This one was a fun shot to take.Top of Carew Tower

This shot can be a scary one, because you have to hold you camera over the rail a little bit in order to get the shot.  There is always a little bit of a breeze, and that lurking thought that you might slip up and drop the thing.  You are brave. :-D

Haha..I hate heights too. Was even worse though because at the time I was using a canon point and shoot with a narrow lens. So I had to do this in 3 shots then stitch them together. I hadn't been up there since Junior High.

I think I'm gonna be sick... ughhhhh

nice job.

 

what kind of photo stitch program do you have? i have one called 'panoramamaker 3,' but i havent used it much.

Anyone knows what the green structure at the top represents or is used for?

The PNC building was the tallest building outside of NYC when it was built in 1913, and the 5th tallest in the world. Interestingly, the capital portion of the building (columns + pyramid) is designed after one of the 7 wonders of the world (the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus).

 

 

    There is a smokestack hidden inside that green structure.

 

    Also, there used to be a pyramid on top of the green structure, making the skyscraper 5 feet taller.

Wow, a plethora of historic info that I am too lazy to find on my own . Gotta love forums. I never knew about the torch,or the pyramid,or that it was modeled after another structure. Neat stuff..

 

@mrnyc

nice job.

what kind of photo stitch program do you have? i have one called 'panoramamaker 3,' but i havent used it much.

 

I tried just about every one for Pc and Mac and Linux over the years. I finally settled on one called Autostitch that was made at the AI lab at University of Berkley California. Took sum digging to find,. But it's free. Dead simple,and 99% of the time does a great job. But occasionally you get a treat like this,

Link http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

 

 

Thanks for comments everyone.

^---Correct. It was a pyramid which brought PNC up to 505 feet. Not sure why they removed it. So Cincinnati once had 2 500+ footers! ;-)

That shot is bad ass!!!!   

 

Def. one of my all time fav. buildings....

 

I found this postcard on cincinnativiews (http://www.cincinnativiews.net) which clearly shows the small pyramid at the very top of the capital. You guys were right!

 

 

    There is a smokestack hidden inside that green structure.

 

    Also, there used to be a pyramid on top of the green structure, making the skyscraper 5 feet taller.

 

There is? Why is there a smokestack there?