I would like to go here, but where exactly was this picture taken from?

 

 

This is from Whiskey Island, no?

I would guess Edgewater

Edgewater

Edgewater.

Western end of Edgewater Park, up the hill from the beach area.

^Agree

This is from Whiskey Island, no?

 

You've lost a lot of Cleveland cred with that guess.  :)

Edgewater

 

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I disagree with all of your guesses. Downtown is too small in those views to be from Edgewater. I think it was taken from Huntington Park in Bay Village and shot on full zoom.

KJP,

 

I respectfully disagree. I run along this route very frequently. This is exactly how downtown looks from the upper portion of Edgewater.

The picture that bizbiz posted is definitely from Edgewater. But the first picture is not. Downtown is much farther away in that first picture.

 

I'm willing to put money down on this.

I think KJP is right.  I did a Google Maps straight line from Huntington Beach to downtown, and the trees that stick out correspond almost perfectly to the "point" in Lakewood.  There is nothing that would look like this between Edgewater and downtown.

Where did this picture come from?  What is the source; was it posted in a photo thread here or found online.

 

My photoshop spidey sense is tingling slightly.

Here's a couple of pics I snapped last fall at Edgewater......

 

 

 

 

Here's a few pictures from Bay Village at varying degrees of zoom....

 

No zoom....

 

 

Medium zoom (I shot this one of Peter Annin, author of a book on the Great Lakes)....

 

 

 

Full zoom....

 

This is from Whiskey Island, no?

 

You've lost a lot of Cleveland cred with that guess.   :)

 

I didn't really have that much to begin with. :-D

^^It would be interesting to see what the Huntington pictures would look like from up above the beach.  Same for Edgewater (like a picture from near the picnic pavilion).

Well shoot... I think KJP is right on this one.  You've convinced me.

 

KJP - 1

Everyone else - 0

KJP for president!

Hey, sometimes all it takes is some photographs to wreck a presidency. So why couldn't some photos be used to create a presidency!!

Where did this picture come from?  What is the source; was it posted in a photo thread here or found online.

 

My photoshop spidey sense is tingling slightly.

 

I got it from  http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/22/america-fit-cities-lifestyle-health-healthy-cities_slide_23.html

 

Who knew we were fitter than chicago and philly. Has anyone been to this exact spot, I would like to go there.

I'm calling shenanigans on the photo then.  Something about it seems off, in particular the elevation of the skyline for theoretically being taken from Bay Village.  Someone Photoshopped in the skyline, added some haze to make it look natural.

keep this thread going with new pictures.  Fun game.

Thread dedicated to the same game

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,9962.0.html

That would be quite the view if it was real, hopefull someone can come across a similar point of view.

I'm not going to copy this guy's photo, but check it out:

 

http://www.pbase.com/freddurr/image/55111164

 

The proportions of downtown look just about right.  I think that photo in this thread was taken from Edgewater Park just behind where this other one was.

 

EDIT: I just did some Photoshopping and it does seem that both photos were taken from nearly the same spot (just one back a little bit from the water).  I scaled both pics to the same size and overlaid them, then played with the opacity.  The angle of the buiuldings matches yup perfectly, and the trees from Edgewater's eastern half (looking to be about halfway between the photographer and downtown) line up perfectly as well.

I used to live down the road from Huntington Beach, and it can't be taken from there. The portions of the park above the beach, where bike paths and trees are, runs east west, so you would be looking out over the water.. Any shots of Cleveland from Huntington have to be taken right at the top of the hill, or down on the beach, there are too many trees to get a good shot from the bike path area and grassy areas and east to Cleveland.

 

The shot looks to be from Edgewater, on the west end. There is a row of trees that look just like that, picnic bench, and meandering bike path.

 

Here's a pic I took from Edgewater, just in front and to the left of where the questioned photo was most likely taken.

 

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/sfMjO4xf3xxpdaw_dqq28g?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_75x415SPeu8/SBv6np4lALI/AAAAAAAABWo/IYIGjA7dii0/s800/Dscn2276.JPG" /></a>

 

One from Huntington..

 

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bA81aKyFPatic2l2fLm8Lw?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_75x415SPeu8/SBv8Vp4lBaI/AAAAAAAABgs/DAaOF8j3v0Y/s800/Dscn2484.JPG" /></a>

 

And one I'll let somebody guess at.. (I know, easy..)

 

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/zs2RKIVKSSELtens-LG-yQ?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_75x415SPeu8/SBv6mp4lAKI/AAAAAAAABWg/Ysfcdn-W72g/s800/Dscn2273.JPG" /></a>

Here's one I took from Avon Lake, no zoom, but you can see the city just left of center, where the trees seem to abruptly end in the distance. It's as far west as you can get and still see Cleveland (I actually watched fireworks from here after the Brown's opening game when they returned). From the other end of Avon Lake you are looking out west from the coastline, towards Lorain. From Lorain you can see out to Cedar Point. I know Chris has some good shots of CP from Lorain.

 

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/fHVugwldejeLc96M6Ut9aw?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_75x415SPeu8/SBv6L54k_4I/AAAAAAAABUM/cKqNDnK0ygw/s800/112_112.JPG" /></a>

 

 

I think Clevelumbus  is our winner. Everything seems to be in the correct places.

I simply can not vote because it is very open to being either Huntington OR Edgewater!! My picture was taken by me at Edgewater on a 300mm zoom of downtown. The first pic could be almost the same spot on a different zoom. The first pic in this thread looks like Edgewater, especially the trail, which I don't recall at Hungtington. There is also a park or two in Rocky River and Bay Village area with a similar setup.

I was just at both Edgewater and Huntington yesterday (only PARTLY inspired by this thread, I was going to Huntington anyways) and I am about 99.99999% sure I was standing at the exact spot this photo was taken from.  The funny thing is that there was a guy taking down a big tripod and fancy camera from this spot.  Maybe he was from Forbes? :)

You forgot to say which spot the photo was taken from?

Ha, it was part of the suspense. :)

 

J/K I had it in my mind to put it in and must have forgotten to type it. The spot was at Edgewater Park, not too far east of the entrance off of Cliff Drive/West Blvd.

Wow with the collective investigative skill and determination to solve a photo location, you could all form a private photo detective unit.  UO PPI    Urban Ohio Private Photo Investigators.  :-D

 

Wow with the collective investigative skill and determination to solve a photo location, you could all form a private photo detective unit.  UO PPI    Urban Ohio Private Photo Investigators.  :-D

 

 

^Magnum should be wearing a Tribe hat, no?  :-P

Wow with the collective investigative skill and determination to solve a photo location, you could all form a private photo detective unit.  UO PPI    Urban Ohio Private Photo Investigators.  :-D

 

 

^Magnum should be wearing a Tribe hat, no?  :-P

 

How is this?

 

Ha, it was part of the suspense. :)

 

J/K I had it in my mind to put it in and must have forgotten to type it. The spot was at Edgewater Park, not too far east of the entrance off of Cliff Drive/West Blvd.

 

 

I concur.