February 26, 200817 yr ^what's that colour called again? Fern or Grass Green. That colour is not in any Clevelander's vocabulary this time of year.
February 26, 200817 yr I went for a walk in the neighborhood this morning: Two weeks ago you could have had Noah's arc out there, now all you need is a igloo and dog sled team to complete this picture. Your block definitely gets some drastic weather changes! :wink:
February 26, 200817 yr A beautiful sunset a few nights ago.. That's a pretty splendid view. Yeah.. I love where I live. We get sunsets like that almost every night but I liked how the snow looked.. That is basically the view I get if I sleep on my right side. :-) Your picture is pretty amazing and I was thinking exactly what MTS was thinking.. you get some pretty varied weather conditions haha.
February 26, 200817 yr Yeah.. I love where I live. We get sunsets like that almost every night but I liked how the snow looked.. That is basically the view I get if I sleep on my right side. :-) Your picture is pretty amazing and I was thinking exactly what MTS was thinking.. you get some pretty varied weather conditions haha. Its a lovely picture but it, coupled, with Robs blizzard photo, make me want to head straight to the Caribbean this weekend!
March 3, 200817 yr Flying into Chicago Midway last spring: Nice! I love Chicago! I hate those freeway signs though, the ones that say "western suburbs", kinda assumes people are thinking "where do I go to get away from this urban madness?!"
March 8, 200817 yr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikesma/2306446969/" title="Cincinnati in March by ~Jana~, on Flickr"></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikesma/2310527620/" title="She shimmers at night, our 'Nati by ~Jana~, on Flickr"></a> Cincinnati, March 2, 2008. Nikon d40 with a Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens.
March 8, 200817 yr Beautiful shots! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 8, 200817 yr ^^^Are you the same Jana who responible for the great blog on Hamilton/City of Sculpture: http://cityofsculpture.blogspot.com ?
March 9, 200817 yr one from the wayback machine June 2005... a glorious summer for me... this was taken in Newport, Vermont on the shores of Lake Memphremagog (which is shared with Quebec). This was about a month and a half after I took my first photograph ever... on my first crappy little camera. I always regarded this photo as a beautiful accident. Newport is a very charming town.
March 9, 200817 yr Referring to Chicago: ^ That's a great American City right there. I don't know, I've always thought that Chicago is boring. The topography is bleak, the loop is just full of larger versions of everything in my local mall, and the city has lost a lot of identity in the last decade. I don't think they know what they're about anymore. Every time I go there it feels like they just settled for the "second city" motto.
March 9, 200817 yr Referring to Chicago: ^ That's a great American City right there. I don't know, I've always thought that Chicago is boring. The topography is bleak, the loop is just full of larger versions of everything in my local mall, and the city has lost a lot of identity in the last decade. I don't think they know what they're about anymore. Every time I go there it feels like they just settled for the "second city" motto. I don't get what you're saying, at all. If topography alone were such a big deal, tourists would be flocking to Altoona, PA. For years I've felt the positive energy when walking in the Loop. I just feel energized and optimistic when I'm there, and even when I've had a crappy day and I'm feeling down, stepping onto the street in the Loop picks me right up. The rumble of elevated trains, the large numbers of shoppers, workers and tourists on the sidewalks, the traffic of delivery trucks, buses and taxis, all combine to make the place vibrantly alive. For the most part, people are friendly, and they're helpful to visitors seeking directions. The people who live and work there are proud of their city and most wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Chicago has long been renowned for its architecture. While some of its trophies have been surpassed in size and spectacle by things being built in Asia and the Middle East recently, Chicago has a lot of significant landmarks and enough variety to be visually fascinating. Maybe you should consider anti-depressant meds? :wink:
March 10, 200817 yr Rob... I was planning to go to Chi-town over my spring break but now I'm not.. And you just made it worse for me :-( haha
March 10, 200817 yr Anti-depressants!?! No, I think the problem is that the city is too large for ME. I like visiting places that are proud of a specific niche. To me, places like Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Louisville, Des Moines, Memphis, etc are all WAY more interesting to visit AND live in than larger cities like Chicago, New York, LA, and even Paris. Ugh, Paris bored the hell out of me. The larger cities are so saturated with cultural traditions that they don't stop as a whole city and celebrate their special event. Milwaukee stops every summer weekend to celebrate cultures all across the world earning it the title of City of Festivals. Louisville throws a huge bash every year to celebrate horse racing. Their love of horses is displayed heavily throughout the city. These types of things give the city a cultural identity. I always seem to find that the larger metropolises lose site of these events (for good reasons.) And I believe that it is this shift away from identity that people notice when they say that their cities have lost their "small town feel." They notice their own culture get lost in the chaotic nature of "world culture." Anyway, this is just my opinion and I don't want to start a fight on this thread, so here are my pics of the day. This is a real city: Boy do I love Milwaukee.
March 10, 200817 yr Sorry. I didn't intend to come off insulting or start an argument. I think Chicago and Milwaukee are each great in their own ways. I like Chicago because of its sheer size and variety of neighborhoods and as I mentioned before, the energy that I feel there. On the other hand, I think Milwaukee has it hands-down for some things. The Calatrava wing of the art museum, overlooking the lake, is pretty much unrivalled in this part of the country. The downtown has enough big-city feel to be satisfying, and yet it's fairly compact and eminently walkable. I can arrive there via Amtrak and walk to the downtown attractions easily. Street scene from SSP meet, March 2005 Mitchell Building blew me away
March 10, 200817 yr Thanks for that Rob. I just realized that my response was a little heated too. Anywho, I just posted the rest of Milwaukee pics and a set from Cincy in two other threads. PS-I just looked at your pics from the MKE meet on your site, Rob. Great stuff, but I'm sorry you had to arrive in the old Amtrak station. That place was horrible, but they've merged it with the Greyhound station since then and now it's GREAT. You should definitely come back and check it out.
March 10, 200817 yr Oh yeah, on a side note, there's another equally ornate building by the same architect right next door to the Mitchell Building called the Milwaukee Grain Exchange. That building is where the modern system for trading stocks was developed. (You know, the whole trading "pit" with people shouting and throwing their hands up for bids.) It all started in Milwaukee with the exchange of various grains. Here's a pic of the two buildings next to each other: The pic is from this site: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
March 13, 200817 yr Florida Guy, Where is the building that is shown in your photo from March 8, 2008 located? Thanks, Steve
March 13, 200817 yr ^ Box2565, The building is located in Youngstown. It is on Poland Ave in the former business district near the Center Street Bridge. This area once catered to the steelworkers from Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube.
March 17, 200817 yr Referring to Chicago: ^ That's a great American City right there. I don't know, I've always thought that Chicago is boring. The topography is bleak, the loop is just full of larger versions of everything in my local mall, and the city has lost a lot of identity in the last decade. I don't think they know what they're about anymore. Every time I go there it feels like they just settled for the "second city" motto. I don't get what you're saying, at all. If topography alone were such a big deal, tourists would be flocking to Altoona, PA. For years I've felt the positive energy when walking in the Loop. I just feel energized and optimistic when I'm there, and even when I've had a crappy day and I'm feeling down, stepping onto the street in the Loop picks me right up. The rumble of elevated trains, the large numbers of shoppers, workers and tourists on the sidewalks, the traffic of delivery trucks, buses and taxis, all combine to make the place vibrantly alive. For the most part, people are friendly, and they're helpful to visitors seeking directions. The people who live and work there are proud of their city and most wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Chicago has long been renowned for its architecture. While some of its trophies have been surpassed in size and spectacle by things being built in Asia and the Middle East recently, Chicago has a lot of significant landmarks and enough variety to be visually fascinating. Maybe you should consider anti-depressant meds? :wink: Actually, many people do visit Altoona, PA due to the fusion of topography and engineering genius known as the Horseshoe Curve.
March 17, 200817 yr Referring to Chicago: ^ That's a great American City right there. I don't know, I've always thought that Chicago is boring. The topography is bleak, the loop is just full of larger versions of everything in my local mall, and the city has lost a lot of identity in the last decade. I don't think they know what they're about anymore. Every time I go there it feels like they just settled for the "second city" motto. I don't get what you're saying, at all. If topography alone were such a big deal, tourists would be flocking to Altoona, PA. For years I've felt the positive energy when walking in the Loop. I just feel energized and optimistic when I'm there, and even when I've had a crappy day and I'm feeling down, stepping onto the street in the Loop picks me right up. The rumble of elevated trains, the large numbers of shoppers, workers and tourists on the sidewalks, the traffic of delivery trucks, buses and taxis, all combine to make the place vibrantly alive. For the most part, people are friendly, and they're helpful to visitors seeking directions. The people who live and work there are proud of their city and most wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Chicago has long been renowned for its architecture. While some of its trophies have been surpassed in size and spectacle by things being built in Asia and the Middle East recently, Chicago has a lot of significant landmarks and enough variety to be visually fascinating. Maybe you should consider anti-depressant meds? :wink: Actually, many people do visit Altoona, PA due to the fusion of topography and engineering genius known as the Horseshoe Curve. Yes. I've been to Horseshoe Curve, myself. I stayed beyond the time when they close the visitors' center and chain the parking lot, so I had to move my truck out and park it along the road. All so I could watch one of the last runs of the Broadway Limited (Amtrak version) pass on a full-moon night. I was referring to the charm of the city's urban fabric.
March 24, 200817 yr The 1980’s Cleveland posts got me feeling a bit nostalgic. Pink Floyd opened their 1987 U.S. tour in Cleveland with two sold out shows at CMS. Much to my parents' dismay, I was one of the 150,000 people in attendance. September 16, 1987
March 24, 200817 yr I was there! Excellent show... I actually remember most of it. LMAO!! You and Florida Guy gettin' hazed at CMS! LOL
March 24, 200817 yr :-) Check out the album cover^ "if pigs could fly cleveland would be next door to heaven"??
March 24, 200817 yr Click on the link to see the picture....notice anything weird about the sign? http://www.thesportsroadtrip.com/detroit21.jpg
March 25, 200817 yr It looks new.. Isn't that the stadium that was going to be torn down? Click on the link to see the picture....notice anything weird about the sign? http://www.thesportsroadtrip.com/detroit21.jpg It has a "No Standing" sign, on a sidewalk. Yes, I heard that the old Tiger Stadium was going to be partially torn down, possibly for a condo complex?, but i am not sure about it.
April 2, 200817 yr I know it's dark but this is my first attempt to do a night shot. I took this with a tripod. This is my back yard after a rain storm we had tonight. The highway to the left, Interstate 180, goes into Williamsport. EDIT: Some people were wondering about settings for night shots, so here is the set up I used for this picture. Canon Digital Rebel XTi Aperture: f/3.5 Focal Length: 18.0mm Exposure Time: 6 seconds ISO Equiv.: 400 I had the Iris(aperture) all the way open and it's still pretty dark.
April 4, 200817 yr Nice shot. I like the pastels in the sky, and the hint of detail in the foreground.
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