Buffalo and Niagara Falls from Mississauga - Zoomed at 300mm

sargeantcm said:

Well that has to take the cake for being the longest distance Buffalo picture from the ground. Nice. Is Rochester visible from some point on the shore? Say maybe from Brighton or Wellington, ON? Maybe not, just curious.

You said you've seen Toronto fom Buffalo City Hall - have any of those?

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Yes I have.. but i didnt have the best camera then and had left my telephoto lense at home..

Will be back to do it again on the next clear day..

I actually used a spotting scope to figure out where the falls would be, spotted those, and then from there looked west towards where buffalo should be and found one hsbc.. the others were not visible by camera but city hall was barley visible with the spotting scope (30X magnification)

I never thought there would be a day when i would see Buff from Toronto..

Are you positive that's the HSBC building? It just seems to me that the scale is off, considering the considerable further distance between Niagara and Buffalo.

Just sayin, is all. :cheers:

*edit* after looking at a map, it's apparent that, from Mississauga, the Buffalo skyline would be just about behind Niagara Falls, and certainly not that far off to the side. Nice thought though.

algonquin said:

Are you positive that's the HSBC building? It just seems to me that the scale is off, considering the considerable further distance between Niagara and Buffalo.

Just sayin, is all. :cheers:

*edit* after looking at a map, it's apparent that, from Mississauga, the Buffalo skyline would be just about behind Niagara Falls, and certainly not that far off to the side. Nice thought though.

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I tend to agree with this assesment.

algonquin said:

Are you positive that's the HSBC building? It just seems to me that the scale is off, considering the considerable further distance between Niagara and Buffalo.

Just sayin, is all. :cheers:

*edit* after looking at a map, it's apparent that, from Mississauga, the Buffalo skyline would be just about behind Niagara Falls, and certainly not that far off to the side. Nice thought though.

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Think of the actual angle of that picture, I'd believe it. There's probably only about 5° or so between the two cities in that picture.

Toronto_boise said:

Where's NYC?

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Oy vay. Take the distance in that photo between Buffalo and NF, and multiply it by three or four. That distance from the left of NF, and 360 miles in the background.

buckster said:

I'm sure that's the tower at Brock University in St. Catharines, you just wouldn't see Buffalo from that angle, that far over, it's a darker looking building, which means it's closer, and it's to wide to be HSBC, maybe you could see it from higher up.

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I agree.
nice shot WZ1, but until you have concrete proof its HSBC, I think its the Brock University library tower which is located on the Niagara escarpment so it would be possible to see it from the angle the photo was taken from:

WIGS said:

I agree.
nice shot WZ1, but until you have concrete proof its HSBC, I think its the Brock University library tower which is located on the Niagara escarpment so it would be possible to see it from the angle the photo was taken from:

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I have a picture of where St Cats should be as well tho here:




St cats would be at the extreme left of the Niagara Escarpment, in my pic of the falls, there is no escarpment in sight.. where as in St Cats the Escarpment would be right there. I mean you would of course be right, but because of the angle i took the picture from and where i was and the spotting scope im pretty sure im correct.. take a drive around the lake again and look at toronto in relation to things from the top of the garden city skyway... i also may be wrong .. about there escarpment i think i see a tiny bit in the background.. but from my pic above it should be larger if it really is the escarpment.

I don't know, at some angles HSBC can look really wide, while at others it looks thin. I would believe it. That building in St catherines doesn't seem tall enough too see from that far away in those pictures, but idk, ive never seen it in person. Then agian, city hall is almost just as tall as HSBC and I see no signs of it in that picture, so its hard to say.

you can tell by looking at the land, which if you notice there is no land infront of the NF buildings, but the ? tower has what looks like elevated land infront of it, looking at the south shore of the lake from Miss. you find a gradual closing of land coming closer until the Hamilton area...if the library tower is on this slope of land...then I'm 100% sure it's not the HSBC, because HSBC does not hover over the peninsula like we are supposing here.