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[dc_denizen]

great pics, Blade-Runnerish.

[TwasBrillig]

Location name would have been nice in your title. Cool pics though.

[Beedok]

Flar does Hamilton Ontario like 70% of the time, and there's no other city in Canada that quite mixes heavy industry and old brick.

[flar]

Originally Posted by TwasBrillig

Location name would have been nice in your title. Cool pics though.

I like people to look at the photos without any preconceptions. The city name will always come out in the comments.

[Dr Awesomesauce]

Originally Posted by flar

Maybe the photo forum has run its course. I feel less of the sense of adventure we used to have here, catching the feel of cities and seeing new things. I guess we've seen it all.

It does seem that way.

Thanks for bumping these threads back to page 1.

[Ex-Ithacan]

Glad you brought this one back to life. I'm loviin' the blue collar grittiness of this rascal. Thanks flar.

And don't you dare abandon us.

[Austinlee]

The Birmingham of the artic's south.

[rousseau]

Happy to see this thread again. And this, this is fantastic:

Originally Posted by Austinlee

The Birmingham of the artic's south.

Birmingham's too grand a comparison. I think somewhere on these boards we decided that the closest analogue for Hamilton would be Sheffield. Sheffield's also nicknamed the "Steel City," after all.

[rousseau]

This one really shows off Hamilton's similarity to the US midwest in parts of the city. You don't get rows of houses like this in Toronto.

[flar]

I took some of those shots from the roof of Landmark Place, 43 stories above the city. It was something I always wanted to do, so when I learned I would be moving to Ottawa, I decided to arrange a trip to the top of the building. Unfotunately I was sick and it was very windy and cold, so the conditions were not ideal. I also had pretty shitty camera equipment at the time. But there are some amazing views up there.

Here's the full set: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=166449

[harryc]

Very nice wide shots of the industrial areas.

[kznyc2k]

Oh man, the thread title reeeeeeeeled me in, but I ain't gonna be taken alive!!!!!!!!!!!

[flar]

Now that song's stuck in my head. At least I have that opening solo memorized.

[kznyc2k]

Originally Posted by flar

At least I have that opening solo memorized.

I have a photographic memory when it comes to audio if not video, and I'll just go on record as saying I have every note of every part of just about every SD song recorded in my memory banks. It's both super sweet and super depressing, just like every SD ever recorded.

No static at all......

[TinChelseaNYC]

You've got such a great knack for this. Terrific thread!