I made a short trip to Baltimore last weekend. It was my 2nd time in the city, and I didn't venture too far beyond the Inner Harbor. There were a lot of changes compared to my last visit 6 years ago. I saw a lot more skyscrapers this time and a lot of cranes.

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More photos in my Baltimore gallery at :
http://www.globalphotos.org/baltimore.htm
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nice tour...how many city photos have you taken as a whole around the world?

Very nice. :yes: Great pix. :)

The high-rise you keep taking pics of that's under construction is called: "Water Tower Place". A 32 story condo tower.
By 2010/2011, if you come back to take more pix, there will be ALLOT more towers in the skyline. :yes: :D Many very tall ones, too. :)

Thanks, again.

Nice pictures. I like the Inner Harbor area a lot. The surrounding neighborhoods are nice as well.

nice tour...how many city photos have you taken as a whole around the world?

I haven't counted but my first digital camera is still going after about 40k photos, and my present camera has probably logged another 20k so far. On the other hand, I have to do a lot of editing and filtering through the photos, but the % of good ones out of the batch is slowly increasing.

nice pictures.

great photos!!!! the riverfront is really booming!

Nice pictures of a nice city.

very nice pictures!!!

great photos!!!! the riverfront is really booming!

Riverfront?http://209.85.12.232/html/emoticons/blink.gif

Technically, Patapsco riverfront would be an accurate thing to call the inner harbor. Nobody calls it that, of course.

Riverfront?http://209.85.12.232/html/emoticons/blink.gif
Baltimore's Inner Harbor is technically on the Patapsco River...


EDIT: it appears as though some one beat me to the punch by a minute...

b'more sure has done a 180. nice...

YOu picked a nice day to visit. The harbor was packed! nice weather and a few events happening downtown.
:lock:

Technically, Patapsco riverfront would be an accurate thing to call the inner harbor. Nobody calls it that, of course.

To get even more technical, the sealevel portion of the Patapsco isn't really a river anymore but a tidal slightly salty estuary. The river is the deep channel at the bottom of the harbor, drowned by the rise in sealevel about 10,000 years ago. As such it's an extension of the Chesapeake Bay, which is not a bay but is the drowned Susquehana River. Both rivers still exist, but down deep and narrower than the entire estuary. It's that submerged river that provides the deep channel for large ships. Most of the estuary is quite shallow and was once the flat land above the banks of the river. The Chesapeake and its tributaries are the largest estuary in the world, which gives us bragging rights. No big mountains, deep canyons or mighty rivers but at least a huge estuary.

Doesn't the actual Patapsco River run south of Baltimore and empty into the Middle Branch near I-895?

Doesn't the actual Patapsco River run south of Baltimore and empty into the Middle Branch near I-895?

Yes, although by convention the entire upper estuary including the Inner Harbor and parts closer to the Jones Falls is usually referred to as the Patapsco (hence our title as the Queen City of the Patapsco Drainage Basin). The actual "river" isn't really much more than a large stream until it gets to sea level, spreads out and becomes tidal. It's the stream that runs by the old B&O train station in Ellicott City.

Maybe it would help to mention that the Middle Branch, is actually the 'Middle Branch of the Patapsco River,' and thus there are other branches implied--Northwest and South.

One of the profs in my college geography department had a really cool map hanging on the door of their office. It was a color-coded map of stream terminology, differentiating where streams were called creeks stream, wash, run, slough, etc... In the southern part of the Chesapeake they had to call them 'creek as bay,' which I always thought was interesting.

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Very nice pictures.