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Nice photo tour of the homes facing Lafayette Park, by Serhii Chrucky:
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That is nice. He's got some other incredible stuff on his site, too. The photos of the St. John's Abbey church are stunning. Seems his site is well worth wandering around a while and taking in.
^ These are incredible. Thanks for posting! I might have to take my camera down to Benton Park and Soulard this weekend and capture something similar. It's amazing how much wider range a dSLR has than a cell phone camera (image quality aside).
Also, since we're here, here's one of my favorites that I've taken. Yes, coincidentally this file name is actually DSC_0314
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DSC_0314 by Alex Price, on Flickr
Also, since we're here, here's one of my favorites that I've taken. Yes, coincidentally this file name is actually DSC_0314
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^ great shot... look forward to seeing more!
thanks for resurrecting this thread!framer wrote: ↑Mar 23, 2018Nice photo tour of the homes facing Lafayette Park, by Serhii Chrucky:
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That's a great shot Aprice. 
Love it! Looking forward to more. I hope the park trips are productive.
I'm inclined to think cell phone cameras and DSLRs each have strengths and weaknesses. I shoot a bit more with the SLR still, but maybe not by much anymore. The biggest differences might be focal length and aperture anymore. If I had a decent wide angle lens for my SLR . . . (Or a good telephoto for my phone.) And of course there's a wide range in both quality and price to both. (Might be a somewhat bigger range to quality on the phone side, but there's sure a bigger range to price on the SLR side. I just need to quit looking at eBay.) But in the end, it's mostly what you do with it. My best shot with my cheapest camera is worlds better than my worst (in focus and properly exposed) shot with my best.
Love it! Looking forward to more. I hope the park trips are productive.I'm inclined to think cell phone cameras and DSLRs each have strengths and weaknesses. I shoot a bit more with the SLR still, but maybe not by much anymore. The biggest differences might be focal length and aperture anymore. If I had a decent wide angle lens for my SLR . . . (Or a good telephoto for my phone.) And of course there's a wide range in both quality and price to both. (Might be a somewhat bigger range to quality on the phone side, but there's sure a bigger range to price on the SLR side. I just need to quit looking at eBay.) But in the end, it's mostly what you do with it. My best shot with my cheapest camera is worlds better than my worst (in focus and properly exposed) shot with my best.
So I got to do some exploring around MoBot in the snow yesterday. If you've not been, give it a shot - it's an entirely different type of beatiful - a great way to see something familiar in a new light.
These are just from the mobile phone and there's been absolutely zero post-processing. I do have some camera shots as well but haven't been able to upload any of those yet.
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I never realized that it's a straight shot from the south entrance of the Linnean House to the front door of the Tower Grove house. (Digitally-zoomed-in) proof:
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If I get any good shots out of the camera I'll post them here as a follow up.
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These are just from the mobile phone and there's been absolutely zero post-processing. I do have some camera shots as well but haven't been able to upload any of those yet.
I never realized that it's a straight shot from the south entrance of the Linnean House to the front door of the Tower Grove house. (Digitally-zoomed-in) proof:
If I get any good shots out of the camera I'll post them here as a follow up.
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Lovely stuff! And yeah, it really is a straight shot. And I expect that's no accident. I believe all the major landscaping elements in that vista date to Shaw's life, save the lilly ponds. Which replaced earlier gardens or ponds along the more or less verbatim. Not completely certain about the rose garden, but it is the older and more traditional of the two. (And that certainly feels like an element of Victorian landscaping.)
Anyway, thank you!
Anyway, thank you!
A skyline photo that I took from the 1322 Dolman building earlier today (more coming on that later). The cranes look good in the picture.
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Realtor Ted Wight has this very cool shot on his website:
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Midtown and Downtown from Microsoft's 5th Floor office at 4220 Duncan
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And the view West...
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And the view West...
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I don’t think you posted the correct photo. It isn’t popping up for me.framer wrote:Found this pic on a real estate listing and thought it was pretty cool:
^ That first photo, Chris. So much infill potential. Man oh man. Wonder what would happen if Cortex really started to encourage Metro ridership instead of all of the garage building. At least bury the stuff.
Electrical substation at 1711 Locust and the Telephone exchange at Locust and Beaumont. And the URV (Urban Reconnaissance Vehicle)!
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^I confess, I do like that power plant. And it's always hard to argue with the Arcade.
It's only tangentally St. Lous-based, but got some shots of Saturday's storm rolling in:
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Brain drain from the abortion ban already?framer wrote: Spotted at one of Wash U's Grad Student housing units:
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(Leeharvey probably has some hot-take as to why us "round earthers" are just falling for what "they" want us to believe)
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^I'm guessing it's actually parody in this case. Not to say that there aren't real flat earthers out there, but I don't suspect the grad student in that corner was one of them. Usually that phrasing is a part of a memetic argument against the postulate presented. Which is often more obvious from graphical content online, and maybe a little lost here, since text alone lacks a certain dimensionality. You might argue that this students meme was a little . . . flat. *ducks*