Your choice: No. 1 coolest/bestest photo on SSP

[Trans Canada]

I often come back to this one-

Originally Posted by thomax

Hamilton Mountain Brow View | May 27, 2016 | toddimages.com

[lio45]

I love this one - seems so... representative. (If I may: the whole photothread is worth a look, though I'm aware that pointing that out is squarely counter to the spirit of this thread)

Originally Posted by streetscaper

[rousseau]

This is a great shot, though the temptation to editorialize on it is pretty obvious. To wit: Babymaking in Europe is so passé that they don't even want to pretend to play at it anymore.



From entheosfog's thread "Entheosfog in Europe: Barcelona Part V - Park Güell/El Raval/Barri Gòtic & More!at" at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=223970.

[lio45]

I found this one pretty cool:

Originally Posted by The Dear Leader

from this thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=224926

[logan5]

Great Manhattan shot. I suppose there will come a time when technology will render profit margins obsolete. Then we can get back to building breathtakingly beautiful skyscrapers. But for now, and probly the next hundred years, no city will come close to achieving what New York City has.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by lio45

I found this one pretty cool:

That is. A similar perspective:

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

http://www.imgrum.net/media/13749024...96761_34144863

From this thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...13#post7637513.

It's a fairly standard photographic trope, this kind of long, leading shot. How about we rustle up a few more to make for a nifty collection in this thread? Anyone game?

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by rousseau

The 403 going up the mountain in Hamilton. Or "mountain" if you're from BC. They really do call it the mountain in Hamilton, even though it really isn't one.


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=176522

By flar, from the standout thread "T H E • M E C H A N I Z E D • H U M • O F • A N O T H E R • W O R L D."

By the way, here's the music that was meant to accompany this photo:

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The cars will start moving at about the 2 minute mark if you stare at the pic intently while listening to this standout Blur B-side from the early 1990s. By the 4-minute mark you'll achieve nirvana. Or at least, a pleasant facsimile.

Though who's to say what is real, and what is a facsimile?*

Sadly, the nirvana only lasts until the end of the song. Turns out nirvana's only temporary. Who knew?


*See what I did there with the punctuation? Of course you didn't. If you had, I wouldn't have had to point it out. Subtlety isn't just a lost art in the Age of Trump, it's dead. It's like, totally wham-bam pining parrot AK-47 to the head dead.

[Brizzy82]

Very cool thread.


A couple of beauty Winnipeg sunsets from over the years that have always stuck out in my mind



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[rousseau]

If I'm making the rules with this thread (and it appears that I am), then let's make it one pic per post.


http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads....20755/page-24

Suburban shopping malls don't normally get urbanists' hearts racing, and the death star effect is compromised without that fourth wing, but this drone shot of the Erin Mills Town Centre is sorta out of this world.

Adding vulgarity to the spacey artiness, like someone popping into this thread to claim that he once got a handjob from his pal's divorced mother in a Chevy Cavalier in this very parking lot on a warm spring day in 1991, well, that would make it all the better.

[matthew6]

I can't think of an individual photo, but that Hamilton urban grit thread by far contains my favourite photos. I'll look it up now.

The only reason why I come to SSP is that it is the only place that I know of on the internet where one can find people interested in discussing urban grit.

Skyscrapers? Meh.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Adding vulgarity to the spacey artiness, like someone popping into this thread to claim that he once got a handjob from his pal's divorced mother in a Chevy Cavalier in this very parking lot on a warm spring day in 1991, well, that would make it all the better.

Fond youthful memories, I gather?

[Brizzy82]

Originally Posted by matthew6

I can't think of an individual photo, but that Hamilton urban grit thread by far contains my favourite photos. I'll look it up now.

The only reason why I come to SSP is that it is the only place that I know of on the internet where one can find people interested in discussing urban grit.

Skyscrapers? Meh.

That Hamilton Grit thread was great.

It's not quite the same but I really like this thread from the Found City Photos forum, Google Maps: Grit, Funny, WTF, Anything Interesting. There's always interesting stuff in there.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Fond youthful memories, I gather?

Naw, just vicarious projection. Trying to be salaciously poetic.

Probably doesn't suit me all that much...

[rousseau]

From the architectural master class series "How to Know You're In Northern Europe and Nowhere Else."


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=226971