyline :)

cool. fortum looks tall!

Thanks! :)
I didn't know that you can see Keilaniemi so clear from ~25km away.

You need to try taking the same shot in the evening. :)

How does Itäkeskus look like from that earthfill?

Ok, I didn't post anything for a long time, so here's one, taken today in Vilnius of course :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/johngang/bw.jpg

Finnish National Opera building as seen from Pitkäsilta bridge. Meilahti hospital is behind.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/ooppera.jpg

Construction cranes in Kamppi, Helsinki.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/kamppi.jpg

See the related development thread for more info about the Kamppi project. :)

A view towards the ortodox churh (still on a cloudy/rainy day).
http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/tampere/new/urban8.jpg

Ober asked me if I could post this photo, so here it goes:
http://img87.exs.cx/img87/5017/Sea1.jpg
"Tropical Helsinki" :)

Tropical Helsinki? Maybe more like tropical Kamchiatka ;) :D (j/k ;))

Taken on early march
http://members.lycos.nl/maantas/IMGP2522.JPG

have i posted this anywhere? i guess so, but its the noise redused version!
the Tallinn skyline from the harbour, ohh, cant wait till twins pop up!
http://www.hot.ee/ch1le/panoraam_filtered.jpg

Yep, you have posted it here before.
But still very good photo! :)

dohh, hoped i hadnt posted it in THIS threat, but damn, there it is on page 2 :( :doh: sry guys!!!

Itämerentori/Ruoholahti area from a rarely seen angle:



http://img81.exs.cx/img81/3657/IMTR.jpg

Many beautiful images there....:) The black and white image you took yesterday John was a extremly beautiful image....:)

A new bad image i've taken.....:|

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Trondheim%20city%20archive/Imgm_0003.jpg

i don't think so, pretty nice.

Hello, koskaar. :) I've noticed you around, thanks for sharing that picture with us. HTC buildings and Itämerentori show really well from Lauttasaari.

Here's my first contribution to a great thread. Sorry that it's not from the S&B region. I'll remove it if I receive any complaints....

Denver skyline at sunrise:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/DenverDane/Denver/Img_0012-DenverSunrise.jpg

Hello, koskaar. :) I've noticed you around, thanks for sharing that picture with us. HTC buildings and Itämerentori show really well from Lauttasaari.

Thanks, OL. That pic is actually taken from a boat near Lauttasaari, as I couldn't find a decent spot from Lauttasaari to capture HTC and Itämerentori in the same picture.

^
Roger that.

They've done something to my Photobucket account, none of my pictures are working and I'm unable to log in.

^
Roger that.

They've done something to my Photobucket account, none of my pictures are working and I'm unable to log in.

Yeah, ditto... Yesterday they said they had network problems... Today it seems it's more than just that.... :(

Ooh, thanks for that post, DD. I was fearing they had deleted my account.

Looks like yours isn't working either.

Photobucket seems to be working again! :)

Another shot of Denver. This time at night from Lookout Mountain:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/DenverDane/Denver/Img_0027-DenverNightLookoutMountain.jpg

photobucket is the mainstay and lifeline of our forum ... may they be stable & healthy for a long time to come! :)

And thank you, gents, for all your great photos! :okay: I do check in here every once in a while. ;)

Nice thread with very beautiful photos. I'll also add my first photo to this thread (it's taken today in Vilnius):
http://img17.exs.cx/img17/5703/IMG_7111.jpg

Already on page 7! Man, you guys RAWK!
/and the photos ain't exactly bad either. :)

Time for a never-before-seen angle of KST:
http://w1.875.telia.com/~u87519939/20040922/2004092207.JPG

And a couple o' shots of the main Kista bus station (lying beneeth the subway station). Concrete at it's finest...
http://w1.875.telia.com/~u87519939/20040922/2004092203.JPG
...or not. :)
http://w1.875.telia.com/~u87519939/20040922/2004092204.JPG

nice swede, keep em comin' ..

post some more concrete .. and of kista and it's sorroundings would be nice :)

Ugly looking part of Kallio district

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/kallio.jpg

you call that ugly? hah!

The area around Hakaniemi market square is the ugliest part of Kallio by far. It wins every single one of our suburbs any day, though. :)

The area around Hakaniemi market square is the ugliest part of Kallio by far. It wins every single one of our suburbs any day, though. :)
It's not ugly.
The other thing you said, depends on what kind of architecture do you like. Some people might say that the Herttoniemenranta looks better than the area you mentioned. ;)
But let's not start to compare things. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/SdeS0/Helsinki/Vuosaari/new/plasit.jpg
Residential building in Vuosaari

Indeed, let's not do that! I walk past that place every time in Kallio and all those 1970s buildings and concrete structures near Merihaka (none of them are visible in the pic) really ruin the place when you think what it could've been without the 1970s period of tearing down old buildings.

Is that residential in Aurinkolahti?

Yes it is. :)
The concrete building next to Merihaka is very ugly indeed (do you have pics of it?). But Ympyrätalo in examble is quite nice.

No, I (fortunately?) don't. :)

Here's almost a year old photo that has never been published:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/nightinhell.jpg

Very cool night photo Toni! :)

http://img31.exs.cx/img31/8628/Kuu.jpg
Urban moon

wowowow sdes that is awesome!

Methinks it's worth putting in UPC :)

seconded /\

Thanks guys. :)
I'm not sure if it's good enough for the UPC. :/

I think it is! Go for it, Sdes!!!

Well, your photo sure isn't another blah __________ (insert name of major metropolis) skyline at dusk, sdes! ;) I also say go for it! :)

I didn't originally intend this picture to form a "story" such as this one, but after uploading the contents of my memory card ot my pc, I thought it would be more interesting this way. From Töölö district where my "school" is, last Thursday:


http://img6.exs.cx/img6/7254/tooloa.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v421/Ringil/S3000013.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v421/Ringil/S3000006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v421/Ringil/S3000007.jpg

Nice pictures Ober and Ringil. :)

@Ringil
Only one image per forumer per day. ;)

Urban lanscape in Hungary:D Just a reminder on what to come.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/Picture023.jpg

You really came up with a great idea for a thread here, NorthStar, and it has been growing so fast! :cool:

I am looking forward to your Budapest photos ... :) Btw, I think you could start a "Guess the City" thread with this picture. ;)

lol, I already did:D

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=140003

Thanks for the compliments on the thread, but it wouldn't have been so nice without the photos from all that has contributed so far :)

Yea, NorthStar! :) I took a look at that thread ... was quite impressed that it was the Asian mod baqthier came up with the correct answer. Unlike others, he obviously knows more about the world than just the cities in his own back yard. :okay:

I'm quite aware, of course, that not only you but also many others of our fine photographer fellow forumers contributed to this thread. :)

Thanks, guys! :grouphug:

Bright colours of autumn.

http://img16.exs.cx/img16/4770/brightcolors.jpg

@OL: Great picture! :okay:

This is almost at the same place as one of my first images here, taken earlier this autumn.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/oslo/Picture032.jpg

biskop gunners gate looks niiice on that pic

A Very nice image Northstar, Posthuset looks very beautiful in that image...:)

http://img13.exs.cx/img13/9948/mies.jpg
Man doing his job in Vuosaari, the building is 12-storey Lucia.

Thanks guys. :)
I'm not sure if it's good enough for the UPC. :/

Go for it mate! The pic´s brilliant! At least great wallpaper-material for any desktop.

Actually I put it in the last weeks UPC (in friday), but it didn't get enough votes, because the voting ended in Saturday (if I remember correct).
:)

Took a image of our my nabourhood this morning...so i guess ill just post it here...;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Weather/Imgqo_0006.jpg
Foggy and bad image...:|

Not bad at all.
The fog makes the image look even better, it looks somehow mysterious. :)

Thanks!

Christian, that's not a bad image. (And the fog is important elment, too)


The additional building of the Finnish parliament as seen through Kiasma

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/eduskunta.jpg

awesome pic, ober !

Once again I steal from my Frogner thread. I believe it is from late march/early april, from the shopping street Bogstadveien, wich is the main street for fashion.
http://www.pbase.com/image/27483050.jpg

First pic for me in this thread! :)

The Lipstick-building rising behind the harbor in Göteborg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/astro_miffo/Bilder/lillabommen1.jpg

@ DW
tänks


Sanomatalo, Hki

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/SANOMATALO.jpg

A picture form Sunday trip (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=141757)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/v4idas/Senamiestis/PICT5173.jpg

Looking up the Lipstick, Göteborg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/astro_miffo/Bilder/lillabommen3.jpg

This is not a very good picture, but it is taken from a bus in motion. I call it "The beauty and the beast", you decide wich is who :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/E18/P1010118.jpg

I can't get tired of that building! :)

This looks so much like Riga!!! I can't believe it is not!!

http://img84.exs.cx/img84/1149/oslorigalike.jpg

Cool, but does Riga have trams?

(Oh, thanks to Vaidas as well for his comment :))


Finnish Parliament building, photo taken this evening. I used my backpack and stairs for stabilizing the camera, so please excuse the angle.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/eduskunta1.jpg

@OL: JÄTKÄ OSAA OIKEESTI OTTAA KUVII!

ehrm...Yes, I was just commenting on OL's pic, which is very nice.

@Ober: WOW!

@ober
It's almost unbelievable how that ugly building can look so good on your picture!

Great pic Ober :)
Eduskuntatalo looks very nice in that photo.

http://img37.exs.cx/img37/1299/Sato1.jpg
Sato HQ in Käpylä, Helsinki
I took this photo, when I was on my way to home from the cirrus meeting. Didn't had a tripod with me.

Didn't had a tripod with me.
In that case you have a very steady hand. Nice and sharp! :okay:

Here's a nightshot from the Copenhagen north harbour.
The newly build PSG Tower to the left.
http://img33.exs.cx/img33/7335/x3isdrfrihavn.jpg

Typical streetshot from Grünerløkka. From this spring.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/lokka2/P1010032.jpg

from yesterday, Carlton in Cannes :)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v421/Ringil/cannes15oktober10.jpg

Ööh . . . kiitos. :)


Nice stuff, guys. Here's something from yesterday's trip. A lamp in Tallin's Old Town:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/oberleutnant/lamppu.jpg

looking down the eiffel tower,the mars fields. From may this year
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v421/Ringil/pariseiffel.jpg

Cool pic Ringil!

Kupolen, the shopping-mall and indoor-arena here in Borlänge:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/astro_miffo/Bilder/kupolen.jpg

Commie in western CPH
http://img33.exs.cx/img33/1310/x1sstorehus.jpg

View from my new apartment. Didn't had a tripod with me.
http://img91.exs.cx/img91/9683/View.jpg

http://img91.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img91&image=View2.jpg
Zoomed view, that bloody pinewood (and the white building) is blocking my view to sea :D

Nice! :)



Billboard ad in Tallinn

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v408/cloudsketchers/temporary/tln/mainos.jpg

that house, what u showed there Ol, sucks, that should go under renovation ASAP. Just see on what street it is!, on the subject i must say that that shot is great, very urban :yes:

Again I'm digging in the archives. This was one of the first images I posted on this forum. Taken around christmas last year, at Youngstorget(marketplace). This is where most demos are held, important speaches is done etc. In front, you see what was probably the first highrise in Oslo, Folketeaterbygningen from 1935. You also the the HQ of the progress party. And in the background....well...;)
http://www.pbase.com/northstar77/image/24172955.jpg

http://img95.exs.cx/img95/7885/Playground.jpg
Kids playground in Vuosaari, as you can see the weather was terrible. :)

Please, post more pictures! :)

Arvid, should you change the rules so that maximum number of pics per day could be two instead of one? It could be done so that there still would have to be few hours between posting the pictures.

View to rarely seen western parts of Tallinn from the Old Town walls

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v408/cloudsketchers/temporary/tln/trees.jpg

You can see the railway tracks leading to the station - which according to Jarmo "isn't much to see". Despite the neglected look of the area, it looked interesting from far away. *wants to check it out someday*

awright, I'll change the rulez to maximum two pictures per day:okay: It won't matter if the two are in one, or in separate posts. And since I am the dictator of this thread, I'll be the first to take advantage of this new rule:D

The best club in Oslo imo, Blå (means blue), and one of the most important clubs in Europe for new experimental music that crosses genres like jazz/house/funk etc. The reason for me posting this today, is that I'll be there later today, at a concert with norwegian Tom Hell.

The entrance is around the corner.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/akerselva/P1010035.jpg

Very nearby
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/akerselva/P1010024.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/SdeS0/Helsinki/Vuosaari/Lokakuu/LuciaView.jpg
Photo from a todays meet-up with Ober, view from the 11th (12th) floor of Lucia residential in Vuosaari.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/SdeS0/Helsinki/Vuosaari/Lokakuu/Lintulahtiup.jpg
Residential tower in Lintulahti, next to Kallio.

Sad case of vandalism. This Lenin statue was standing in centre of Bauska town... but the times changed and it was dragged some 5 km out of centrum. And left in hands of local vandals...
http://img40.exs.cx/img40/1862/Lenins.jpg

rrr...why the hell is it still standing? should have been torn down like the rest...

It is torn down... but not divided in pieces like the rest. Sad...

Here's another shitty panorama image brought to you by Sucky Panoramas Inc

http://img23.exs.cx/img23/5854/panoraama2.jpg

From left to right: rescue station tower, railway station tower, Johannes Church, Stockmann department store sign and Hotel Torni. (yup, replaced my earlier pic with this one)

Simmer down kids.

Helsinki looks like an awesome city. I have to visit it someday.

Anybody wanna guess where this is?

http://premium.uploadit.org/Aviller71/botanique1.jpg

Berlin?

No, but the first letter's right.

Brussels?

btw. Very good photo!

Brussels?

btw. Very good photo!

Thanks (and you're right BTW).

I agree with darkmage too!

the botanical garden of Brussels ;)

the botanical garden of Brussels ;)

Vous etes too late (trop tard?).

Oui, c'est possible ;)

New day, new pic (Brussels again)

http://premium.uploadit.org/Aviller71/stemarie2.jpg

btw, I repost another one of me from the UPC
http://mapage.noos.fr/lesarchives/MISC2/IMG_8369.jpg

It may be messy as hell, but atleast it's urban..:D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/Budapest/Picture095.jpg