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The reason I posted 2 links was to make clear where I was. Harbor Cam is 150 feet to my left, Hy-Line camera is 150 feet to my right. The others are miles away. 2 are near the 2 automotive bridges to Cape Cod over the canal (Sagamore Bridge and Bourne Bridge). Commercial Street is the end of Cape Cod in Provincetown, it the winter 3,500 people, nothing happens on camera, in summer 35,000 people, Provincetown needs a lot of explaining. A LOT! Landfall is near the auto ferry to Martha's Vinyard island. Captain Parker's is on top of a restaurant (GREAT clam chowder and seafood), Beachcomber is on a beach bar, Chatham Inn never seems to work.
Basil, gRomoZeka & Zayaa!!!!
Because of you three, we now know what horse chestnut tress are AND look like!!!! :yahoo:Quote:
Originally Posted by Artemis Fowl, "The Time Paradox", Prologue
Не поскажешь, Castle in Charlevoix, Michigan это городок, концертная площадка или что-то другое? И как это Charlevoix можно написать по-русски? =)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lampada
Спс!
Шарлевуа.Quote:
Originally Posted by BappaBa
http://www.castlefarms.com/about-us/Quote:
Originally Posted by BappaBa
The original photos were frightening because of the perspective? Meaning you took them from high above? I know I'd be hesitant to stand up there and take that shot..
Yes, you get it right.Quote:
Originally Posted by MJenkens
I didn't take them. I just posted a link to the blog of the girl who took them. To stand up and take a shot is one thing. And imagine how is to climb up a 250 meters-high rusty deserted mast by a rusty ladder during several hours and then to climb down. :wink: I'm too old for such things already.Quote:
Meaning you took them from high above? I know I'd be hesitant to stand up there and take that shot..
Basil, what happened to the picture of the electrical pylons that you climbed in as a child? I got very curious what they looked like ----- but I could not see the picture?
I too used to climb in them! (it's VERY unhealthy - they ought to be fenced off actually... people get sick from being close to them for long periods... Children should not be allowed to play on them.. )
But was it something like this? Or something more scary looking?
http://www.grefsenterrassehus.no/ima...060601_800.jpg
Johanna, I know you asked Basil, yet it has been a couple of days and he has not responded, so maybe he is away and hopefully he will not mind me helping you out? The link to the photos is here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johanna
Also... as I have begged of others....pleeaaseee, would you post some photos of where you grew up and where you are now???? :rose:
This is my city nowdays: viewtopic.php?f=41&t=16565Quote:
Originally Posted by rockzmom
But Lampada, your profile says that you are from the United States?
Do you mean that you grew up in Kiev but now you live in the US?
Anyway - Kiev looks great! I didn't know it was so elegant!
I'd love to travel there when I can speak a bit better Russian.
Rockzmom - I can't see the pics of your city? hese threads are so long!
Ok here it goes: My home city is Stockholm although I come from an island east of the city. The great thing about Stockholm is that it is built on lots of different islands that are connected by bridges. So you are constantly near the water. Stockholm is the biggest city in Sweden and has about 1 million inhabitants. (Russians and Americans, don't laugh! That's quite big enough!)
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This one is only TWO pages and most of it is photos!!! It is not so bad :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Johanna
On page 1 there are photos of where I grew up and of where I live now.
Oh, thank you!! These are great photos!!! I love being near water, so I would feel right at home in Stockholm!Quote:
Originally Posted by Johanna
Lampada, the nighttime photos of Kiev are fantastic as well. Thank you for the link!!! We need one from your window of the lake with all the boats out on the sparkling water right now. :bravo:
Oops I'm too lazy!Quote:
This one is only TWO pages and most of it is photos!!! It is not so bad :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by rockzmom
On page 1 there are photos of where I grew up and of where I live now.
I didn't see the first page... Your town seems great. And I had no idea Maryland was a Southern State!
I thought it was... erm a Northern state (?)
I have probably never met anybody from Maryland! The only Americans I meet are from California or New York, it seems... And guess what? I have never been to the US! But I'd like to visit...
LONG Posting... and all in ENGLISH...I know... :sorry:
Maryland is a tricky state! Even during our Civil War, our own state could not decide if it should be Southern or Northern!Quote:
Originally Posted by Johanna
And the turning point in that war was in Maryland at Antietam Creek and due to the Union wining the Battle of Antietam, then President Lincoln gave his famous Emancipation Proclamation provided a legal framework for the emancipation slaves.Quote:
The tobacco counties of southern Maryland and the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay were secessionist. The grain-growing counties of northern and western Maryland, containing few slaves, were safe for the Union.
Today, there are parts of Maryland like Chevy Chase and Potomac, which are very wealthy and cosmopolitan and have a very much Northern feel to them. You would never catch someone from there saying "ya' all" or "listen up."
Then you drive for a little ways from there and reach farming towns where they are driving pickup trucks and go hun'in' (notice no "t" or "g"in that word) on the weekends. They don't get invited to any of the parties in Chevy Chase or Potomac, nor do they usually have membership to the country clubs, unless it is the "redneck yatch club!"
Drive a little farther and you hit the Chesapeake Bay (it is the largest estuary in the U.S.) where we have a big crabbing industry and then drive about two or three more hours and you hit Ocean City Beach on the Atlantic Ocean.
We also have the U.S. Naval Accademy in Annapolis and the big Port of Baltimore (where they pronounce words little "water" very differently than the rest of the U.S.!). Maryland is also home to the National Institues of Health and right next to that (on the same street) is the National Naval Medical Center.
And for all you gamers out there, Maryland is home to ZeniMax, parent company of Bethsda Softworks. Maker of Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, and soon... Knights of Nine!
So, we have a real mixture of people here. A number of people live here or in Virginia and work in Washington as the public school system in Washington is not very good. Yet, Washington has all the Smithsonian Musuems which are FREE and a number of theaters like the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Yet, Maryland (and not far from where I live) is home to the American Film Institute and the corporate offices for Discovery Channel!
As you can see from this LONG posting, we have a lot of things to do here or very close to here and from New York we are about a 4 hour drive!Quote:
Originally Posted by Johanna
Snow and lights are magnificent and charming. I want to live here. In this small luxuriously splendid town!Quote:
Originally Posted by Johanna
Yeah, I live in Evil empire! :evil:
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Okay BappaBa, you win for best photo and quote of the month! :good:Quote:
Originally Posted by BappaBa
Rockzmom, thanks a lot! :yahoo:Quote:
Originally Posted by rockzmom
Just so you know how much it is liked in our household... I showed it to my girls and they both are demanding it for their wallpaper on their cellphones!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BappaBa
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Oh no! That must be a new dangerous Russian weapon! =@ :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by BappaBa
Controlled by:
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Help!!! Call NATO!!!!
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@Coffeecup
Thanks for the nice compliment about my city! Yeah, I love it -- because of all the water mainly. It is much nicer than London. Stockholm has more nature, trees, wildlife, parks.
If you come by while I'm in Stockholm, I'll take you on a tour + dinner and drinks! :beer:
However, there is an ugly side to Stockholm, in some suburbs. It is the result of a government plan. The government decided to build 1 million new Swedish homes in 10 years, to solve housing problems in the 1960s. The plan was met... but the houses are a bit ugly. See below. (In the front is a Stockholm metro train.)
http://medlem.spray.se/slfotonorrort...arsta_2005.jpg
They also decided to get rid of some old houses because they were 'un-hygenic' and not modern.
So,the nice very old houses were demolished and people were moved to these ugly new houses...
Next they decided that central Stockholm needed some American-style scyscrapers and a USSR-inspired "House of Culture".
So they demolished some more nice old houses in the city-centre, to build these quite ugly buildings which nobody really wanted! The skyscrapers were ugly and most people had no idea what the enormous "House of Culture" was actually supposed to be used for.
(A part of Stockholm's House of Culture)
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(Stockholms completely un-necessary "skyscrapers"... Not so high! )
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Let's see some picture from Novosibirsk and other Russian cities!
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Johanna! Thanks for the invitation!
Now it's my turn to show my city Novosibirsk. All the images except one I've found with the use of Google Maps with Photos. Unfortunately there is no "Street View" mode in the Google Maps for Novosibirsk.
The first one is the visiting card of Novosibirsk: "Novosibirsk's Opera and Ballet Theater". This theater was built up from late 30th to begin 40th. The opening show was held on May 12th 1945, only three days after the World War II. The construction includes the unique dome, which is a half of a sphere with a diameter being 60 meters, made of concrete (!!!) without any supporting girders or columns. The image I've selected because of lights and snow doesn't show the dome totally, if you follow the Wikipedia link above you'll see it from an aerial view, it's really impressive.
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5486/mrccopera.jpg
Novosibirsk is divided by a river for two parts. The river waist is about 1 km. Here you can see two bridges. One in the front is for cars and another behind for the underground trains.
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Having such a river and do not using it for getting electricity is wasting money. Yeah, we have some hydro electric power plant.
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Here is some great night view. The horizontal row of lights crossing the image top from left to right is the bridge you've seen above.
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5925/mrccbs.jpg
I've shown you so many images but you haven't seen the city yet. Here it is.
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2...cityaerial.jpg
The one more point of interest is the Zoo. Here is my shot. What animal are you see on the image? ... A tiger? No! It's a liger. And we do have it in our zoo. Probably it's the only liger in Russia.
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/8544/mrccliger.jpg
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Originally Posted by Johanna
Rockzmom, you were right, I was away, at Ukraine actually (once again in this thread :D ).Quote:
Originally Posted by rockzmom
Johanna can you see the photos now? If you don't I can repost them from that blog to the forum directly. And as I wrote above it's not the electrical pylons, they are radio signal retranslator pylons, they are much higher (more than 200 meters), and were much more unhealthy than they were functioning (nowdays satellites used instead of them). Imagine today's cell phone pylons but much more high and powerful.
=) Someone was shooting a movie scene near my house last summer. =)
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I can't believe how NEW Novosibirsk looks!
It looks almost American with the wide roads, skyscrapers etc.
And then your explanation that the (very elegant) ballet and opera house is only 70 year old!
What's the river called that it's on?
What's the history of Novosibirsk? Perhaps it's quite a new city?
Another question: Is Novosibirsk near the little town of "Akademgorodok"?
I read about that town in a blog post and it sounded fascinating.. I think it was mentioned that it was not far from Novosibirsk.
ОЙ! Мой дом на фотке! Под самой правой из трех толстых молний. Я в опасности!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by BappaBa
My house is under the right big light. I'm in danger?!
I've browsed entire this topic. It's rather interesting.
Now I know where BappaBa live!
From the pictures in the message
viewtopic.php?p=211129#p211129
I establish coodinates :-):
55.978217,37.191478
корпус 803, наверно второй подъезд с краю, этаж 5.
I also saw the same air parade from my window:
http://content.foto.mail.ru/mail/wow...0509/i-107.jpg
http://foto.mail.ru/mail/wowik/Parad20090509
Раньше я любил говаривать: "А из нашего окна площадь Юности видна", теперь переехал.Quote:
Originally Posted by BappaBa
No, it isn't!Quote:
Originally Posted by Johanna
The little town of "Akademgorodok" is near Novosibirsk ;-)
Novosibirsk was founded as a railway station (near new railway bridge crossing the great river of Ob) in 1893 on the place of the old big village.
Akademgorodok was constructed about 30 km south of the city center in 1957.
You are the pathfinder! =)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wowik
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Originally Posted by Johanna
It is no use to state what is near what. Actually Akademgorodok is just a remote administrative part of Novosibirsk :) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Wowik
Wowik have provided some good links to the history pages. Akademgorodok is the place where science lives in Novosibirsk. Many scientific institutes along with the Novosibirsk State University are located in Akademgorodok. Here is some aerial view.
http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/6...mfromabove.jpg
Most buildings you can see here are some scientific institutes. Just in the center I can recognize the Institute of Automatics and Electrometry and the Institute of Cytology and Genetics. To the left of them there are the Institute of Mathematics and the Institute of Geology. To the right of the road there are the Institute of Organic Chemistry and the Institute of Catalysis.
As you can see Akademgorodok is ingrained to a forest. This makes Akademgorodok to be one of the most beautiful places.
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/1429/mrccagw.jpg . . . . . http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/4324/mrccag1.jpg
You might be the evil empire, but Montauk, New York, even at the end of summer can be pretty cold. These photos were taken on Friday afternoon around 4pm during what was left of the storm surge from Tropical Storm Danny.
Our fisherman is wearing a wet suit (maybe you Russian's would wear shorts?)
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/52cd71b8.jpg
Montauk Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse in New York and is the 4th oldest active lighthouse in the U.S. It began operations in 1797.
Great photos rockzmom! Thanks for sharing them.
Your girls are gorgeous both of them!!
Thanks also Coffeecup for the info about Novisibirsk and Akademgorodok.
I love the bit about the town being integrated with the forest, as you put it.
That's exactly how I want to live - integrated in nature.
If I ever go for a term to Russia to study the language I'll seriously check for courses in this area because I don't like very big cities too much... 1 million is my upper limit really.... [/i] So WHAT am I doing in London, this urban jungle / dump... :wall: [/i]
Just made these shots out of my window. There's been an incredible sunset, but alas, my camera is too old and not too good to begin with to capture the color of the sky. I've made 16 shots. Here are the best ones:
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Ramil! You have been holding out on us!!! :shock: What an amazing view you have. You and Lampada might have a tie for the best views from their windows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramil
You must take a photo during the daytime for us, unless you fear Wowik will figure out your loaction and stalk you.
Everything comes at a price. You can note that the traffic is heavy (the same goes on below even now - tomorrow children are going to schools so everything must be prepared). The noise and the smell are rather irritating.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockzmom
I think it's a little bit too late. He can already deduce it now I think. But don't worry. We can always get ourselves roaring drunk even if he finds me. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by rockzmom